Spreading margarine

[Copper]

Tesco now have their own brand of dairy free spreading margarine :) It is "free from spread" and is suitable for baking, home freezing, and shallow frying. As it has reached us in the south in the last few weeks it must be everywhere!

It even contains calcium carbonate!

[Pam]

Have you tried it yet? Please let us know what it tastes like. I've always used Pure, mainly because it is the only one sold by Morrisons and it is reasonably cheap. It tastes like cheap margarine so isn't the best thing for spreading on toast, but it seems to work ok in baking etc.

Tesco are really making an effort and produce some good free from foods (particularly their free from chocolate - the nearest thing to milk chocolate without the cow.)

[Lan]

Hi all,

I use Pure when I have butter as I find it nice to the taste and easy to use in recipes.

I think that Sainsbury's have created their own free from butter as well. Has anyone tried it yet?

Kind Regards,

Lan.

:D

[astra]

Originally posted by Lan@May 9 2004, 12:42 PM
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I think that Sainsbury's have created their own free from butter as well.  Has anyone tried it yet?


yeah i did, wouldn't buy it again through choice, is all a matter of personal taste tho!

i found it to be very much like 'gold' the dairy butter spread stuff, it is pale in colour and i found that it had a taste of it's own, whereas pure sunflower is just as it says on the tin, a spreadable marg and it's got a very mild taste i find. i found the blue pure disgusting and threw it straight out, so the sainsburys one isn't *that* bad!! i

[Copper]

Yes I have got through a whole tub of Tesco dairy free marg all on my own :P

It tastes fine to me. It doesn't really appear to melt on the toast but then I smother it with jam anyway :) I can't remember how much it costs but I can check this week. Pure does not contain any calcium and as you know I have a thing about calcium at the moment. At least I know that I am getting some calcium with the Tesco marg.

[Copper]

I checked the price today and it is 79p. :)

[valeriell]

Hi: I have tried Pure Sunflower,which I like, Pure Soya, which I don`t,
Sainsbury`s Dairy free spread, which is not to bad. I have not tried the Tesco one yet.
But my favourite is just calld DAIRYFREE from the Coop. I do most of my shopping at the Coop. Some of the smaller branches don`t have this in stock but I get it in their supermarket and I requested it in a smaller store and they got some for me which sold so well they thanked me for the tip.
They also sell SOGood and Alpro dairy free milks as well as their own brand longlife soya drink, either plain or sweetened, which is handy to take on holiday etc.

[kelly]

With regards to Pure,
I like the Pure sunflower (so does my 2-yr old son, who can't have milk) which Safeway used to sell, but now they have stopped. They only bring the Pure soya which he can't have (we have to avoid soya too) and Pure organic (more expensive).

I have used the Pure sunflower in baking a dairy-free birthday party and every receipe I used it in it worked fine.

Kelly.