Peanut butter?

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  • chani8
    chani8 Posts: 946 Member
    I tried using a tablespoon vs weighing it. No way was that gonna be honest enough. After all, there is a tablespoon and then there is a TABLESPOON. You know what I mean. Weighing is more honest, and with something as calorie packed as peanut butter, it's kind of important.
  • MrsFowler1069
    MrsFowler1069 Posts: 657 Member
    I tried using a tablespoon vs weighing it. No way was that gonna be honest enough. After all, there is a tablespoon and then there is a TABLESPOON. You know what I mean. Weighing is more honest, and with something as calorie packed as peanut butter, it's kind of important.

    Or an ice cream scoop. lol
  • Turtle003
    Turtle003 Posts: 133 Member
    I LOVE Peanut Butter so much I had to switch to the powdered version. All that's in it is roasted peanuts, salt and I think there are 1-2g of sugar added depending on the brand I buy. I mix it with water and eat it everyday on wheat toast with a cut up banana. Nothing more amazing than Peanut butter banana sandwiches! Of course I would rather have regular full fat PB but I want to be helathy more :)
  • igotabulletproofheart
    igotabulletproofheart Posts: 104 Member
    I prefer using an digital scale for the small things like peanut butter (my manual scale is so big and stupid when comes to anything below 50g :frown:) because I don't trust the term "1 tbsp". It's too general. Does it mean heaped tablespoon or what?
  • mmm_drop
    mmm_drop Posts: 1,126 Member
    Mmm. I love peanut butter. I use a scale for mine; I have to or I will just keep eating! :D
  • MissKitty9
    MissKitty9 Posts: 224 Member
    I just use a tablespoon--- the "serving" on the level is actually 2 tablespoons, usually, so I'll do one heaping tablespoon & log it as two.
  • 1stday13
    1stday13 Posts: 433 Member
    Ever try PB2? I love it ! I put a pinch of Truvia and pinch of salt to me tastes as good as the real thing. 1 serving is 2TBL powder mixed with 1Tbl water =1.5 gr fat, 5 gr Carb, 2 gr fiber 1 gr sugar 5gr protein.
    Oops person below be just mentioned it too :laugh: Basically it is peanuts with all pressed out and rest turned into powder. Can't get much more pure than that :wink:
  • skyekeeper
    skyekeeper Posts: 286 Member
    I use a food scale

    This ^^^ and measure by the grams.
  • Bekahmardis
    Bekahmardis Posts: 602 Member
    I weigh the whole jar, remove what I eat, then weigh the jar again and subtract the two....
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    PB is incredibly calorie dense so I weigh it. That and trying to get a good tablespoon measure with something that sticky is frustrating.
  • 1stday13
    1stday13 Posts: 433 Member
    PB2=Oh, and only 45 Cal per serving.-1Tablespoon
  • maillemaker
    maillemaker Posts: 1,253 Member
    . Do people measure it out using a teaspoon?

    I use a teaspoon to eat it! :)

    Steve
  • amberx1127
    amberx1127 Posts: 45
    I just bought this powdered peanut butter at whole foods. It is called "Just Great Stuff Organic Peanut Butter". I was VERY skeptical at first because I was like EW powdered peanut butter???? But I read about it online and people were saying it is great so I decided to buy it anyway. I tried it and it tastes GREAT! you just mix it with water. And even better it is only 45 calories per 2 tablespoons and only 1.5 grams of fat, when regular peanut butter clocks in around 180 calories and 16 grams of fat for the same serving size!
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member

    It's actually more convenient to put the jar on the scale, tare it, measure out the amount of peanut butter you want (the scale reads negative at that point), and put it on whatever you're putting it on. That way you're still also weighing the inevitable smidgin that gets licked off the knife that didn't get weighed on whatever you put it on.

    Love this tip, would be LIFECHANGING, except my scale doesn't do negative. After zero it goes to bars. :sad:
    Well, you could still do it, just without zeroing it first, then do a teensy bit of arithmetic. I should have thought to add that to my original post.

    I also like PB2, but lately I've found that meeting my protein needs while staying in my calorie limit means I'm often under on fats. (I do IIFYM) So at the end of the day I'm usually tinkering around with my diary trying to find the exact amount to decrease my lean protein at dinner by and the exact amount of peanut butter to eat to meet my daily macros. Using PB as a fat source like that when I don't have many carbs left usually means stirring it into Greek yogurt, which is actually quite good!
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    I use a food scale

    Ditto. When I give myself a tablespoon...I tend to give myself way too much.
  • 1princesswarrior
    1princesswarrior Posts: 1,242 Member

    It's actually more convenient to put the jar on the scale, tare it, measure out the amount of peanut butter you want (the scale reads negative at that point), and put it on whatever you're putting it on. That way you're still also weighing the inevitable smidgin that gets licked off the knife that didn't get weighed on whatever you put it on.

    Love this tip, would be LIFECHANGING, except my scale doesn't do negative. After zero it goes to bars. :sad:

    I'd be shopping for a new scale ASAP!
  • laceylucas86
    laceylucas86 Posts: 120
    Peanut butter on toast is my diet salvation! It's very filling and satisfying. Sure, it's not a low-calorie food. As long as you carefully plan for the fat calories (no one should be eating a 0% fat diet, gee whiz!), it fits nicely in with any healthful eating plan. Like ANY calorie dense food, it is not suitable for mindless snacking, of course.

    In my case, I actually use it /specifically/ to add healthy fat to my diet because I find it's terribly easy to end up cutting fat way too much.

    I always measure peanut butter using a food scale. I put the plate and the bread on the scale, tare it to zero, and then add peanut butter until it weighs out at 15 or 16 grams per tablespoon. I always feel like if I used a volume measure like a tablespoon, not only would it be inaccurate but I'd end up leaving some portion of the precious peanut goodness on the spoon instead of in my mouth.
    It's actually more convenient to put the jar on the scale, tare it, measure out the amount of peanut butter you want (the scale reads negative at that point), and put it on whatever you're putting it on. That way you're still also weighing the inevitable smidgin that gets licked off the knife that didn't get weighed on whatever you put it on.

    OOOOH smart! I like it :) and you don't dirty up a measuring cup/spoon too! ha ha thanks
  • kimswisher
    kimswisher Posts: 32 Member
    I use it in my breakfast smoothies for x-tra protein. I measure it with a tablespoon. All natural, nothing added but the nuts, and I drain off the excess oil.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    First of all, I want to say that I LOVE peanut butter. A lot of people justify snacking on PB with the thought "It's protein, so it's good for me." Not exactly true, though.

    First of all, take a look at the nutritional information and listed ingredients on your jar of peanut butter. My much-loved jar of Jif lists the follwing ingredients:

    Roasted peanuts
    Sugar
    Less than 2% of molasses, fully hydrogenated vegetable oils, mono and diglycerides, salt.

    The nutritional information for 2 Tablespoons:

    190 calories
    16 g fat (equivalent to 144 caloies)
    8 g carbs (32 calories)
    7g protein (28 calories)

    So you can see that peanut butter is really more fat than anything else, and 144 calories is about 75% of the total calories in Jif peanut butter! We should really be thinking of peanut butter as a fat, not a protein.

    As another example, my jar of Smuckers natural peanut butter contains just 2 ingredients: peanuts and salt. No added sugar. The nutritional breakdown is almost the same: 190 calories,16 g ft, 6 g crbs, 7 g protein. It has slightly less carbs because it has no sugar.

    I think of it as a healthy fat with protein. Nothing wrong with that! Great fuel.
  • kimswisher
    kimswisher Posts: 32 Member
    use a measuring tbsp
  • kimswisher
    kimswisher Posts: 32 Member
    Is she human?
  • tmpecus78
    tmpecus78 Posts: 1,206 Member
    Get a food scale. turn on scale (make sure you are measuring in grams). place the jar on the scale. grab a spoon eat the PB straight out of the jar (subtracting from the initial weight). :drinker:
  • mallen404
    mallen404 Posts: 266 Member
    I measure out a tablespoon.... besides it's protein so it's actually good for you. A bit of calories and fat isn't going to hurt you.

    This! I use a tablespoon.

    Peanut butter is delicious!
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    I measure my peanut butter/cookie spread on a food scale.

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