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<p>Using butter is not the problem unless one is eating gobs of it every day. The point of using a from scratch recipe is that you can modify it. There’s no reason to use tons of sugar if you don’t like too much sweetness. You can probably use half the recommended sugar or even less and still get a great cookie. When you use a mix, you’re stuck with the sugar. Make it from scratch and you can control how much of the “bad stuff” which goes into it.</p>