Amazing how we guilt ourself - or allow others to guilt us! I am so glad to find this thread and to hear all the ButterSnackers in harmony - and losing weight too! I used to wake up thinking of toast or grits or something hot that I could put butter on. Now that I'm getting positive feedback on butter as a snack, I think I can let go of the notion that I need starch to go with butter!

Julia Child's "My Life in Paris" contains a marvelous bit in which a French chef explains to her that adding butter or cream to a dish was a way to stop the cooking, to flavor a finished dish. She had formerly thought of sizzling butter as a way to START cooking eggs. He taught her to coddle an egg to custardy finish and then add butter or cream to enrich the dish. Oh, yum!

Think French! Bring on the butter! A little dab'll do ya' - me too!