Tips For Replacing Butter In Your Diet

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Most people know good and well that they should not keep putting butter in their bodies, but most people are also unable to stop nonetheless! Oftentimes, butter makes food taste that much better, and it can be difficult to move away from butter - especially if you grew up with it. After all, margarine - despite its sincere efforts to try to replace butter - does not taste the same; so what is a butter lover to do? Well, quite frankly, it is not easy to get away from butter; if you are trying to do so, however, here are a few simple tips for replacing butter in your diet.

If you are a butter user, you probably use butter whenever you cook on the stove, regardless of whether you are cooking eggs, pancakes, or even a grilled cheese sandwich. If you replace butter with olive oil, however, you will have a much healthier substitute; and furthermore, your food will still taste great! Food has a different taste cooked in olive oil than it does cooked in butter, but once you become familiar with this taste, you may even find that you like it more.

Toasted breads - including bagels and English muffins - is another area where a lot of people have a difficult time switching from butter to something else. You have probably had toast before with butter and jam on it; next time, try skipping the butter and eating it with just jam! If you enjoy bagels and English muffins, you can try these with jam as well, and you can also try them with a thin layer of peanut butter.

And if you enjoy using butter as a dip - for bread or for seafood - try using oil with spices instead. This will enable you to get a rich, full flavor that compares favorably to butter, but that does so without clogging your arteries!

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In the end, it comes down to making a decision to stay away from butter if you truly want to stay away. But as it can be difficult at first, these tips can help you ease away from butter into healthier alternatives.