Best spread?

[sandsam]

I use Anchor spreadable but am a bit heavy handed. So calories creep up. I hate olives but have been told to use Olive oil spread. Can anyone tell me does this spread taste of olives and is it claggy on the palette?

 

[Inka]

It doesn’t taste of olives at all. The texture is just like any other spread. However, I stopped using spreads like that some years ago and just have moderate portions of butter. Apparently the man who invented margarine refused to eat it himself! Hardly an endorsement

You can also simply skip butter or spread altogether in a sandwich.

 

[sandsam]

Hello Inka, thank hou for your reply...
Margarine spreads are plastic and claggy. Ugh! If I'm having just toast then I use butter but far too much. I weighed out what I would put on a small slice of wholemeal - thinking my lump of butter would be about 10g. I was shocked to see it was 25g! That's a lot of calories out of my 1800 a day. So I've now got to be sensible and either knock it on the head or weigh out my lumps lol.

 

[Drummer]

I use animal origin fats since the olive oil ran out some time ago.
For a few years now my skin has been able to stand sunlight - it was agony when I used low fat spreads and sunflower oil. I used to turn lobster pink and blister, my skin would peel - it was dreadful. Now I do not need any sunscreen let alone factor 50 and I have a light tan appearing after a couple of days out when I wore a T shirt and exposed my arms.
My diet is low carb, but I do not restrict calories or even consider them. my weight seems to be stable or perhaps reducing just a little - after decades of persecution about my weight I just do not 'do' weight at all. I only found out how much I had reduced down from my heaviest by accident as the nurses I usually see know how triggered I had become by any mention of weight. The 'big reveal' was supposed to make me happy so it was very puzzling to the newcomer when I was distressed to be told.
The thing not understood is that my metabolism shuts down when faced with low calorie diets, so I don't lose weight, I go deathly grey and fainting, my temperature drops and I can become confused.

 

[Leadinglights]

Hello Inka, thank hou for your reply...
Margarine spreads are plastic and claggy. Ugh! If I'm having just toast then I use butter but far too much. I weighed out what I would put on a small slice of wholemeal - thinking my lump of butter would be about 10g. I was shocked to see it was 25g! That's a lot of calories out of my 1800 a day. So I've now got to be sensible and either knock it on the head or weigh out my lumps lol.

It is the toast not the butter that is going to affect your blood glucose but if you are worried about calories then spread the butter thinly or not bother depending on what you are putting on the toast.

 

[rebrascora]

It depends how you are trying to manage your diabetes. Personally on a low carb way of eating I have ditched the bread altogether and therefore don't need to consider how thick or thin I spread the butter. I do cook many of my veggies with a knob of butter though and I no longer consider using anything other than butter. Spreads are more highly processed and have additives. Butter is just churned cream with some salt, so I am much more comfortable sticking with that..... and of course it tastes better.

 

[Inka]

Hello Inka, thank hou for your reply...
Margarine spreads are plastic and claggy. Ugh! If I'm having just toast then I use butter but far too much. I weighed out what I would put on a small slice of wholemeal - thinking my lump of butter would be about 10g. I was shocked to see it was 25g! That's a lot of calories out of my 1800 a day. So I've now got to be sensible and either knock it on the head or weigh out my lumps lol.

Yep, toast and butter is a combination that invites lots of butter! Same with crumpets! I’d either shave the butter off the block very thinly and put less on, or have something else on the toast,eg a smear of pure fruit spread or some peanut butter.

 

[bulkbiker]

Hello Inka, thank hou for your reply...
Margarine spreads are plastic and claggy. Ugh! If I'm having just toast then I use butter but far too much. I weighed out what I would put on a small slice of wholemeal - thinking my lump of butter would be about 10g. I was shocked to see it was 25g! That's a lot of calories out of my 1800 a day. So I've now got to be sensible and either knock it on the head or weigh out my lumps lol.

I'd just ditch the toast and eat the butter.

 

[nonethewiser]

Has to be butter on toast, don't do thinly spread so generous portion everytime.

If you want to spread butter on toast thinly combine it with some marmite, delicious.