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rick37us asked in Food & DrinkCooking & Recipes · 1 decade ago

Butter, margerine, or cant believe it's not butter?

Trying to eat healthyier foods this year, what one of these is best for me and why ????

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Olive oil is a good fat, but more calories than butter. Butter is better than margerine and I Can't believe it's not butter, it is more expensive, but fake butters are one chemical away from being plastic.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I use ONLY real butter, and extra virgin olive oil.

    I've been a chef for nearly 20 years, and after a long time, you start to notice that people who eat certain foods are 'heavier' than others.

    Beer drinking, margarine eating people are fatter, it's a fact. Wine drinking butter and good oil eaters are thinner and healthier.

    I use liberal amounts of butter and olive oil in my food, and am a solid 6ft tall, 167 pound man. My wife and son are also lean. We eat rich food, including lot's of cheese. (I make my own mozzarella)

    Avoid artificial sweeteners, eat real sugar. (Cane is better than corn)

    Go to a fast food joint and look at the body types of the people that drink diet soda. It's kinda gross what it does to you. Things like Nutrisweet lower your metobolism so you burn fewer calories, and they also increase your appetite, so you ingest MORE calories. (Often from bad fat if that is the type of food you eat with your soda)

    That all said, think of what people looked like until the 1970's. You did not see morbid obesity to the extent that you do now. It is not because people ate less, it was the food that they ate. When in doubt, buy food that does not contain new ingredients like artificial sweeteners, saturated fats, etc.

    Eat well, and be healthy!

  • 1 decade ago

    We use mostly butter and olive oil. Butter does have more saturated fat but I think part of eating healthy is also not having a lot of chemicals in your food.

  • Lynnie
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Butter.

    They all have the same calories but butter behaves better in cooking and baking and there are no chemicals.

    Next favourite is olive oil especially lighter varieties for baking if you don't want the heavy olive taste in your muffins.

  • 1 decade ago

    I suggest butter cause margarine is very fatty! you can also replace butter with Olive oil as it is even healthier but you should also know where the oil comes from! In our family we mostly use olive oil because we are producing it!

  • 1 decade ago

    They are all pure fat so one does not have an advantage over the others as far as fat content. Butter tastes so much better that you tend to use less of it to get good taste.

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