Ok, so I have been using Imperial butter all my life. I only use it for my kids food, cakes, and other stuff that calls for butter. I mostly use spray butter, but Imperial is for all other stuff. I guess I'm just now realizing that it is vegetable oil, and not butter, so I want something to replace it with, since this isn't really good for you. I want something that still has the good buttery flavor, and that is good for baking as well. It doesn't matter if it's fattening, as most butter is, because I don't use it on everything. I just don't want to continue using what am, now knowing that it's not all that good for you. Please help! :-)
I use regular salted butter. I haven't noticed a difference between brands and typically end up using the generic, most of the time Walmart because it's the cheapest. However, there is a big difference in flavor between salted butter and unsalted butter.
Butter is actually the best thing. All that other junk is just junk.
Why not just use butter? Real butter?
I use Moove over butter.
It's VERY good really creamy, kinda sweet.
I find it at walmart
Real organic Butter is the best tasting and the healthiest for us. Margarine, Like Imperial and other brands are made with Non Natural Ingredients and they lack one ingredient of being plastic yes plastic. You can set out side whatever brand you are using and the flies won't even land on it! That is just not right. Butter has a rich taste and a lot more flavor then all of the non butter sprays and spreads so you can use less, save calories and still have the taste. Wy not just use Butter? You are right Imperial just isn't good for us. PS the only silly question is the one you don't ask. Hope this helps.
I just buy real butter.
Just use real butter. It's a real food, it contains vitamins and other nutrients and is not manufactured from vegetable oil that's been highly processed. I use Land O Lakes Spreadable Butter with Canola Oil for things like toast and bagels because it's easy to spread straight from the fridge. For cooking and baking, I use unsalted sticks of butter, whatever is cheapest - usually the store brand but sometimes I'll get LOL or Cabot if it's on sale and I have a coupon.
You will notice a difference in your baking, particularly with cookies. They will have a different texture, and it's actually the texture they're supposed to have if the recipe calls for butter. If you make butter-based frosting, it will taste even better now! For cakes and muffins and other things, you probably won't notice a difference. I made a recipe recently that specifically called for margarine so I used it an it tasted so gross (like chemicals) that I will never make it again. Real butter has a different flavor than "buttery flavored spread" but once you get used to it, you'll never go back.
I agree, just use butter. I can't stand margarine, and won't buy it ever. Butter is real food, and you will notice a difference in your cooking and baking. I would get rid of your spray "butter" as well, since that is margarine also.
I just use Great Value Butter from walmart, it's awesome :)
Imperial is margarine not butter. I use butter. If you want something buttery butter is the way to go not margarine. Lately I've been using the spreadable butter with either canola or olive oil in it to make it spreadable. I believe that the manmade stuff is more dangerous than the natural. Butter is simple and basic and I believe our bodies metabolize it fine, but with all things MODERATION is key.
Yes I vote for real butter!! I do use margarine ocassionally for grilled cheese sandwiches and greasing pans b/c it is so easy to spread, but for all other cooking and baking I use the real stuff. I'd rather have a little bit of the good tasting stuff than more of the yucky stuff. Organic butter does taste better for sure, but it is so expensive! I was buying it at Costco and it was cheaper but I tried to reevaluate my budget, and sadly I let it go, for now anyway! I still buy non organic butter at Costco and it's a lot less expensive!
I love using real butter.
I'm addicted to it on popcorn but I try not to indulge myself too often.
Use real butter. The only ingredients are cream and (sometimes) salt. MUCH better for you than something with 20 ingredients that you can't even pronounce!
I just use real butter. I am wary of anything "fake".
I use the store brand salted sweet cream butter...when I'm feeling 'rich' (lol) or it's on sale, I buy Land O Lakes :)
Yes - real butter. We made the switch a couple of years ago. You can safely keep it at room temp also. We eat toast and bagels almost everyday with breakfast. I keep a small glass bowl container in my bread cupboard with about 1/2 stick for the week's use. The rest, I keep in the fridge. This is the way my mom, Granny and Great Granny have all done it. Just make sure it has a lid on it, and only keep out what you think you will use in a week's time. This way you don't have to mess around with buying separate "spreadable" kinds. Enjoy!
I LOVE Land O Lakes butter....salted or unsalted!! prefer that over margarine ANY DAY!!!
Land O Lakes has a spreadable butter as well.
I use Smart Balance original with Flax, it's the healthy alternative for margarine. The lite versions need a higher temp for melting, so I prefer the original even though it is a little higher in calorie, it's a great margarine, and it does bake well too, I will use it if I don't have regular unsalted butter (which is what I usually use for baking), usually Cabot, or Publix Green Wise (organic store brand), which ever is on sale or cheaper.
UPDATE: Ok, so after I wrote this, I looked up smart balance vs. butter, and it seems that butter is better, because even though smart balance is made of good oils, it is still processed (geez), Looks like I will be switching to butter! (grass fed butter). Check it, this helps in deciding what kind of butter too. I'm glad you asked this question!
http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/03/smart-balance-versus-butter/
Use unsalted butter - the real stuff. You need unsalted if you will be using it in baking. In baking you have to be exact, if you use salted butter that can effect the outcome of the recipe. Plus, who needs the extra salt?
On a side note: Even in nature, they only like the real stuff. If you put out margarine and butter on the sidewalk. The ants won't touch the margarine, but they will be all over the butter.