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FitNutz Peanut Butter Mix

By: Ellen | Sep 17, 2009

FitNutz Peanut Butter Mix comes as a powder for easy use and has an extended shelf life. It contains 91% less fat and 74% fewer calories than regular peanut butter. It is gluten free, contains no trans fats, no added hydrogenated oils, is cholesterol free, and is all natural.

It's kind of a strange idea, but quite interesting and definitely worth trying. I ordered a 5-ounce package of the Regular variety ($4.99) and a sample pack (single servings of each regular, pro, and chunky flavors, $1.99). The total price came to $11.98 with shipping - definitely pricey, but worth it to satisfy my curiosity!

One thing that drew me to this product was the fact that you control the consistency of the final spread. If you want creamier peanut butter one day and thicker the next, no problem. I scooped a couple of spoonfuls of the powder into a little cup and added the recommended amount of water. After mixing, I sampled a little bit of the final product before adding it to a sandwich. The taste is nice and peanutty; it's not as sweet as regular peanut butter, but I kind of liked that - it tasted more "natural". Pricey? Yes, but definitely worth a try.

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Better'n Peanut Butter

By: Sarah J | May 26, 2009

Better N' Peanut Butter ... really?! With such a strong sentiment, this was a must buy. Better N' Peanut Butter is a peanut butter alternative with 85% less fat and 40% less calories than regular peanut butter. There are also no refined sugars in this all natural spread.

The texture is pretty much exactly the same as your average peanut butter. It's smooth and spreads well. The taste is similar as well, but not exact, being slightly sweeter and not as nutty. Still, the taste is good and it makes a nice healthier alternative the the high fat, high calorie nut butters on the shelf.

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Justin's Organic Honey Peanut Butter and Natural Maple Almond Butter

By: Ellen | Mar 10, 2009

While I was in the grocery store yesterday, I passed by a man offering free single-serve packets of both Justin's Organic Honey Peanut Butter Squeeze Packs and Justin's Natural Maple Almond Butter Squeeze Packs. What could be better than portable peanut butter? I snapped up a few and practically ran home to try both of them. Before I did though, I checked the Justin's Nut Butter website to make sure that they were not part a part of the peanut butter recall.

I tried the larger of the two, the Maple Almond Butter flavor, first. And let me tell you, this was delicious. Superb. Fantastic. How many words can I use to describe it?! The texture was grainy and smooth at the same time, and the almond butter taste, while not exactly the same as peanut butter, was delicious and complimented perfectly by the maple sugar. I ate this plain in order to fully appreciate the flavors (I cut the packet in half to get all of the delicious almond butter out as you can see from the picture).

This single-serve packet contains only dry roasted almonds, maple sugar, organic palm fruit oil, and sea salt. Furthermore, each 32 gram (2 tablespoon) packet has a portion-controlled 190 calories, 16 grams of fat (25% of the daily value), with only 2 grams of saturated (10% of the DV), no trans fats or cholesterol, 65 mg of sodium (3% of the DV), 3 grams of fiber, 4 grams of sugar, and 6 grams of protein. That's a lot of calories and fat - as is usual with peanut butter - so try and make this 2 servings if you must have your (occasional) peanut butter fix.

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Justin's Organic Honey Peanut Butter

By: Liza | Nov 24, 2008

Get excited! Justin's Organic Honey Peanut Butter squeeze pack will give you a reason to keep on loving peanut butter. This is so scrumptious that you'll be thankful that it is available in a 100 calorie portion controlled packet. The peanut butter is creamy, rich and buttery just like a healthy organic peanut butter should taste like. It also has this soft honey taste that just adds to the whole sweetness of the peanut butter. The ingredients are simply: Dry Roasted Almonds, Honey, Organic Palm Fruit Oil, Sea Salt. Just delicious.

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Barbara's Bakery Peanut Butter Puffins Cereal

By: Maggie Hagan | Sep 22, 2008

Barbara's Bakery's Peanut Butter Puffins Cereal is all-natural and low in fat as well as wheat free. Having heard a lot of good things about , I knew I had to try it. I consider myself somewhat of a peanut butter connoisseur, so I tend to be picky when it comes to foods that are peanut butter flavored. In this case, I was extremely pleased with the taste which their website describes as "crunchy, lightly sweetened corn pillows made with real peanut butter." I would describe the taste as a less sweet version of Peanut Butter Captain Crunch, or similar to the peanut butter balls in Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs Cereal. This makes it quite delicious for snacking without milk as well, although I prefer them in milk and love that they stay crunchy and delicious.

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Skippy Natural Peanut Butter

By: Caroline Yoder | Jul 31, 2007

In recent years peanut butter has gotten some mixed attention. Many have lauded its abundance of healthy unsaturated fats, protein, and fiber. However, others have criticized the commercially prepared varieties of peanut butter for its trans fats. Skippy Natural Peanut Butter has eliminated the trans fat from its products. Partially hydrogenated oils no longer appear on the ingredients list but there is palm oil, which is highly saturated.

Skippy Natural comes in the two essential textures: creamy and crunchy. I personally prefer the creamy for its spreadability on items with crevices, like rice cakes, but the crunchy variety seems to be more widely available and is just as tasty. Skippy Natural tastes just like the original, and there is no need to stir it as it doesn't separate.

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Naturally More All Natural Peanut Butter

By: Ann H | Nov 27, 2006

I consider myself a simple girl, taking joy in the small pleasures of life like sunsets, summer breezes, fall foliage, and ... peanut butter! My love for peanut butter started at a young age when my 2 year old self and the rest of my little toddler-friends would be given our 3 o'clock snack consisting of apple juice boxes and Ritz crackers sandwiches made with JIF Creamy peanut butter. These days, you won't find me spreading the sticky stuff onto any Ritz crackers; no, instead I prefer to put it on apples, carrots, celery, and use it to make my absolute FAVORITE snack in the entire world: the peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwich!

In the past couple of years with the growing popularity of all things natural and organic, peanut butter manufacturers have been following suit in attempts to capitalize on the health craze by creating "all natural" peanut butters. Upon initially opening most of these butters, you are greeted with a shiny layer of oil on top of the dense peanut butter to which you are instructed to "stir to combine" the oil and underlying butter. Now this is fine and dandy; I don't mind having to stir like a madwoman, breaking out into a sweat if it means that I will be rewarded with some tasty peanut butter, but I have not been successful in finding a natural peanut butter that measures up to my favorite JIF Creamy.

I had just about given up the hope of finding a natural P.B. that satisfied me when Naturally More "All Natural" Peanut Butter caught my eye because of the tagline: "What peanut butter should be." I decided to replace the regular JIFCreamy PB that was already sitting in my grocery cart and give Naturally More a try.

When I opened the Naturally More jar, I was skeptical to say the least; there was the usual layer of oil, but this oil also had multitudes of little seeds floating around in it which I discovered were flax seeds. The Naturally More was A LOT easier to stir than the other natural butters I had previously tried; it combined quite easily and smoothly. I was eager to try it so I got out my baby carrots and went in for the dip: "Hoorah!" I was tempted to shout, for this peanut butter was simply divine! It definitely has a unique taste and consistency: slightly sweet but with a permeating "nutty" flavor. The flax seeds are an awesome ingredient, in addition to providing the Naturally More with an amazing texture and gusto, they are UNBELIEVABLY NUTRITIOUS making the Naturally More leaps and bounds better for you than your standard peanut butter.

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Diet Trash: Jif Creamy Peanut Butter To Go

Diet Trash is about the food products you might eat because you think you're doing something better for your diet, but you'll be surprised to know, they're not.

Thanks to SupermarketGuru.com who nominated this as one of their 'new product misses.' Jif To Go are single serve cups of peanut butter. They provide that ease of convenience factor that has become really popular lately, but the nutrition facts are abhorrent. Each Jif to Go cup has 390 calories, 32 grams of fat which is 50% of the RDA for total fat and 6 grams of saturated fat, which is 31% of the RDA for saturated fat. I could eat whole meals with less fat than that - and that's just the condiment!

Jif To Go is an absolute no-no.

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