Jabberwockey
Well-Known Member
Well, I can't help it if my boobs are perky as a teenage girls!!
Suggestion: when replacing saturated fat, try using different kinds of oils. We like butter because it has flavor. Olive oil is fairly bland. We're finding that a bit of walnut oil or sesame oil really adds flavor and makes up for the loss of "butter" and other saturated fats in a LOT of recipes. If the recipe uses melted butter... oil can be substituted.
Now that I think about it, we have...grape seed oil maybe?... that we bought a while ago
Anything that uses MELTED butter, you can substitute oil.
By the way... the fastest, easiest desert ever is... a banana. Peel and eat.
Do NOT just switch from butter to margarine. Trans fats are WORSE than saturated fat. And solid margarine has trans fats.
Maybe just cut out baking for a while.
If you like the taste of butter, you can make your own margarine:
1 part of butter
1 part of veggie oil
1 part of cold water.
Mix in the blender (let butter get little soft, after that mix butter and oil and then add water little by little.) It stays good in fridge for couple weeks in closed container. You can change the amounts of different ingredients to find the combo you like the most.
I've been seeing "spreadable butter" in the stores and they seem to basically be this...butter with canola or other oil added
You mean like that stuff we bought that was harder than stick butter???
There is a way (haven't done it for years so have forgotten the details) to use applesauce to replace some or all of the butter in recipes where butter isn't the main ingredient - things like muffins (obviously, isn't going to work for shortbread LOL) You might try looking that up. I'm pretty sure I figured out at one point how to make brownies with half the butter.
Now there's a profound statement. And it applies to a LOT more than just cooking!I actually know most of this stuff....I just have to go back to doing it.
Is that not the epitome of gfgdom? Are we sure that those kids of ours didn't actually inherit it from us? [emoji15]Now there's a profound statement. And it applies to a LOT more than just cooking!