Butter or spread?

[northerner]

I'm really confused as to which is best.

Butter which is a natural product but very high in fat or a spread such as olivio or flora which is low in fat but full of horrible ingredients and E numbers.

Discuss.

Might switch back to butter now.

We use organic spreadable, which is butter + some oil, I think, to make it spreadable.

And regular butter for cooking, of course.

Butter - definitely - spreads are full of horrid transfats etc which are really not good for you (plus they don't taste as nice as butter . As long as you don't spread the butter too thick it's fine. I would go for natural every time.

unsalted butter every time

lurpak

Butter. No doubt about it.

The amount you spread on your toast/sanwiches is such a tiny part of your diet that it makes very little difference healthwise what you choose provided the rest of your diet isn't heavy in saturated fats.

And spreads taste foul.

Butter. Toast just isn't the same without it.

And I don't buy the spreadable butters as a friend, who was a herdsman, said they had to give the cows some sort of feed to change their milk so it could be made into spreadable butter.

Butter in this house. Remember (vaguely) studying the chemistry involved in the production of margarine at A-level and I haven't (knowingly) touched it since.

Butter - but the spreadable stuff. Can't bear anything else.

Butter. Unsalted Lurpak or spreadable President. Never put it in teh fridge anyway once started using it so always spreadable

butter, buggered if I'm eating something that even flies won't touch (margarine/spreads)
having said that am on lower fat food now and do not indulge at all now...

Countess, and anyone else who's interested, I buy Sainsbury's organic olive spread and the ingredients are: organic vegetable oils, water, organic extra virgin olive oil, salt, organic concentrated carrot juice (eh? why?). emulsifirt: soya lecitin, vitamins a and d. Looks fine to me, I don't eat butter because milk/butter brings my skin out in a rash. I can't see the problem with those ingredients, there's no e nos, no hydrogenated fat. (I just know someone will come and tell me it's crap now!)

Water? That's so bad for you

Unsalted Lurpak.

Due to a previous thread of this nature explaining the evil of Trans fatty acids I switched from low fat spreads to Lurpak! So I blame all you lot for my fat a*rse.

www - glad you posted that - I buy Bertolli (olivio) for me and dh and butter for the kids and I'm sure that Bertolli doesn't have hydrogenated stuff in it, but have run out so can't check the packet.

ha ha Tinks!

Hmm, spreadable President? I've never come across it. I'd buy spreadable if I could find it unsalted, but I never can.

www - the carrot will be there as a natural food colour.

yes I get spreadable president sometimes. Waitrose sell it

Butter! Butter! Butter!
Why defile yourself with all that other crap?
What IS the point???
As for bloody Olivio. Well, if you want the taste of olive oil, just pour a bit in a saucer FGS!

(Er, sorry about that.......it's been an odd day.)

spreadable butter

Tautology surely???
(As opposed to what? Unspreadable butter?!)

Morrisons do spreadable President as well.

Moondog - Spreadable butter spreads straight from the fridge... it has more oil in it to make it softer.

My MY you're sarcastic today!!!