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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - good or bad

joshuaperson
joshuaperson Posts: 50
in Food and Nutrition
As far as candy bars go, would you consider reese's PB cups to be a healthier option?

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  • fangedneko
    fangedneko Posts: 133 Member
    Healthier than?
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    I made a biiiig mistake eating a whole bag of the minis at a movie (not that tiny bag, the bigger bag) without calculating the calories first. Went WAY over that day. They have a high calorie punch, but are so delicious! Coconut filled candy bars might be another option. I suppose peanuts and coconut at least have some kind of nutrient in them haha.

    But, you don't eat candy bars for health benefits (since even the peanut butter must have a lot of sugar added), so just eat to enjoy and fit it in! Plan for it and go for it :)
  • silverraiyne
    silverraiyne Posts: 683 Member
    Good! Oh so good!!! :-)
  • silverraiyne
    silverraiyne Posts: 683 Member
    On a similar note, have you tried the Butterfinger Cups? OMG!! Sinfully delicious :devil:
  • socalkay
    socalkay Posts: 746 Member
    If they are the dark chocolate kind, they are close to perfect (perfect yumminess, that is) . Not sure about healthy.
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    I have had so many this year that I'm completely over them. You can get better chocolate for the same nutrition/less money (they are relatively expensive in the U.K)
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    If they are the dark chocolate kind, they are close to perfectly yummy.

    Ooh, must find these! Only ever seen the milk or white chocolate ones
  • Maryam2014mfp
    Maryam2014mfp Posts: 174
    I think it is one of the better ones. I like it because it has some protein (peanut butter). It's mostly just chocolate, icing sugar and peanut butter, so it's still not exactly healthy; but I consider it one of the better ones. I use them when I am hypoglycaemic and need to bring my sugars up fast before passing out. Take care
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    If you're going to eat candy, just eat whatever you like. There ain't a whole lotta nutritional differences. Certainly not anything to be worrying about. It's candy. Treat it as such.
  • FitnFeistyLyness
    FitnFeistyLyness Posts: 757 Member
    i get a piece of high quality dark choc 72%
    a spoon of pb or almond butter

    a healthier reeses.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,150 Member
    On a similar note, have you tried the Butterfinger Cups? OMG!! Sinfully delicious :devil:
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    If you're going to eat candy, just eat whatever you like. There ain't a whole lotta nutritional differences. Certainly not anything to be worrying about. It's candy. Treat it as such.

    +1
  • socalkay
    socalkay Posts: 746 Member
    I just ordered a bag of Lindt dark chocolate truffles on Amazon a couple days ago. Anticipation of their arrival is huge! I now try to get high cocao dark chocolate for health benefits. Once you get into dark chocolate, regular chocolate is too sweet. I don't kid myself that the dark chocolate on Reese's peanut butter cups is hi-end dark chocolate but it was just what peanut butter cups needed and the one convenience store chocolate I like (Skittles are good too, but that's not chocolate).

    Anyway, healthy be damned, I want some chocolate. I just try to keep it down to a small treat at the end of the day that fits in my calorie goal.

    My dark chocolate does fall into the peanut butter jar sometimes...
  • Elsie_Brownraisin
    Elsie_Brownraisin Posts: 786 Member
    If they are the dark chocolate kind, they are close to perfectly yummy.

    Ooh, must find these! Only ever seen the milk or white chocolate ones

    If you have a B&Ms in your town, they often have them in stock. They have a lot of American chocolate in there actually, for a fraction of the price of what the sweet shops charge. E.g Oh Henry!, Butterfingers and lots of Reeses stuff.

    But you can make your own with dark chocolate - I make a Nigella Lawson version for my son's parties, they're very good and you can put better quality chocolate on them than Reeses: http://goodyfoodies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/recipe-peanut-butter-squares-nigella.html
  • joshuaperson
    joshuaperson Posts: 50
    i get a piece of high quality dark choc 72%
    a spoon of pb or almond butter

    a healthier reeses.

    I do this too! or melt dark choclate and almond butter.. yum

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