How much butter/spread do you use each week?

broclo

Mine lasts ages as just my littlun eata it and it is spread very thinly. Just a thought, could you try forgetting in the rolls that have wet fillings like mayo/s.cream/pickle etc. I know butter stops it sinking in etc, but maybe you could take the mayo etc seperate and add before eating?

Or is that just too much of a faff!

broclo

Sorry, just read your 2nd post...my parents used to foster, the children could clear packs of crisps, coke, choccie bikkies etc in a week.

So each weekend my parents gave them a carrier of their weekly allowance. May seem extreme, but it was unfair when one teen was eating the lot and not leaving for others, plus it cut down the vast amounts that the teenager in question was eating as it was silly amounts

noonesperfect

For some reason butter (even the spreadable kind) never lasts as long as sunflower or olive oil spread. Probably because it is so delicious!
Not being so easily spread means inevitably that more is used too.

I tend to have both in the fridge and just use butter on toast (after it's gone cold;) ) and the occasional scone. Otherwise it's healthier spreads for sarnies and baking.

I reckon a 250g tub of spread lasts two of us about 2-3 weeks (me and OH). I only occasionally buy butter as a treat and then only when it's on offer.

sillyvixen

i use lurpack spreadable and there are 2 of us - i use so little that i have to get rid of a half used pack (250g) a month after the use by date - most of the sandwiches and toast fillings/toppings we have are moist enough not to require it - i dont really do butter though!!

Magentasue

I don't buy margarine or spreadables but reckon on needing six packs (a kilo and a half) of butter in the fridge, more school hols. There are six of us and I use it for baking. One of my sons can eat a home made loaf of bread or a baguette with artery clogging quantities of butter.

When money has been short, it's a problem - I turn into a harpie shouting, 'That butter's got to last, you know'. Otherwise, I just accept it. Because money's not a problem at the moment, I worry more about the health implications rather than the cost. I'd rather they were eating butter than a chemical concoction but in moderation - teens aren't really into moderation and, I tell myself there are worse things they could be overindulging in.

I'm sure if butter was white, I'd hardly touch it. Just looking at lard turns my stomach.

anguk

There's only 3 of us and we get through about 750g of butter a week. The main culprit is my OH, he spreads a ridiculous amount on his bread and I'll actually say to him "have you got a bit of toast on your butter". He also uses it for cooking instead of oil "because the TV chefs do". :rolleyes:

It drives me mad, both the cost and the fact he's supposed to be losing weight. He's cut back on the amount of food he's eating and snacks but it doesn't seem to sink into his thick skull that he's eating about 1 days worth of calories in butter alone each week. :mad:

I keep threatening to go back to margarine and even worse get the low fat versions but I'm wasting my time because he'll just go to the shop & buy it himself.

geordie_joe

freakyogre wrote: »

I've pretty much stopped buying bread so sometimes struggle to get through a 500g tub before it goes off :eek:

I do live on my own though.

For those of you who live alone, or don't use very much, you could do what I do.

Split it (the butter) into smaller portions and freeze some. Blocks of butter can just be cut in two, or four, and wrapped in cling film or a bag and frozen.

Spreadable butter can be put into smaller containers and frozen. You can put 500g into two 250g tubs and freeze one. You can also do it with ordinary butter if you "soften" it in the microwave for a few seconds.

I have loads of 0.2L "tupperware" containers which I use, bought in the woolies sale for 10p for three, but you can use anything. Those little pate tubs are perfect for small amounts of butter.

You only need one container, just line it with cling film or a poly bag. Put enough butter in to fill it then pull it out and freeze it. You then have a bag of just enough butter to fill your container.

buxtonrabbitgreen

4 of us here and we use 1kg a week too. 500gm of butter and 500g spread. I put the spread on the pack lunches and the kids eat it on toast etc. But I only like butter on my toast, and dd and myself eat butter on crossants and boiled pots.

clutterydrawer

none

unless I'm baking things, when i use about 250g in 2 weeks. there's only me here.

meanmarie

I buy 3 lbs of butter for three adults one child every month....don't like anything else on my bread, but sometimes go without. Use low-fat spread for baking, or Stork, butter only used with spinach.

Marie