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.

Yes..sorry!!!
Just have a bit of a thing about products that masquerade as others.
Still don't know that it's so difficut to remember to pull it out of the fridge a bit earlier.
if I want oil, I but oil,if I want bu.....

(What AM I doing, concerning myself with this stuff??!!)

Don't put it in teh fridge in teh first place

I've got a butter dish with a sort of funnel in the lid. You can pour hot water in it to soften the butter in the tub. I got it in a charity shop but I think it's Lakeland.

Tinker - Doesn't it go off really quickly if you don't refridgerate it?? We buy it in massive tubs that last us maybe 2 or 3 weeks. Can't see it lasting that time sitting on my kitchen unit with the Tumble Dryer on the go!

i never put the butter in the fridge (dp does sometimes & it really irritates me...). just stick it in the butter dish & keep it out. spreads perfectly then.

Butter every time (unless baking)

But Hoxtonchick... how many days will it last out of the fridge???? We buy in bulk.

Don't put it in teh fridge once I've started using it (keep unopened in fridge) One pack lasts a week? Doesn't go off if in a butter dish.

Oh boy, I'm gonna get shot here.....

I buy Vitalite. And all of us, ds included, eat it.

Although I actually prefer the taste of butter, but if I have it in the house I put it on everything.

butter. don't know what's in the spreads, but if you read the packet it sounds vile.Butter has a nicer taste and ok if you have a small ammount. olive oil for cooking though.

hoxtonchick - Which brand do you buy, as I've tried a few and they don't spread even at room temperature.

Have to use butter because of nuts in spreads and marg's.

didn't meant to offend you toothache!

i'm not loyal to 1 particular brand furball. have sainsbury's own salted version at the moment, president in the fridge waiting. i guess it depends how cold your kitchen is. ours doesn't have heating, but the boiler is right next to it so it's quite toasty.

Looked at the ingredients in Spreadable Yeo Valley Butter today - butter, oil, water, salt. I'm ok with that.

It is weird this thread appeared today

I was going to ask the same question

I have Anchor butter the real original stuff

DH has Flora cos he likes it

And I cannot be fooled by sneaking marg on my toast or roll can taste the difference a mile off

It is in sealed box and on counter

And it spreads brill