butter

[hhfarang]

If you want food that tastes great and arteries that are fully clogged, save your bacon drippings from breakfast in a can in your fridge and use that for cooking instead of butter or lard. That's what my Mom did when I was growing up!

[MrPlum]

The rest of us stopped using butter years ago -only using oils nowadays -really !!!

Likewise. Although butter, eaten as 'Ghee', is very healthy and nourishing. I make my own and it keeps for months.

IMO the best oil out there is virgin coconut oil. It will withstand high temperatures, keeps well and was used for centuries before modern marketing and industrialization led to its decline. I use it on cuts, insect bites, for earache. It's a fantastic oil.

Most vegetable oils and all hydrogenated oils are a no-no in my house. I use 3 oils.

1. Cold-pressed Virgin Coconut Oil. Good for cooking and medicine!
2. Cold pressed Extra Virgin olive oil, the darker colour the better. Don't cook using high temperatures.
3. Cold-pressed Oryzanol Rice Bran Oil. Ok for cooking.

A tablespoon a day of any of these is highly beneficial. Yes, they are more expensive but not as much as future medical bills.

A search for 'unhealthy oils' produces a side of Oils you may not have heard about...
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/canola.htm

[MURF]

In tesco near where they sell the baked beans,they have a danish butter in a gold tin,it costs the roughly the same as the other butters but it is full creamery butter that melts perfectly on toast.