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Alternative to peanut butter?

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edited January 12 in Food and Nutrition
I love to have an apple with peanut butter everyday for lunch. However, 2 tbsp is 200 calories! Any other suggestions so I don't use so many calories for this one item??

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  • Posts: 2,390 Member
    run for 20 minutes later.
  • Posts: 3,472 Member
    Only using 1 tbsp will cut out about 100 calories.
  • Posts: 283 Member
    I haven't bought it, but everyone suggests something called PB2... 45 calories for 2 tablespoons. It's a peanut powder you mix with water to make a paste. It's made by Bell Plantation
  • Posts: 22
    Almond butter has slighty less calories.
  • Posts: 135 Member
    PB2 like someone said. SO GOOD.
  • Posts: 2,390 Member
    Only using 1 tbsp will cut out about 100 calories.
    yeah, but then your ptions would be runny natural stuff or straight commercial stuff as anything in between wouldn't spread. And then if you didn't use high calorie whole grain bread it would probably crumble when you tried to spread it anyway...
  • Posts: 343 Member
    They have peanut butters with lower caloric counts.
    Compare the brands at the grocery store. There are even some with the same calorie count as others but twice as healthy because of being more natural. Like, at whole foods or similar places you can grind your own with a machine there and you know it's just nuts going into it. without preservatives and added sugar and stuff.

    Nuts are naturally pretty calorie dense but that doesn't make them unhealthy if eaten in moderation.
  • Posts: 566
    What are you trying to get? Just a yummy protein to go with apples?
    You could try a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese - I think a wedge is 35 calories. Probs not as much protein as PB but it must have some.
  • Posts: 3,472 Member
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    yeah, but then your ptions would be runny natural stuff or straight commercial stuff as anything in between wouldn't spread. And then if you didn't use high calorie whole grain bread it would probably crumble when you tried to spread it anyway...

    I thought we were just dipping our apples in the peanut butter..no one said anything about bread.
  • Posts: 97 Member
    I haven't bought it, but everyone suggests something called PB2... 45 calories for 2 tablespoons. It's a peanut powder you mix with water to make a paste. It's made by Bell Plantation

    That was going to be my suggestion....PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter
  • Posts: 97 Member
    run for 20 minutes later.

    This works too...or Go lift some heavy weights and eat what you want to.
  • Posts: 245
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    This works too...or Go lift some heavy weights and eat what you want to.

    Works for me!! :bigsmile:
  • Posts: 22,834 Member
    I feel your pain. I LUUUUUUUV peanut butter and do PB and celery all the time. I just chince on the PB as much as possible and compensate in other meals.
  • Posts: 80 Member
    The correct answer is, there's no alternative to peanut butter. It's the best thing EVER.

    Although I just ate an apple with some Gouda, so that might be a close runner up.
  • Posts: 117 Member
    I like to snack on sliced apples with lemon juice or cheese, but my favorite is Justin's almond butter.
    The nutritional density of nuts is enough to outweight the relatively arbitrary amount of calories you're consuming, but if that's what you're truly worried about then just cut corners elsewhere or commit to adding a small amount of exercise to your typical routine.
  • Posts: 459 Member
    I make room in my diet for natural PB - it's one of my staple foods - it is nutrient dense and has healthy/essential fats. I would rather eat 2TBSPs of it than say bread or dairy. It's very filling and satisfying, so I am very pro peanut butter myself, but if it bothers you try almond butter. Justins is very good (albeit a tad gritty)...
  • Posts: 1,653 Member
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    That was going to be my suggestion....PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter

    I've been eating this stuff almost daily for around a year now. Love it. I get it on Amazon.com and Netrition.com
  • Posts: 6 Member
    Try Better n' peanut butter, 100 cals for 2 tbsp. I love this stuff!
    http://www.betternpeanutbutter.com/index.php
  • Posts: 85
    http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=60891


    There's no alternative.. but if you make these and be very good... take one a day to get the peanut "kick"
  • Posts: 81 Member
    Peanut butter warmed in the microwave will spread easier.
  • Posts: 157 Member
    Ditto the PB2
  • Posts: 291 Member
    They're good calories assuming you're using natural peanut butter...just cut the quantity to one tablespoon per sitting rather than two
  • Posts: 75 Member
    I love peanut butter but now have found a love for PB2.
  • Posts: 271 Member
    The correct answer is, there's no alternative to peanut butter. It's the best thing EVER.

    Although I just ate an apple with some Gouda, so that might be a close runner up.


    BACON is the best thing ever. :)
  • Posts: 282 Member
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    yeah, but then your ptions would be runny natural stuff or straight commercial stuff as anything in between wouldn't spread. And then if you didn't use high calorie whole grain bread it would probably crumble when you tried to spread it anyway...

    What? I am so confused what this post is saying....sorry off topic...
  • Posts: 595 Member
    PB2, or trader joe's has a version that's already mixed up called 'better than peanut butter'
  • Posts: 1,265 Member
    Honey with cinnamon and a bit of protein powder or pb2 power mixed together. Dip the apple in it :)
  • Posts: 227 Member
    pb2 - very good!
  • Posts: 487 Member
    Chocolate.......................................
  • Posts: 2,474 Member
    I don't get the PB2 thing (added sugar). I would just stick with a natural peanut butter.
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