Interesting article about fat...

[Tuckervill]

Call me weird, but I don't like buttered bread... I used to use butter for cooking eggs, but now that I've discovered cooking spray I'm a convert. It doesn't taste nasty like eggs cooked in oil can and it actually works better for releasing fried eggs too. It's also super easy to apply to a waffle iron and my husband likes making whole grain waffles .

I never eat butter on bread, either, unless it's at a restaurant with special herbed butter or something. Then just a taste. I don't eat gravy, either--not since I was a child, but I make good gravy.

I've used real butter for about 8 years, too, and olive oil.

You're no so weird.

I have trouble getting enough protein in my diet since I started seriously losing weight. I never hit the goal, so I've taken to eating 4 slices of lean deli ham as a snack. I will always eat meat, too, but as a "condiment", like Christianne Northrup says.

Karen

Karen

[bmccasland]

But there is something about butter melted on a warm slice of whole wheat bread fresh from the oven... aaaah. which is why it doesn't occur very often

My problem with the sprays is two things - the spray can, and inhaling the aerosol oils. When I used them, I had to go outside to spray, sticking my nose up wind. Now I don't bother. But I don't cook eggs for breakfast either. For sauteing veggies or other things I use some olive oil in a non-stick pan. If I'm going to bake I use paper muffin tin liners (for muffins) or crisco to grease the pan. Heck if I'm going to bake a cake, what's a little crisco when there's a couple of sticks of butter involved anyway? Moderation folks, in moderation, and share!

[Wahine]

My Dad had one of these and swore by it.

http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-RSVP...d_sbs_gf_img_3

No aerosol, can still use olive oil, or my favorite, walnut oil.

[Flybye]

I have started to use light tasting olive oil and salt on my popcorn instead of butter and salt. I have my whole family hooked.

Come to the other side............. I will have you converted in no time!

[OakLeaf]

Yup, I use those pump sprayers too. I used to have another one for hair spray, and I'd fill them with spray that came in the regular non-aerosol bottles. I can't stand the waste, toxics and greenhouse gases involved in single-use aerosol cans.

Only thing is they're a real PITA to clean. It can be done though. Very warm water and a lot of dish soap, pump and spray through about a kawillion times, repeat with plain rinse water.

But I don't obsess over the amount of oil I use for sauteeing, and more often than not I'm cooking beans in the pressure cooker which requires a tablespoon or two of oil to keep the foaming down. So mostly I use the oil sprayer for greasing my silicone baking pans. Not that I do a lot of baking... and that's pretty much the only time I use butter (never margarine or crisco)

[kelownagirl]

You're supposed to wash them??

[OakLeaf]

You're supposed to wash them??

I guess if you're using them pretty constantly they stay flushed out. I don't worry about it until the oil starts smelling rancid

[Tuckervill]

I don't use non-stick pans anymore--they have some serious health issues of their own. No aluminum, either. Either stainless steel (with things that won't stick in the first place), or for eggs, gravy, etc., a very well-seasoned 30-year-old cast iron skillet, and its smaller companions. I got an enameled cast iron soup pot for xmas and I'm very pleased with it.

Karen