What are your thoughts on peanut butter??

Its my drug of choice. I have it everyday.

I usually use almond butter but it's a great high density snack and I love to dip foods in it (from fruit to carrots to celery). Awesome.

I like it. Good source of healthy protein and fats. Just count it and you will be okay. One of my favorite breakfasts/snacks is - 1 1/2 t peanut butter spread on 1 piece of whole wheat toast and covered in 1/2 a sliced banana.

To me peanut butter is just one of the choice of spreads I can have on my bread. Never eat peanut butter on its own.
Nutella on the other hand, I don't like it on bread but I obsolutely don't mind scooping them into my mouth.

Love the all natural peanut butters. They're the only ones I eat. I'm always looking to add protein to my snacks and peanut butter is one of the easiest to incorporate.

It's yummy...but I've replaced it with sunflower seed butter. I originally switched to almond butter but it was too firm & nutty flavored...sunflower seed is almost an exact match for PB in consistency & flavor (and better for you)

What makes it better for you? And could I make it in my cuisinart?

I love peanut butter. When I was young and on an unnecessarily restrictive diet, I used to dream if it every night. Now I don't eat it much because it's hard for me to limit my portions, but when I do have it I make my own in a food processor. It's fast, easy, and it avoids all the sugar that I think tends to trigger me to want ALL THE PB.

Also, it's like an addictive substance for dogs. Once (when I used to keep a jar of Jif on hand), my tiny dog apparently had the munchies, hopped on my counter, knocked an unopened jar of peanut butter from the top shelf of my cabinet (along with many other foods he rejected as inferior), chewed off the lid and protective seal, stuck his little head in and ate as much as a being with no thumbs could manage. When I got home it looked like there'd been a raccoon in my apartment, but the peanut butter in his eyebrows sold him out. He pretended to feel shame, but I think he thought it was all worth it.

Peanut, cashew, pecan..I love a good nut butter.

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I avoid it, not because of its taste (it's yum!) but because of the high calories.

That's why I don't eat it too. I also find it very more-ish, if I start eating it I just crave more and more, therefore I don't start.

It's disgusting but my dogs like it.

Used to love it, now can only eat it very sparingly as I have developed an intolerance to peanuts. So unless I want to deal with mild allergy symptoms it's a no-no.

Same here--but I get hives on my stomach that last for a couple weeks.

How can I say this??

PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! :laugh:

Mmmmm, just had peanut butter on a toasted crumpet

I have an unhealthy addiction to peanut butter and cant keep it in the house anymore unless I want to consume my daily calories in nothing but the stuff!!! It's so amazingly yummy !

Oooo WHERE do I begin?


My stupid food scale decided to forgo the option for working correctly this past weekend & I had to guesstimate all my food choices.

It was fun. It was liberating. It was a disaster. :noway:

Apparently, somebody can't control themselves when it comes to cashews, or cashew butter....and I can swing with that, ok...so I can't have these in the house....

Now it would appear as though crunchy peanut butter falls under the heading of 'contraband substabce'.

bah.

I love 1/2 an apple sliced and I dip each slice into peanut butter. I make sure I only use 1 tablespoon of peanut butter. That makes a wonderful snack for me during the day when I crave something filling and sweet.