Butter vs. Margarine
 

Why Butter Is Better - Weston A Price Foundation

Nice, I have her book 'Nourishing Traditions' sat here on my book shelf, excellent read with lot's of information as well as practical recipes.

She is one of my favorite speakers. I admire her intelligence and knowledge.

BUTTER!

I quit using artificial spreads. Olive oil and butter are my main fats to cook with. I keep telling my Wife to quit using the artificial crap her Dr. told her to use. She is convinced she can't eat butter cause her Dr. told her so.

See if you can Mrs. GL a copy of the book, my missus loves it. It has good recipes she can use, not any fancy stuff either just good meat and potatoes type of dishes. And she really writes in a very accessible way.

I used to believe margarine was better but those days are long gone. I use unsalted butter (that way I can cook and bake with it) and tons of olive oil. A Gallon barely lasts me a month.

We are artificial free. It took a while to convince my wife, but now we are cooking with only butter and olive oil and she is really liking it.

Now if I could only get my mother off the preservatives and fillers and chemicals. Everything she eats is artificial sweetener, artificial butter, low fat filled with corn syrup, low carb filled with corn oil, overly processed foods.

I'm not entirely sure what you just said ;) but fat has the same amount of fat whether it's in the form of butter, margarine, or oils, the fact that margarines can state that they have less fat comes in the form of what they are mixed with i.e., all the surrounding crap, since fat, gram for gram equates to the same calorie value...meaning that anything which states "lower fat" in relation to another fat, has to contain lots of nothings added to the fat spread...if you follow that.

• Have a chunk of butter = 100% fat
• Place the same chunk of butter in the equivalent amount of water = 50% fat

They can state the above but they are still both 100% fat in reality.

I use butter for baking most of the time and margarine for everything else.

BUTTER all the way