What do you prefer,Butter or Margarine?

[mummy of many]

Hi ladies,
I was just wondering what most people prefer to use & why? Butter or Margarine.

My children & DH much prefer the taste of Butter,for cooking & when I make sanwhiches/bread rolls etc.... I thought Butter had more Caleries than Margarine,but they contain the same ( 35 Caleries- per 5 gram / teaspoon!) We have switch from buying margarine to Butter now.

[alioops]

I prefer butter because I like the taste, but we have to buy one of 2 specific margarines because DD2 reacts to the lactose in even the tiniest amounts.

[tannedangel]

Butter by far! I cant stand margarine...makes me feel sick...

[Mum0809]

Butter - taste much better.

[TreeTops]

I prefer butter for taste and composition. Marj is processed yuckiness.

[Liz]

Butter here! Coz it's natural, not just disguised oily sludge hehe

[Lisa]

Butter here too.
With the minimal amounts that I use, I'd much prefer to taste butter than margarine... I dred staying at other people's houses that use marg... it has such a fake taste after being used to butter.

[Junglemum]

i once watched a docco years ago on the manufacturing of marg. It was basically a black color and they colored it yellow. Since then i have been a butter girl through and through. No nasty chemicals in butter.

[Fee]

Butter!

We use Mainland Butter Soft for toast etc. It has no additives.

I buy butter blocks in paper for cooking.

[ACJ]

Butter all the way here!! I remember years ago my SIL told us all (she is a health freak!!) and marj is one step away from being a liquid plastic...never looked into or anything but just the thought of it makes me feel sick!!

ETA - Just read the thread on marj and I am definately convinced!! Will never buy it again.

[feeb]

i love butter on fresh bread but on a sandwich i dont really care, generally buy Olive grove (apart from when DH goes to shops and buys a cheaper one!)

dont like digging wholes in bread trying to spread hard butter

[2girlz]

Butter.It tastes sooooo much better
I could go some nice melted butter on hot pancakes right now *drools*

[Glamourcide]

Butter FTW, every time. I'm not usually the kind of person who goes on about how we should be eating natural, unprocessed foods with fewer additives etc, but in this case, yeah, I reckon butter over margarine all the way. I always hated the taste and texture of the stuff (I finally convinced mum to start buying butter when she saw me slicing cooking butter with the cheese slicer and putting it on my toast lol), but now the more I read about margarine, the more I'm convinced that I'd prefer to consume a bit extra 'natural' fat or whatever rather than putting what is essentially one molecule away from plastic into my mouth.

[Bathsheba]

Oooh that's a nifty trick with using the cheese cutter (or I guess you could also use a vegie peeler?) to thinly cut cooking butter. I'll remember that one! Cooking butter is soooo much cheaper than "spreadable" and has like, 3 ingredients: cream, water, salt. Can't beat that for pure and simple!

[*charmalea*]

BUTTER !!! mmmmm

not marg as its got nasty additives in it and just hast and oily taste not the yummy creamy taste , butter has ..
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apparntley marg is black before its processed in to a yellow spread ... besides vegemite , who want to spread anyfing black on their bread not me !!!

oh and its gotta be full fat butter

[MrsFabuloso]

Butter (she says as she sits here eating hot buttered toast for dinner..). DH eats that stuff that's supposed to lower cholesterol, but I can't stand the stuff. DD has to have dairy free marg, again YUCK! Even more yuck than normal marg!!

[satya]

I actually prefer olive oil spread - no nasty transfats. I prefer the taste & it's health benefits.

[Visitor8]

I like marg for sangas and stuff but butter to melt over vegies and also to cook cakes and things.