what is best for toddlers? Butter? Spread? Confused!

[cathyspam]

Was just wonder what is best to be putting on my 2 year old's sandwiches. Butter? Unsalted butter? Olive spread? other typre of spread? There is so much out there!

I'd go for butter to avoid hydrogenated veg oils.

And because I hate the taste of "spreads"

another vote for butter here. Can't see the point of spreads!

I use unsalted butter, but that's really just because I like the taste of it best and can't be bothered to buy different things for each member of the family, I've never really thought about which one is best for ds.

i have been giving him butter but should I be using the unsalted variety?

You can get organic, unhydrogenated dairy free spreads. I think those are the healthiest of the artificial spreads.

I think a small amount of butter is fine, unsalted is obviously going to be healthier.

The other alternative is not to use spreads at all - you don't really need them if you have nice fresh bread, or use fillings like hummus, cream cheese etc. instead.

We rarely have butter on anyhting theses days. But if I do use anything I use Organic unsalted butter from Sainsburys.

Lurpak in our house. Nothing wrong with a bit of butter. It's used so sparingly anyway.

We used to be a butter household, but have moved to Olive oil spread. DH and I have both lost a little weight (this may be incidental). I think that the important thing is to avoid the hydrogenated oil. Olivio doesn't have this in.

butter. unsalted and organic. i use yeo valley brand.

dd1 is skinny as a whippet - she needs all the fat she can get.

What you spread on your bread etc makes up such a small part of your diet that it shouldn't be a huge worry.

Ingrediants of olivio:
Rapesee oil
WaterWheyVegetable oils
Skimmed milk
0.9% salt
emulsifier
mono and DI Glycerides (E47)
preservative
potassium sorbate (E202) Thickener
sodium Alginate(E401)
Citric Acid(E330)
VitaminE

Ingredients of Lurpack:
High pasteurised cream, lactic culture, and salt
Flavouring
Vitamins A ANd D
Colour
Natural Carotenes (E160a)

Lurpak unsalted or Flora proactive if can't be bothered softening the butter - agree it's in such small quantities anyway not worth getting worried about.

Lurpak or Anchor lighter spreadable. Don't like margarine at all.

I make my own spreadable butter using organic butter mixed with olive oil after reading a thread on mumsnet about the omegas 3 and 6 in relation to spreadable butters (can't remember who it was as I had just joined, but she was very knowledgeable on the subject!)

It sits next to the primula cheese spread in the fridge, so don't get any odd ideas about me being a health freak.

here you go... it was Mothernature

Her posts were really interesting

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I do like a bit of unsubstantiated claptrap every now and then though.

You have the eyes of a sh*t house rat Pruni - I didn't even see those points that were made! (By the way, for avoidance of doubt, that's not an insult )

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