Weight-Loss Best fake butter?

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panacea23

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So in watching what I'm eating over the last few days I've realized I consume a ridiculous amount of butter. Buttered toast, butter on veggies, etc. I love it and it brings me great joy but I realize that's a LOT of extra calories that I can do without. I don't want to cut it out completely but perhaps cut down - or the best thing - find a substitute that tastes the same with half the calories !! I admit I don't think it exists either...but here's to trying! :doh:

What do people thing is the best-tasting fake butter? Preferably as close to the taste of real butter as possible...Or even if it doesn't taste like butter - what's still good?
 
I think the best thing that tastes like butter is...butter. :)

Better in my mind to use less of the real stuff than go for the fake substitutes, although I do use some non-hydrogenated margarine now and then, mainly when I am too lazy or in a hurry to soften some butter.

One option is olive oil. Toss your veggies in a small amount of olive oil, or spread some on your toast, and try it. I know a number of people who swear by it, although it really isn't for me personally.

BTW - do you really _need_ butter on your veggies?
 
I use light whipped butter, one tablespoon is 45 calories with 5g's of fat.

It uhm doesnt taste quite like butter, it tastes like they tried too hard to make it taste like butter haha, but thats because i tried some by itself. On toast and such, you cannot tell the difference. And I did the "fool proof test" by using it on my Dad's food and giving it to him, he HATES "light" and subsititutes and he never noticed a difference.
 
If I were you I'd try different spices/herbs in your cooking to add flavor so you don't feel like you have to use butter. I think what some people are really craving from butter is not the creamy flavor...it's the salt. Try a dash of salt and a drizzle (a VERY small amount) of olive oil and see if the taste suits you. I rarely use butter on anything, but when I do want a buttery flavor...only BUTTER will do. I buy the full fat salted butter and it takes me forever to use a stick of it. But if I ate lots of it I'd rethink my butter-buying habits. :blush5:

If you MUST have butter on your rice, try cooking it with garlic cloves thrown in, or a roughly chopped onion or shallots instead. Also, if you're eating white rice, switch to short grain brown rice. Brown rice tastes like something (tastes like rice). White rice tastes like nothing and has little to no nutritional value. Sometimes I put a pat of butter on a cup of brown rice...sometimes I don't. I can live without it.

Hope this helps.
 
txsqlchick said:
If I were you I'd try different spices/herbs in your cooking to add flavor so you don't feel like you have to use butter.
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Therein lies much of the problem I think. I don't cook very often as I live alone so my cooking skills are a bit...shall we say, underdeveloped. :blush5: But I do love garlic as well so perhaps I can just make a trade. I hear if you roast garlic in the oven you can squeeze it out and it's almost like a spread. Has anyone actually tried that?

Thanks for the advice guys!
 
panacea23 said:
Therein lies much of the problem I think. I don't cook very often as I live alone so my cooking skills are a bit...shall we say, underdeveloped. :blush5: But I do love garlic as well so perhaps I can just make a trade. I hear if you roast garlic in the oven you can squeeze it out and it's almost like a spread. Has anyone actually tried that?

Thanks for the advice guys!
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I usually have to mash it a little bit to make it more spreadable, but yes, you can spread it. Roasted garlic has a fairly sweet flavor to it.

 
As others have said, do you really need butter on your veges?

I would definitely try garlic and other herbs and spices on your veges. I would cut butter out altogether, especially on veges. Your heart, waist and over all health will thank you.

The roasted garlic idea sounds great and maybe a splash of olive oil.
 
there is also calorie free spray butter...if i want something more to the taste of something, i use that
 
jaraku said:
there is also calorie free spray butter...if i want something more to the taste of something, i use that
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Look at how much one spray is. Thats very little compared to what anyone would actually use, even to grease a pan slightly. That reallllly adds up since it isnt completely calorie free.
 
I'd agree with the idea that what people are realy craving is the salt...and maybe others are, but I desire the butter on my popcorn, despite having salted it, already...and no amount of salt makes up for it. Likewise, while I do like my veggies with vinegar, dressing, or even naked, sometimes I just want butter flavor on them.
 
Buttermilk spreads tend to be lower calorie (about 1/4 less). nothing really worth considering below that as it just takes to into the realm of man made compounds and flavourings.
 
Actually, you can still overeat 'good stuff'. You lost weight cause you cut calories. you didn't count them because by eliminating wheat and sugar products, you cut out two of the higher calorie products (bread, sweets, etc).
 
You can take our lives but you can never take our Freedom!!!.... or our bread. you can't have that neither.


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