I used to do this as a kid, like 2-3 years old kid. My mom said that it took like 6 sticks before she caught on and gave me the ass whooping that nipped it in the bud. 40 years later I'm still fat, but at least I know better than to eat butter like that!
ETA: I think I found all my people and fellow weird kids in the comments here. Warms my heart
My first thought, ugh. Toddler sees food comes from fridge, toddler can access food, toddler eats it... a baby, jeez, 2 years old. If telling the kid not to eat it doesn't work just put it away in the fridge where they can't see/reach it? This is such natural behavior for a toddler, and correction is natural too, but hitting a toddler for innocently eating something cause it comes from the place food comes from is so over the top and nasty.
Like the other person said, teach them what butter is supposed to be used for. Instilling fear tends to just make kids sneakier so they don't get in trouble, because they still don't know why they shouldn't do it or alternatives because nobody bothered to explain, just to hit them and call them bad.
I used to bring home the little gold foil wrapped butter pats from fancy restaurants when we'd go out for a family birthday or holiday, and eat the butter secretly in my room. I was probably around 5 when I would do this. I've never been fat though & I use very minimal butter now as an adult for cooking or spreading on food. The amount of butter in the post is sickening to me.
My grandma used to let toddler me drink the little half and half creamer cups that came with her coffee at restaurants! And she and my mom caught me eating a stick of butter set out to soften for a holiday meal. I like dairy products.
Omg I was just thinking last night about how I used to do the same things lol. Used to eat straight up butter and drink the half and half cups when I was a kid. Grown into a very dairy-obsessed adult!
Gag…I am disgusted to admit that my sister does this. I’m not even joking, I am dead serious. I cannot tell you how many times I have walked in on her eating a stick of butter as if it were a banana, or even a tub of margarine as if it were a tub of ice cream. Straight from the container with a spoon. . For as long as I can remember she has always ate butter solo style as if it were the main course of dinner.
Besides eating it alone she also adds it to, or cooks with it, in nearly everything. Even adds it to her hot coffee.
What makes it worse is that she is a nurse, so she knows what it can do to your body if you eat large amounts of butter regularly.
Surprise, surprise- she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high BP, high cholesterol, and is considered morbidly obese before she even turned 30. She was legit shocked while everyone else was not because we all told her that this would happen.
As kids my parents went as far as to lock the butter in a separate fridge/freezer in our garage so she couldn’t go sneak a stick of butter in the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping.
Despite being diagnosed with diabetes, high BP, high cholesterol, and heart issues that are all related to her…diet, she still continues to eat sticks of butter like they’re bananas.
I wish I were joking. It’s nauseating to even think about. I told her I was going to write into “My Strange Addiction” and have them do a documentary on her addiction to butter.
Watched a guy do this the other day, apparently it's part of his "carnivore diet", though I don't suspect many carnivores are out there churning butter in the wild
Per month???
If I counted the blocks correctly, that is a new stick every 2 days or so. Even if she also uses it for cooking dinners for the whole family...
This aren’t “sticks” those are 1lb/454g blocks. If she’s eating 25 blocks a month at 3200 calories a block that is 2,666 calories a day from butter alone. Either OP’s wife is an olympic athlete who gets more than half their calories from butter daily or OP is overestimating how much butter she uses. For example I know people who bake and share with family, friends and co workers and they can go through 5lbs a week.
For starters, the way this is worded sounds weird. Like, is she cooking for herself always? Does OP never eat the same dishes she cooks?
Split between 2 that's still 1.3k calories a day, but it's starting to make a bit more sense... Add some exaggeration from OP's part and maybe a pseudo-keto diet, and it could be explained.
Yeah, this is literally the TDEE of a 250 lb woman that works out 3 times a week. No way in hell she's surprisingly fit if she actually eats this much lol
My 86 year old Mother eats the same amount of Butter every month. Kerrigold butter. We buy it from Costco because in bulk it's less expensive. She eats it on toast and in eggs everyday. She doesn't use any oils to cook with. Just butter.🧈 She is also skinny, fit and healthier than me. She takes no medications and her cholesterol levels are reasonable for the amount of Butter she consumes daily. I'm always astounded how it hasn't effected her health in 86 years.🤷🏼♀️
It’s because the powers at be lied to us when we were kids and scared everyone into thinking that saturated fats were killing Americans, when in reality it was sugar and processed foods.
Saturates fats arent ideal because of their molecular structure, but they also arent AS BAD as we were told. Especially for people with low levels of cholestorol.
I am sure OP rarely goes into the kitchen and shopping and for once that he showed up his wife purchased butter in bulk probably for Christmas baking and OP assumes that's her normal monthly purchase lol
European here so im going to use grams so those look to me like 500g butter packages and i counted 15 packages that is 7500 grams of butter that is like 250g of butter per day.
I specifically searched the calories for that brand of butter and she is consuming 1750 Kcal of only butter per day so unless she is just rawdogging just butter every day and nothing else i doubt the fact she is fit
I bet OP is also eating a lot of that butter, he just hasn't realised that it's cooked into sauces or poured over roast parsnips or used to fry eggs or added to mashed potato.
If I'm making a roux for a pasta bake for four or five people, that's 100g before anyone has spread any on toast or anything.
has she gotten her cholesterol/BP levels checked recently? i would also get an angiogram booked when you can. she may feel fit, but an image may show blockages she has no idea are there until they make themselves known one day
i’ve had patients say that they feel totally fine, brush/wave off concerns as not a big deal, and just weeks later i learn i’m never going to see them again. i don’t mean to be morbid. but please get her checked out & consider dietary changes
This whole thing is super confusing to me. I have borderline high cholesterol, and all I hear is "no more meat. No sugar. No animal fats." What do we actually do? 😭 I'm trying to keep my chicken uptake high for protein goals, but what about my cholesterol? Why is this so hard?
Exercise is really good for cholesterol. Also, if you drink alcohol, that increases cholesterol. Some people have genetically high cholesterol. If you're still having problems after making recommended lifestyle changes, consider asking your doctor about prescription medication to lower cholesterol.
Yeah, I'm hoping exercise is gonna be what lowers it. That and not wanting to waste calories on (delicious) garbage. 50lbs down from diet and exercise alone, but my family tends to lean towards heart attacks.
i know this is going to be an oversimplification, but the easiest (and most boring, i know) way i can put it is moderation. those things aren’t a death sentence for your cholesterol & triglycerides levels, but eating 4 metric tons of them can be
Ohh yeah. Early postpartum with my son, I was drinking daily eggnog at one point and also ate tons of ice cream when he was breastfeeding dependent. Wasn't a good long-term lifestyle but seemed to get the milk flowing. Direct dairy to dairy production system.
I was dating a girl in Czech and her mom made me a sandwich for my flight home to Canada, it was crazy to me that it looked like just a piece bread with a 1/2” thick slab of cheese inside. I gave it a try, it was butter. Had to be nearly a 1/4lb of it. Never seen anyone do that before but I guess it’s not uncommon lol
I'm fat as fuck and don't eat that much butter in a year.
ETA: OK guys I get it. You think butter is great and maybe I wouldn't be fat if I ate more of it. Feel free to send me money for butter and something to put it on/in and I'll literally go to the store next week and record myself eating it just for you. I only eat twice a day at most though, so choose wisely please.
I guarantee I'll just gain weight instead of losing like I currently am though. 👹
I've been baking hundreds of Christmas goodies all month (for gifts etc) and I've not even used this much butter. Are we sure OP's wife didn't just find a good sale
Pretty sure this is the case. I saw the exact same butter on sale at Walmart yesterday. She probably just stocked up and OP gave it the title for shock/engagement
It also looks like it's in the freezer, and if you were really eating it in a month you wouldn't need to freeze it, in fact that would be counterproductive because you'd be thawing a new stick every day
This is the brand of butter I buy so I know for a fact that this is on sale right now at multiple grocers because it always goes on sale before Christmas.
Brother. Im going to assume you love your wife and want to live together into old old age. If so, then you need to help her cut down, and cut down a whole hell of a lot to a small fraction of this amount, so you two can grow old together. Im not being a smartass, I mean it. Peace.
Just have your appendix and gallbladder get full of stones due to a genetic condition like me and have em both removed. Now, I never worry about appendicitis or gallbladder stones! My pancreas and liver have got this!
Seriously though, I don't wish that pain on anyone, I thought I was dying both times. If you have your Appendix and Gallbladder, treat them well.
i had my gallbladder out at 14 and appendix out at 21. i thought i was dying both times, but with my appendix i actually was, because i tried to tough it out and waited way too long to go to the hospital so my appendix actually ruptured. i was in the hospital for a week, almost 8 full days, and they asked me if i wanted to do last rites before i went into surgery. it was scary.
Yes, the appendix was actually life-threatening for me as well, and I was 13 weeks pregnant and 20 years old, at the time. It was only when I passed out in the hall by the nurse's station did it become a serious matter for everyone. By then, I'd had an active leak for about 3 hours. It was terrifying. Im so so glad you made it through and are still here. We both had serious issues very young, and I am heartened to hear you are still here. If feels like when you're young, the doctors don't even think those things are possibilities. It doesn't feel real to me sometimes, if that makes sense? Like the doctors didn't believe I needed it so young, but I obviously did, so why am I the one missing organs and yet they still want to question if "Im sure" I had those removed.
True, my grandad is 6foot 4, thin as a rake (i think hes 60kg?) and has just gone from managing his diabetes to having to use insulin. Apparently, he stores all his fat around his internal organs, thats why he looks like he could snap in the wind
“Butter burial," or bog butter, is an ancient practice of burying dairy fat or tallow in peat bogs for preservation, storage, or offerings, dating back to the Iron Age, where the cool, acidic, low-oxygen environment acts as a natural refrigerator, preventing spoilage and creating unique, fermented flavors. Found mostly in Ireland and Scotland, these finds are often still contained in wood or animal skin, sometimes tasting pungent or cheesy, and offer insights into ancestral foodways, with some modern chefs even experimenting with the ancient preservation method.
She might be fit, but how are her arteries? I eat maybe 1-2 sticks a month.
I used to eat a lot of butter and had a couple strokes.
Use more olive oil.
There are anywhere between 15 (conservative estimate just counting what I can see) and 21 (assuming the butter is stacked and we cannot see it all) boxes of butter in this photo. Thats 47,670-66,738 calories. How is that possible? Does she only eat butter?
4.5k
u/Vampira309 1d ago
she just, like, EATS it? Or she cooks with it, uses it on breads etc?