Nut Butters, good or bad?
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I love peanut butter but don't find it satisfying so I eat it occasionally as a treat. I do have a great stew recipe that uses peanut butter in it.0
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justinbracken wrote: »PB2 is a good substitute if you're restricting your fat intake or have already met your fat for the day but still want the flavor.
If you LOVE peanut butter, PB2 is just NOT a good substitute. Ewww. . . LOL0 -
I use mini-chocolate chips for the ghost eyes. And sometimes I'll use almond bark instead of the white chocolate. So cute and easy to make. Everyone loves them.
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I'm a vegan and peanut butter is my religion.0
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Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
I use mini-chocolate chips for the ghost eyes. And sometimes I'll use almond bark instead of the white chocolate. So cute and easy to make. Everyone loves them.
Get the mini nutter butters, some hershey kisses and mini chocolate chips... melt the chocolate chips, adhere the hershey kisses, using the melted chocolate, to the mini nutter butters and top that with a mini chocolate chip and you have an acorn...
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Sesame tahini is useful for lots of recipes, like sauce for japanese noodles and shrimp, or to make baba ghanoush (although technically it's from a seed, not a nut.) Nut butters aren't just for spreading on stuff. You can make all sorts of tasty things from it.0
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I eat my oatmeal with peanut butter or cookie spread almost every morning. This works out to about 350-400 calories. It has not caused weight gain yet.
Most people seem to recommend it more for boosting calories when you struggle to meet your goal. A lot of people fresh to their weight loss goals struggle meeting their goal because they find that 'healthy' food tends to be more filling that what they used to eat, without realizing that many high calorie foods actually are healthy. So, nut butters, avocado, nuts, peanuts, etc can be eaten to prevent them from eating too few calories.
If you think the calories are too high for your goals, PB2 is pretty good. I like mixing it with milk instead of water. Makes it creamier.0 -
Weell, I like peanut butter also. What you could do is warm up the PB so you can more easily spread a small amount onto bread. Or, instead of bread, eat a small amount on celery. That way, sure, you might be eating 2 tbsp, but you will be able to spread it on maybe 4 pieces of celery and have a hearty snack.0
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I love *all* the nut butters! There's no way something so good could ever be bad. I have a couple of servings every single day. Nom.
I currently have at home; Meridian crunchy peanut butter, Meridian Hazelnut butter, Meridian almond butter, Meridian Cashew butter, Hognuts cinnamon bun crunchy peanut butter, Hognuts chocolate salted caramel crunchy peanut butter, a jar of homemade smooth roasted peanut butter, and Marks & Spencer crunchy peanut, pecan, and maple butter. All of them except the last one have no added nasties ... the M&S one does have a significantly longer list of ingredients than the others! 0 -
I won't eat any nut butters because I think they smell bad, but I do like pumpkin butter, sunbutter, and WOW! Butter. The calories are ridic in WOW! Butter and Sunbutter though. Pumpkin butter is pretty much 0 calories.0
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Food is food - it is neither good or bad. You also need to look at the context of your overall diet and not individual foods.
No food can cause weight gain or loss by itself, again it's your overall diet and calorie balance that matters.
Never seen any reputable diet advice that "encourages eating peanut butter for weight loss", strongly suggest you change your sources of information if you have been reading that! How on earth could eating a high fat, moderate protein, calorie dense food encourage weight loss? Makes no sense!
Eat it because you enjoy it and because it's a good source of fat and to a degree protein - just measure it carefully.0 -
i eat almond butter everyday i will have a 30g serving with an apple as a snack its nut butters are a good fat0
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I love peanut butter. I always have, and I always will. I dip my baby carrots in it. Awesome evening snack for me when I need it. I've recently tried Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter. It took a bit to get used to it being really runny, but I found that refrigerating it helps quite a bit.0
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So, if it fits my macros I'll eat it.0 -
loribethrice wrote: »I won't eat any nut butters because I think they smell bad, but I do like pumpkin butter, sunbutter, and WOW! Butter. The calories are ridic in WOW! Butter and Sunbutter though. Pumpkin butter is pretty much 0 calories.
Do you mean pumpkin seed butter? If not, then what you're eating is more like a pureed veggie than a nut butter...still delicious though!
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