Spreadable butter

Is spreadable butter just another name for more expensive margarine?
With all the added ingredients are you just better off buying buttery marge like Clover.

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We have been making our own spreadable butter for years. We use two blocks of Tesco butter cut up small in a big bowl so that it softens, we then add 150ml of olive oil and give it a good mix with a potato masher and put it into the fridge in a tupperware container. It's a lovely spread, it's half the price and you know exactly what's in it....

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That's a good idea, Barry! I use Anchor spreadable. Don't know what's in it, but like the taste.

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I was under the impression that spreadable butter contain higher levels of trans fats.
Am I wrong?

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They put all sorts into it, and if you read the ingredient list sometimes there is as little as 50% butter, that's why we started making our own...

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I use Nurpak or Lurpak butter.

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I like my butter unadulterated!

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I buy spreadable margarine. The most I ever use is for a lunchtime sandwich (2 slices of bread), but usually I have a wrap, with no need for spread, or dry toast with soup. Very often I throw half a tub away when it has been open in the fridge for about three months. I did buy some butter for over the Christmas period but it is still unopened in the fridge.

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I have only ever, used proper block butter. President is my favourite but l do like Kerrygold, Lurpak and Anchor too.

I don’t like the butter, oil and chemicals in a tub stuff!

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Me too
If butter is too hard to spread and is needed quickly it is easy to soften with a fork and a little hot water which cools and separates from the butter as it softens and can be tipped away .