How much butter/spread do you use each week?

rev229

anguk wrote: »

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. [/QUOTE

My husband is the same when putting the butter on anything, more butter than bread DS is the same. Of course they both look at me as if I am the one eating it. They also have to load the bread with whatever spread ie marmite jam etc as well as the butter. DH wonder why he has put on weight. He was moaning last night thet he needs to lose weight:rolleyes:. I am now using flora in their pack lunches and no-one has noticed, yet:j.

rosalie-lavender

A kilo lasts us about 2 weeks for a family of 5. Less time if I use it in baking.
Milk is the thing we get through in large quantities. We get through fourteen 2 litre bottles a week. It costs a small fortune.

mouseymousey99

I swopped to Kerrygold as its the only one that's just butter, with no additives. 2 of us using about 250g pot every fortnight, himself on toast etc. I bake & use it in all cooking.

celyn90

I have one of these You can put normal block butter in it rather than the spreadable stuff and it works straight out of the fridge (I sort of resent paying for a company to pad out butter with water and oil!)

http://www2.westfalia.net/shops/household/kitchen/kitchen_aids/presses__rubbing_and_reducers/526137-butter_press_and_greater.htm

I don't butter sandwiches (unless marmite ) and OH and I go through roughly a block a fortnight, including baking - although I often use marg or trex for baking as I often take it to work and it aviods the non-dairy problem

Floss

rev229 wrote: »

Right, I am going to mark the date on this pack fed up shopping, DS 12 thinks money grows on trees!!! He keeps saying he will live here forever as the food is free:mad:. Funny thing is it is costing me money, he managed to eat a whole 750g of frosties in a week!!!! And the crisps keep disappearing, and cans of coke, so much for stocking up for a month at a time if he eats it in a week. We have a varity of cereal, healthy ones, frosties were for the weekends as a treat!!!

Before my ds's left home to go to uni, I used to tell them that whatever was in the cupboard had to last until next payday, so they learnt the hard way to ration themselves - for example, once the "nice" cereals had gone, it was own brand cornies or wheat biscuits until I got paid & went shopping.

Re spread - we get through a small tub of Lurpak light in about 4-6 weeks, unsalted butter lasts about the same time (used in cooking only).

lilac_lady

I like butter but try to ration it a bit for health reasons. I never buy margarine in any form because my mother and my granny didn't either! I must have inherited an anti-margarine gene.