Comments on: Better Butter Alternatives

By: Vulcan Catering

Vulcan Catering — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:44:11 +0000

Margarine is one molecule removed from plastic. You don't want to be eating that stuff. Put some margarine outside & watch it. Weeks will pass but nothing will touch it. If that was butter or cream insects would have eaten it. Nothing touches margarine, so why should we go there? Because food companies tell us it is good? I don't think so!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:29:49 +0000

I am allergic to coconuts so, I can not use coconut oil. I would like to know what other options, I can use.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:14:38 +0000

if you read the list of ingredients, i believe you will find that olivia is not 100%

By: Toby Amidor

Toby Amidor — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:43:16 +0000

Hi Joyce,
Butter freezes well– for up to 6 months. Dana actually does it all the time!

By: joyce

joyce — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:54:24 +0000

can butter be frozen?

By: foodie5951

foodie5951 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:29:34 +0000

COCONUT OIL NEEDS TO BE RESEARCHED BY EVERYONE!! Just type it into your search engine and keep reading. IT IS the best oil you can use for a multitude of things. You will be amazed at the bad press it has gotten over the years. I agree with Mangopickle in everything stated about unprocessed food – we must get back to eating the way our bodies function best, not the way big business wants us to eat.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:48:43 +0000

mangopickle-I totally agree, use the natural product in minimal quantities. Who knows what they’ll find in all these “healthy” substitutes in the coming years. We’re big into evoo and minimal amounts of butter, we buy it at Costco so the price is very reasonable compared to the grocery store.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:32:23 +0000

Since we’ve been using promise light, I’ve noticed an increasing presence of heartburn? Anyone else experiencing this?

By: mangopickle

mangopickle — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:40:55 +0000

One more thing: this article by Dr. Andrew Weil is even better than the NYT one I linked to above (which is somewhat less clear, and also contains at least one inaccuracy in that it parrots the old thinking about coconut oil):
http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/margbutt.htm
In any case, read it and make up your own mind.

By: mangopickle

mangopickle — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:18:50 +0000

Why on earth are so many people using highly artificial butter substitutes rather than using the real thing sparingly? For the most part the substitutes have the same calories and differ only in cholesterol — so unless your doctor has advised you that you have a cholesterol problem, you are needlessly eating gunk. This NY Times article is quite informative:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/health/nutrition/05brod.html?scp=1&sq=buuter%20margarine%20health&st=cse
But the bottom line is, if your tastebuds cannot tell you that margarine and other butter substitutes taste terrible, you’re doing something wrong. Either you’ve killed your tastebuds through smoking cigarettes and/or you’ve become completely accustomed to plastic-y processed food. Try something for a while and see how it goes: Eat only real food, made with non-synthetic ingredients. Lots of vegetables and fruit (real vegetables that must be washed and chopped, not processed stuff from a box that tastes like mush) and if you’re going to eat meat, make sure it is of good quality and not processed (e.g., no antibiotics, no artificial flavors added, no extruded chicken). No McNuggets, no Lunchables, no cold cuts loaded with nitrates and water and salt, no food from terrible chain restaurants that serve gigantic heaps of fried frozen food. If you crave cookies, bake real cookies with real butter and eat them in moderation. (Give half the batch or more to friends if you haven’t got the willpower to keep them in the house without eating them all at once!) Try this for a couple months and see how you feel. If you eat processed food after all that, it will very likely taste awful to you.