posted on April 26, 2002 08:29:25 AM new
Has anyone here tried the new sliced peanutbutter? I comes in slices wrapped in plastic like American cheese. A sales rep gave me a package at the store yesterday. It's pretty neat stuff.
It tastes pretty good and isn't bad if you are single.
I imagine it would get costly with kids
Let me know what you think.
Joe B
posted on April 26, 2002 10:59:44 AM new
While I love peanut butter too much, I can't stand most store brands. They put so much sugar and salt into peanut butter that it tastes just like candy! Yuck!!
I once ended up with a small case of a local brand here that was with very little added salt and no added sugar. At first I thought it was a bit flat. But after a single jar, I greedily ate the rest. It was that good.
When I ran out, I went to the store and bought the usual brand: Jiffy, Peter Pan, etc. I open the jar, took out a half-teaspoonfull and put it into my mouth -- which I promptly spit out! >>Yech<< CANDY! Who wants to put CANDY in their PBJs?
So, the input I have to your question is this: instead of worrying about some new way to package peanut butter, why not try to make better panut butter in the first place? Crap packaged any way that you can imagine it is still crap in my book.
posted on April 26, 2002 02:46:12 PM new
Borillar- They have been making low sodium/low sugar and natural peanut butter for years! Where have you been shopping?
posted on April 26, 2002 03:03:11 PM new
First there was green ketsup and now sliced peanut butter! So, natural peanut butter has joined processed cheese. I wonder what ingredient is used to keep the peanut butter from sticking to the paper?
A fairly good name brand natural peanut butter without added salt and sugar is Smuckers.
posted on April 26, 2002 11:34:56 PM new
Thanks for the suggestions. However, in Portland, Oregon, they only carry one brand of non-Candyied peanut butter called Adams. Smuckers never made it here to the Pacific Northwest. Who would feed thier kids that other junk anyway? It sure wasn't that bad back in the 1960s when I was a kid.
"I wonder what ingredient is used to keep the peanut butter from sticking to the paper? "
That's the first thing that came to my mind upon reading JRB's post. MORE crud piled into peanut butter just to sell it and Be Damned what you make of it!
Sorry. I'm not trying to be negative, but peanut butter - which I love, has become a candy wasteland of food. It just makes me sick to think of anyone actually enjoying Jiff or Peter Pan, etc.
posted on April 27, 2002 06:12:33 AM new
I wouldn't stack the shelves with this stuff if this is what you want to know.
I don't care much for health food stores, mostly because I feel stupid lighting up the second I get out so I was quite happy when smuckers came out with their all natural peanuts only style which was the only brand my kid knew until he went to school.
Then one day he came home and announced he wanted to eat the school lunch. I was thrilled because 1) That much less work for me, and 2) Perhaps it meant more food diversity impressed upon him by his peers. All he ever wanted was P&J which I made with 100% fruit jam on Whole Wheat.
Then: "What did you have for lunch today?" "P&J." Over and over and over. Why? "Theirs doesn't stick to my teeth."
I've seen these. Wads of what hydrogenated-fats mixed with peanuts and Gods know what else with sugar & dye and grape concentrate on white bread. How can any dietician or U.S. institution feed this crap to kids in good conscious?
posted on April 27, 2002 06:37:14 AM new
You have not had that real "stick to the roof of your mouth" experience until you have had a FlufferNutter-peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff. Talk about sugar overload, this is insulin shock territory!
posted on April 27, 2002 11:48:59 AM new
Thanks for that recipe, palaco! Our local super-Supermarket has a peanut grinder and you can mix nuts and grind them up as you please for one low price. I'd rather mess up their blender/cruncher than my kitchen.
But honestly, I am not a health nut. It's just that most peanut butter brands are so sweet that they ought to be put in the Candy Isle of the grocery store, not in the Regular Foods section. I mean, at least with breakfast cereals, there is enough variety to please every palate and taste, from sugar-infused gut-bombs to sugar/fat/salt free grains.
posted on April 27, 2002 07:01:41 PM new
We use quite a bit of peanut butter but very rarely do we eat it on bread. Most of the time it is sauces for Thai food or candy.
I make a seseme/bourbon/peanutbutter fudge sometimes.
We have also been known to put it on waffles.
