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Use what you want to be honest, I use Lidl's own salted spreadable, more of it for the same price as a standard block of butter xx
 
Don't know about better

.Butter is butter, spreadable butter is a mixture of butter and rapeseed oil, so it isn't a straight choice. You can use either in baking bread or cakes. As Kaylz says, it's cheaper by weight because rapeseed oil is cheap - but healthy.
 
In summer, when it is warm I cut off daily rations of butter from the block and keep it at room temperature. In winter I use the spreadable. I think the block butter tastes better but I have a highly sensitive sense of taste, so I suspect most people would not really notice much difference.
Some people don't like rape seed oil on principle, but I don't use loads of it anyway, so not really a problem.
 
There’s a lovely block butter which is spreadable straight from the fridge and it is only butter with no additives. Unfortunately I can’t remember the name but it’s in red packaging and they sell it in Waitrose!
 
If you don't want hard butter, do what my parents did when i was young. Keep your butter in a ceramic butter dish with a lid, and don't stick it in the fridge. Problem solved. Such things were created long before fridges were invented.
 
Is butter the best thing to use? Apart from using it when we use the sandwich toaster, we use Benecol because of my husband's cholesterol. Is that ok for diabetes?
 
Personally I would much rather eat butter than any highly-processed spread!
 
Sparkle said:
Do you know if it is better for diabetes than the other things mentioned?
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what kind of spread you use isn't going to effect your diabetes, as a diabetic its carbs and sugar you have to be aware of, of which there is basically nothing in spread or proper butter
 
Kaylz said:
what kind of spread you use isn't going to effect your diabetes, as a diabetic its carbs and sugar you have to be aware of, of which there is basically nothing in spread or proper butter
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Thank you
 
mikeyB said:
If you don't want hard butter, do what my parents did when i was young. Keep your butter in a ceramic butter dish with a lid, and don't stick it in the fridge. Problem solved. Such things were created long before fridges were invented.
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I still use a butter dish.
 
Sparkle said:
Do you know if it is better for diabetes than the other things mentioned?
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Official NHS dietary advice would say not, as they still recommend low fat. As @Kaylz says, it is carbs that affect diabetes. It is very difficult to maintain low carb and low fat long term, so many of us choose to avoid low fat.
 
Butter everytime, cant eat toast with spread on, just doesn't taste same.

Its kept in butter dish in food cupboard, spreads fine in warm weather, in winter just zap in microwave for 2 secs soon makes it spreadable, couldn't care less what brand it is as all tastes same, usually just buys Aldi's own.
 
nonethewiser said:
Butter everytime, cant eat toast with spread on, just doesn't taste same.

Its kept in butter dish in food cupboard, spreads fine in warm weather, in winter just zap in microwave for 2 secs soon makes it spreadable, couldn't care less what brand it is as all tastes same, usually just buys Aldi's own.
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I also buy any brand, depends on what’s on offer but it has to be the salted one. Using Tesco at the moment as daughter is doing our shopping and that is her shop of choice. It’s fine.
 
The only brand I don't use is Lurpak - I just don't like it. Totally bland.
 
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