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    Are Americans Weaned on Peanut Butter?

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    • Posts: 2,493 Member
      edited September 2015
      nikol_xix wrote: »
      Is it good for a low-calorie diet? I heard that it contains a lot of protein ,but I'm not sure if this can help me to loose weight

      It won't help you to lose weight. No food will.

      The only thing that will do that is a calorie deficit.

      If peanut butter makes up a part of your dietary intake during that calorie deficit, then you're golden.
    • Posts: 900 Member
      Peanut butter and apples is the best combo.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      edited September 2015
      No, it doesn't really have a lot of protein; it has some.

      It is high in calories.

      Many people find it filling, and many people like it (I don't, as discussed above). (I like peanuts well enough, many other nuts (actual nuts) more, none of them much in nut butter form for texture reasons, although I've always found the just plain peanuts (with or without salt) or almonds versions better than the bigger commercial brands, which I hated as a kid, so I'm likely not in the majority here in lots of ways.) Anyway it is fine to eat when losing weight -- having the lowest calories isn't everything -- but I wouldn't make a huge point of adding it in unless you enjoy it. But you very well might, most seem to.
    • Posts: 88 Member
      I love me some peanut butter and jelly samich with a glass of milk late at night.
    • Posts: 130 Member
      I am one of the many who are obsessed and the texture is my favorite thing about it!! :)
    • Posts: 4,131 Member
      edited September 2015
      I hate this thread. I want all the yummy spreads now, it's unfair they don't all always fit into my calories! (but 2T of PB usually will! On celery... with an apple... in my homemade "cliff" bars... Overnight oats... protein shake... thai peanut sauce stirfry and/or noodles... thai pizza...mmm...)
    • Posts: 68 Member
      edited September 2015
      Whitezombiegirl wrote: »
      It's gross to me too. Almond butter on the other hand.. Yum!.


      Funny, I hate almond butter! I prefer freshly ground peanut butter that I make in my blender. It is so yummy. I have never been as much of a fan of the artificial PB as I am natural peanut butter. I remember eating a whole jar at a time at some points during my childhood.
    • Posts: 68 Member
      Machka9 wrote: »
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      Nutella, I like. I have a skiff of it on toast most Saturday mornings. :)

      Nutella is very good. It tastes like fancy nut flavored chocolate. That is why I banned it from our house. It is too good!
    • Posts: 68 Member
      edited September 2015
      aggelikik wrote: »
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      You know what I find to be really good is raisins and almonds. They taste great together.
    • Posts: 68 Member
      jgnatca wrote: »
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      You beat me to it, and thank you. There's a rich history surrounding the peanut. I'm fifth generation Canadian immigrant, itself a rare thing. Most of my ancestors came from Scotland. I have a little of that heritage left but love of oatmeal is certainly featured. Visiting the old homestead with grandpa we found an old peanut butter tin nestled in the foundation which grandpa recalled fondly.

      Peanuts, potatoes and oatmeal were the cheap, nutritious miracle foods for the masses back then.

      It's because potatoes and oatmeal are so filling.
    • Posts: 68 Member
      edited September 2015
      esaucier17 wrote: »
      I didn't realize other countries besides the US don't have or really like peanut butter! I ate a ton of it when I was a kid...so much that I don't really care for it now as an adult. I do like peanut butter flavored desserts or candy...like Reece cups, yum! But just peanut butter on a sandwich or on celery or apples...eh veryyyy rarely do I crave it or even like it that much. My son and stepson however could eat it everyday...they love it, especially with grape jelly on sandwiches:smile:

      Doesn't Thai food have a lot of peanuts in it? I remember they have a great peanut sauce.

      My son isn't a great fan of peanut butter, but he does like it on bananas.

      Oh, if some of you want a good way to have peanut butter, try to put it on pancakes! Pancakes with peanut butter are great!
    • Posts: 4,131 Member
      bjess8411 wrote: »
      Oh, if some of you want a good way to have peanut butter, try to put it on pancakes! Pancakes with peanut butter are great!

      Chocolate chip pancakes with PB is what makes life worth living.
    • Posts: 2,604 Member
      momoharuno wrote: »
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      You know, I have heard of several African dishes that use peanut butter in them, I would love to try them someday I love trying new cuisines I just find it very interesting :)

      When I was in Zimbabwe, my host's favorite food was "peanut butter rice". It was basically just white rice with peanut butter mixed in. It was really good, but kind of strange too.
    • Posts: 772 Member
      Let's just say that I was shocked that my child didn't come out made of peanut butter. I have loved it since I was a kid. I LOVE PEANUT BUTTER. I love the smell and the taste. I only had nutella once on little cookie sticks in the vending machine in Germany. It was good, but it wasn't peanut butter. I don't know why it is so amazingly delicious to me, but man... PEANUT BUTTER. What I don't get is the bacon train that has rolled into the station the last few years. Even when I ate meat, I didn't like bacon that much. I think people talk about bacon so much because they think they're supposed to? It's just weird that it has exploded
    • Posts: 68 Member
      lemurcat12 wrote: »
      I never heard of this ranch on pizza thing until I came to MFP.

      It's an outrage, I tell you. Where is the America of my youth? I don't recall Alex P. Keaton eating ranch on pizza.

      (Okay, I don't really care that much, but it sounds unpleasant.)

      It is so unhealthy, but oh so good. I just discovered it myself a few years ago I think because a pizza restaurant I know serves this awesome dressing on their salads that is tasty on bread and sometimes I dipped the pizza crust in it.

      Oh and maple syrup and PB is so good. That is why it is good on pancakes. Pancakes is just bread so it really isn't weird to put on it at all. PB2 is an excellent low calorie substitute on pancakes.
    • Posts: 67 Member
      Though not exactly peanut buttery tasting, there is a savoury~sweet peanut chutney/powder in Indian cuisine. Totally yummy! Can be had over hot rice and ghee, on dosas or on hot chappatis! Drooool!
    • Posts: 184 Member
      Just gonna pop this in here (I have two more that aren't pictured...) to say pb is perfect6ilzdik53s1z.jpeg
    • Posts: 1,450 Member
      I just had a shake made with milk, frozen banana, and a couple tablespoons of the new powdered vanilla peanut butter from peanut butter and co. ( the company that makes my favorite peanut butter, white chocolate wonderful). It was so yummy and worth using up the rest of my calories to drink.
    • Posts: 669 Member
      Aussie here, peanut butter is the bomb diggity
    • Posts: 1,941 Member
      i dont know about all american kids, but in my house, we ate jif daily. on a banana or piece of toast for breakfast, in a sandwich at school, on crackers for snacks.
    • Posts: 138 Member
      To further continue this discussion, those of you not from The States, what are some things that you're "weaned on" in your home country?
      Thinking on this further, wouldn't it be considered more of a national food rather than something the we are "weaned on"?
      For example in Iran, we were always having Feta, Rice and a carbonated yogurt drink...
    • Posts: 1,886 Member
      i ate a lot of pickle and peanut butter sandwiches as a kid.
    • Posts: 1,886 Member
      melimomTARDIS wrote: »
      i dont know about all american kids, but in my house, we ate jif daily. on a banana or piece of toast for breakfast, in a sandwich at school, on crackers for snacks.

      yup except we were a skippy house. I hate it in spoonfuls, pb&j, peanut butter and apples/celery, peanut putter banana and honey, as i said peanut butter and pickles. Im actually bummed because we buy no sugar/oil peanut butter and its soupy and grainy so i don't really ever touch it.
    • Posts: 4,301 Member
      I only need 60 TBSP's of Jif today to hit my Protein MACRO. IDK lemur cat is that a lot of peanut butter? Maybe I ought to check the fat content of 60 TBSP's.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      LOL, depends on your calorie goal, I guess. ;-)
    • Posts: 1,941 Member
      fishshark wrote: »
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      yup except we were a skippy house. I hate it in spoonfuls, pb&j, peanut butter and apples/celery, peanut putter banana and honey, as i said peanut butter and pickles. Im actually bummed because we buy no sugar/oil peanut butter and its soupy and grainy so i don't really ever touch it.

      natural peanut butter is just nasty, and i have tried several brands. Its like grainy/oily...yet also dry. Blech.
    • Posts: 4,301 Member
      lemurcat12 wrote: »
      LOL, depends on your calorie goal, I guess. ;-)
      The peanut butter has 12 grams of fat for 2 TBSP's. So, the fat would be 3,000 + calories. Hmmm, maybe I need to walk more than I think. . . .

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