JFF - Butter or Margarine?

Do they still make margarine?!!!?!? That's so 70s!!!! Makes me think of Spam, Wonder Bread, Cheez Wiz, Shasta, Kool-Aid... :)

We use olive oil and on the rare occasion some butter.

Real butter only - you will not find margarine of any kind in my house.

Real butter tastes better, and it's actually better for you than artificially flavored hydrogentated vegetable oil aka margarine.

Butter. My husband still likes Country Crock and bought some while I was out of commission the last few weeks. The kids prefer the taste of butter, but like how the Country Crock spreads. Ugh, at least I'm going back to doing the shopping!

Butter!! I for one can believe its not butter.....

Butter - I come from a long long line of dairy farmers

For dairy awareness at the state fair this year (Which my mom is always in charge of), we baked hundreds (And yes, I mean hundreds) of cookies using real butter and hundreds of cookies using margarine. Then anyone who came to our booth got a butter cookie and a margarine cookie (Without knowing which was which). They then had to tell us which cookie they thought was better.

Butter cookie won, EVERY TIME!!!

Butter, because it's a real food. Good quality butter is a source of vitamins, good fatty acids, and nutrients like selenium and lecithin.

Margarine is a bizarre non-food. Right up there with Cool-Whip in the the list of things that don't make it into my fridge.

ETA: Jo, literally LOL'd at your comment. Mom2KCK...we use Land O Lakes spreadable butter with olive oil because it does spread nicely on toast.

Butter is better! :)

I use real butter. I truly believe that those processed items are just basically artificially flavored goo and they provide nothing for your body. They are gross.

A friend of mine lived in Finland for a couple of years and had always used Blue Bonnet Spread. When she moved back to Oklahoma she got groceries, same stuff she had used before moving to Finland. She made cookies one day and they didn't turn out. She got to reading the labels on her items and the margarine was not even close to being what it was before.

This experience showed me that we need to use real foods and just use them with an adult mind where we watch how much of something we are using and not go in excess on anything.

To me using margarine is like taking water and cornstarch, mixing it together to get the consistency we want then sprinkling flavors on it. Calling that something good to eat is not what I am going to do.

Real butter, always.
Margarine is fake and nasty!

Butter! Tastes better. Haven't used the fake stuff in years. It also cooks better. =)

BUTTER here because butter makes everything better.

Butter
because it's what I consider to be "real" food.

Always butter. Never margarine - why mess up my lovely food with fake??

I haven't used margerine in years! Butter is real food! I get the salted kind and keep it on the counter in a butter dish so that its spreadable.

Better Butter:

Mix equal parts EVOO or Grapeseed Oil with real Butter. Blend and refrigerate. It spread like margarine.

Butter for sure...every time!

Butter is just cream and and salt...no chemicals. Margarine is fake food.

Real butter. I always choose real, in moderation. Just like sugar. No substitutes.

Butter.

I don't like to use fake food. Margarine is factory, chemically created sludge.
(Just my opinion, no judgement for margarine users.)

Butter all the way. First, it tastes so much better than margerine, which has so many chemicals in it.

My grandfather was a dairy farmer and my mom grew up using nothing but butter..margerine wasn't even on the market when she was young. My grandma and mom taught me to bake and cook, they never considered using anything but butter, so it's what I learned to use, and always have. I will never change, period. End of discussion

Nothing but pure butter here.

Butter only, preferably Land O Lakes.

But, I do use margarine (again Land O Lakes) for grilled cheese and roasting whole chickens.

Butter.
I actually had not tried real, actual butter until I was an adult, isn't that sad?! My family had 5 kids to feed and not a whole lot of money, so they always went for margarine.
Once I started running my own household, I started buying butter simply because I love to bake and I had read that using butter made all the difference in your baking. We certainly eat processed foods from time to time but I feel better about sticking with real butter rather than some chemically created cube o fat.
BTW I did buy margarine about a month ago, because at our store butter was $4.75 a pound that week and I refused to pay that much. I should have just shelled out for it....the kids put it on their toast once and gagged. They could totally tell the difference and the margarine sat unused for the rest of the month till I tossed it out and bought real butter again.

I miss butter!!!!

I'm currently not allowed any kind of dairy (its making me violently ill). So... No butter (or any other kind of dairy) for 3 months, now. Sniff.

Butter -- less processed, tastes better, no hydrogenated oils, no food coloring, cooks better,...... I could go on but I think you get the point

Butter. The second I heard margarine was bad for you, I happily switched to butter.

Butter (and olive oil).
It tastes better - on bread, on popcorn and in cooking with it.
Margarine just tastes slightly plastic to me.

butter.

like the taste better than margarine.

Butter. I try to only eat real food when I can. Sometimes things are hidden but when I know I only eat real food. My grandparents ate real butter, ( and lard, etc., etc. ) and both lived to be almost 95 years old.

I'm answering before I read any other answers :-) I use butter only. I saw a special on margarine ... and how you can leave it outside & it never spoils AND never even attracts ants or bugs! It's so artificial ............ So I use real butter, only.

I use butter. I really just prefer the flavor. I have also heard that margarine is bad for you (another reason I've stuck with butter), but I thought I'd look it up before putting it on here and here is what I found.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/butter-vs-margarine/AN00835
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/prevention/askdietici...

So based on both of those articles, margarine is better for you as long as you buy the right margarine. Alas, I'll stick with my butter until it becomes medically necessary not to.

Butter until I had a dairy allergic daughter...now it is Earth Balance.

Butter. It's natural.

Butter. Preferably organic from a local farm when I can get it. I can't imagine even ONE situation where I'd use margarine. We keep our butter in a butterbell, so it's always perfectly spreadable.

wow, had no idea, Is this an accurate popluation sampling or are butter users more inclined to answer?

Dh insisted on margarine, no idea why and it wasn't worth the fight to me, so maybe i'll take those links and convince him to switch, in all honesty he probably thought it was healthier at the time.

he also insists we keep the bread in the fridge Yuck. but yet another fight i'm not willing to have.

i cant believe its not butter or country crock...something in a tub..ussually an oil/butter spread
why?
because someone said its better
but mostly because its cheap and softer than regular butter=)

Butter! Margarine tastes gross.

Always used margarine until about two months ago my husband heard that butter was actually better for you so no all we have is butter in the house . We are happy with the switch.

Butter! It is more natural than margarine.

I LOVE butter....but we've used non-dairy margarine since our youngest cannot have any dairy (1.5 yrs now). We are hoping he outgrows it.

Butter. I don't like margarine.

For the one poster who mentioned that margarine spreads better on toast or grilled cheese, you can keep salted butter on your table without refrigerating it. The unsalted butter has to be refrigerated. Also, put a chunk of butter in the microwave for about 40 seconds to melt it and then spread it on the bread with a pastry brush. Butter is way better than margarine!

I grew up with margarine since my mom had a dairy allergy, and up until a few years ago I still used margarine in baking since it was cheaper, but kept butter for spreading since that was my husband's preference. Now I only use butter. It's more natural and it tastes better.

For spreading on bread- the fake stuff. For cooking- olive oil or real butter. For my son's cooking experiments- vegetable oil and/or bacon grease.

I have heard that there might be a link between asthma and consuming lots of margarine.

Buttah!
Buttah!
Buttah!
and a lot of Olive Oil!