I have been using the I Can't Believe it's Not Butter Spray A LOT. Tonight I poured some out of the bottle to saute some mushrooms and I spray it liberally on toast and microwave popcorn. The nutritional label says that 5 sprays is 0cal but I wonder how much you would have to use before you would count this as a point. Several tablespoons a day? Has anyone found the information for a larger serving? Up until now I haven't been counting it as anything, even if I use it on toast, for cooking, and on popcorn all in one day.
ICBINB is tricky stuff! It's nothing more than liquid margarine and the whole bottle is something like 900 calories. Check out this thread for more info: Can I go butter crazy?!
butter spray is pure fat. I looked it up at calorieking, 1 tsp is 20 calories and 2 grams of fat and 1 point. 1 tbsp is 60 calories and 6 grams of fat and 2 points.
25 sprays is 1 tsp. so if you use 25 sprays a day, I'd count that as 1 point per day. If you use more, you need to calculate accordingly.
I found this on the web for you:
12.5 sprays has 10 calories and 1 gram of fat, 25 sprays (1 teaspoon) has 20 calories and 2 grams of fat, and 37.5 sprays has 30 calories and 3 grams of fat.
Apparently there is a fat-free version of "I can't believe it's not butter". When I looked for more info on the toppoing spray, it says this:
Great for topping and cooking, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® Spray is the perfect choice for fresh veggies and grilled chicken. Fresh butter taste at your fingertips with zero fat and calories and no Trans Fat per serving.
recidivist... there is no fat free I can't believe its not butter spray. It says 0 calories, 0 trans fat because its true... for 1 serving, it has no calories. Multiple servings is different.
They do have a fatfree spread but not a fatfree spray
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter makes a spread that comes in original, light, and fat free. As far as I can tell from their product page, the spray only comes in one version, the one we're talking about in this thread. Here is their product line up: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Products.
The reason they can say it's zero fat and calories per serving is that they define a serving as a 1/3 second spray. And there are 904 servings in the bottle using this definition! In reality, it has major calories -- 900 per bottle.
I have seen a few products of butter powder or salt that also say they are 0 fat and 0 cal. Would these taste ok? Has anyone tried them? Just wondering if it would be better for things like veggies and popcorn. I would still use the spray on toast I guess.
Butter flavored salt doesn't contain butter. I use some on popcorn, but it IS a lot of salt.
You'd be a lot better off using canola oil or EVOO instead of I can't believe it's not butter spray to cook with. The stuff is margarine, which usually has transfats. If the ingredients include partially hydrogenated anything, then it has transfats - which is absolutely worse than real butter.
Personally, if I want something to have a butter flavor, I use a little butter. I probably eat about 1tsp of real butter every day in or on something and it's totally worth the 1 point in my opinion. You can add butter and canola oil in a pot/pan to make the butter flavor spread around further and the canola oil counts as a healthy oil.
Remember that if something seems to good to be true - it probably is.
Hey, Im not new to WW, I started at 295 8 years ago, lost 130lbs & have kept it off until recently I had spine surgery, now Im 185. So while Im not new, I have a trick, I like to eat the 100 calorie microwave popcorn, but Im curious If there are hidden calories, or health concerns, so feedback would be great. My trick is that i spray the popcorn with butter flavored pam cooking spray. The label says it has no fat, calories, or anything, but it tastes great, with a sprinkle of salt, like the movies. Thoughts?
Points in Butter Spray?
Check out this thread for more info: 
