Butter, olive oil blend doesn't satisfy

Land O' Lakes Butter With Olive Oil. $2.49 per 7-ounce tub.

Bonnie: Land O' Lakes now offers a tub spread made of my two favorite fats: olive oil and butter. I like butter for its flavor, olive oil for its nutritional attributes.

Compared to regular butter, this contains 45 percent less saturated fat and 50 percent less cholesterol. Both butter and this butter blend have zero grams of trans fat per serving.

If this sounds good to you, I'd suggest you try using this as a spread. For cooking or flavoring foods, I'd recommend your own blend using more olive oil, or simply olive oil, as you can save a chunk of change over this Land O' Lakes product.

Carolyn: I love butter so much so that my heart almost always sinks when I see a waiter place a cup of olive oil next to the bread basket. At that point I almost always ask for butter (as gauche as this may be), except in a few rare cases where the olive oil is of such high quality that I actually enjoyed using it alone.

The olive oil in this new Butter With Olive Oil is not in that league, because though it tastes very strongly of olives (unlike, say, the wannabe olive oil Mediterranean Blend from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!), repeated uses sent me running back to my tub of 100 percent Land O' Lakes Butter. Fellow butter lovers will probably feel similarly. And I suspect people who love olives and olive oil will be happier (and nutritionally better off) dipping their bread in a high-quality 100 percent olive oil. In other words, this product seems perfect for nobody.

Nestle Juicy Juice Immunity, and Brain Development Fruit Juice Beverage. Apple, Grape (Brain Development only), and Berry (Immunity only). $2.99 per 33.8-ounce tetra carton.

Bonnie: Juicy Juice just introduced two new 100 percent juice drinks for children. The Brain variety contains the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), which is important for proper brain and eye development, especially during pregnancy and infancy. The primary food sources of DHA include oily fish (such as herring, salmon, sardines, rainbow trout, canned tuna) and organ meats. Infants can get the DHA from breast milk, fortified formula and now this Juicy Juice.

I recommend this variety both for pregnant women and for 1- to 2-year-olds, the time when their brains triple in size. Just keep in mind that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limiting fruit juice to 4 to 6 ounces daily for children ages 1 to 6.