Can I use margarine ?

[vaboris]

Hi - newbee here!

I was just wondering if I can use a butter substitute like margarine with no carbs instead of real butter.

This site is great! Thanks All !

[julirama723]

Margarine has trans-fats and is not recommended.

Use butter! It tastes great and it's a good way to add fat to your meals.

[MorningGlory]

MMmmmmmm butter. It's made from real ingredients and tastes good~why not use it? Like Julie says, margarine has trans-fats...yuck!

[julirama723]

What's funny is that I NEVER used to eat butter--my house was a margarine household. Now, since I've been on Atkins, I wonder how I ever used to eat that junk. Blechhhh, margarine! I definitely developed a taste for it! I am a total butter fanatic now. I'd eat it on everything if I could.

[MorningGlory]

Same here Julie....my husband is so excited that we only have butter in the house now! We're just bbq'ing some chicken kabobs with zucchini, red onion, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, orange and green peppers all slathered with butter and garlic...yummy! We're having really awful rainy weather....typical for a long weekend!

[julirama723]

Oh YUMMMMMMMMM!

My boyfriend is now a butter-fiend, too, and he ALSO grew up in a margarine household. We turn our noses up at anything that's not real butter. Who knew there was such a thing as a Butter Snob?!?

[apple]

Butter snobs.

Quite frankly, why would you want to use the fake stuff anyways? Grandma was always right, you know, nothing taste good unless it's made with butter.