Sticker Shock!!! I just priced BUTTER, and it is up to $5.29 for 4 sticks!!!!

@4meAndyou That’s what Aldi has it priced for this week. I think there’s a limit of 2 per customer but you could go back a few times.

@cherokeepatti No limit at Market Basket! I am out of money...maxed out my budget for the month, otherwise I would go back and get more and freeze it.

@4meAndyou I need to get a few pounds of it for the freezer. I don’t use a lot of it often but there are some recipes you need some butter….mashed potatoes, some baked items, yeast rolls, grilled cheese sandwiches. I could use olive oil for the grilled cheese and also for garlic toast if need be.

@cherokeepatti I was trying to think along those lines last night...IE: what recipes could use butter flavored Crisco, (which I have), which could use margarine, (tastes terrible but could use in baking), and on and on. I have a bad habit of sauteeing onions in butter, also mushrooms, green peppers, and omelettes need butter.

@4meAndyou I wouldn’t use Crisco at all. It’s trans fats and none of the health benefits of real butter. Those trans fats can clog your arteries but even sooner they can clog the tiny blood vessels in your eyes. I heard Dr. Becker talk about trans fats and vision on one of his tv shows. If I have to use something besides butter it’ll be olive oil or avocado oil. Not the same flavor. And the flavor chemicals they use in butter-flavored fats is not healthy at all.

@cherokeepatti I use it to grease baking pans, and then flour them, right now, and I think I ran out of oil a couple of years ago and added it to my fryer.