Pure Goodness Product: Natural Peanut Butter
Ingredients:
Peanuts, contains 1% or less of salt (can get unsalted version)
Lengthy List Loser:
Ingredients: Peanuts, sugar. Contains 2 percent or less of: molasses, fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed and soybean), mono- and diglycerides and salt.
Do "choosy moms" really choose Jif (or its counterparts)?
A few notes on Natural Peanut Butter:
Reason you might not love it:
It's not sweet!
Reason to love it anyway:
Unless you are spreading p.b. on crackers or something, you almost always eat it with something sweet anyway (with jam or honey on sandwiches, in cookies...) so skipping the sugar in the p.b. isn't even noticeable. Plus you can always stir in a bit of honey if you need it sweeter and know exactly what you are getting.
Reason you might not love it:
It separates!
Reason to love it anyway:
If you rotate the way you store it, you don't have to worry about it. Just put it away upside down one time and then right side up the next time.
Reason you might not love it:
You have to refrigerate it and that makes it hard to spread.
Reason to love it anyway:
According to one p.b. connoisseur, if you eat it fairly quickly you don't have to refrigerate it (refrigeration is to keep it from going rancid). Also, some brands get harder to spread than others. We love the Adams brand, but it does harden in the fridge. The natural organic p.b. from Costco stays spreadable so we usually go with that one.
Enough said!
Reason you might not love it:
It's not sweet!
Reason to love it anyway:
Unless you are spreading p.b. on crackers or something, you almost always eat it with something sweet anyway (with jam or honey on sandwiches, in cookies...) so skipping the sugar in the p.b. isn't even noticeable. Plus you can always stir in a bit of honey if you need it sweeter and know exactly what you are getting.
Reason you might not love it:
It separates!
Reason to love it anyway:
If you rotate the way you store it, you don't have to worry about it. Just put it away upside down one time and then right side up the next time.
Reason you might not love it:
You have to refrigerate it and that makes it hard to spread.
Reason to love it anyway:
According to one p.b. connoisseur, if you eat it fairly quickly you don't have to refrigerate it (refrigeration is to keep it from going rancid). Also, some brands get harder to spread than others. We love the Adams brand, but it does harden in the fridge. The natural organic p.b. from Costco stays spreadable so we usually go with that one.
Enough said!
2 comments:
These posts are so clever! Keep 'em coming.
I recently bought the Adams no stir version and while it doesn't have sugar it still has the oil to keep it smooth. But I might just go back to the refrigerated kind.
We have been using this for quite some time and have learned to love it. Like you say, we add our honey or jam to top it off anyway. I'm all out right now...thanks for the reminder to go and buy some!
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