Diet Food Reviews
Diet Trash: Jif Creamy Peanut Butter To Go
By: | Aug 1, 2006
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.
See more on: Condiments
, Diet Trash
, peanut butter
| 7 Comments
7 Comments
Leave a comment
Recent Reviews
What We're Cooking
- Weekly Healthy Meals & Menu Plan. Gear up for the Holidays
- Recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Apples
- Weekly Healthy Meal & Menu Plan Pre-Thanksgiving
- Simple Quick & Easy Tossed Salad
- Weekly Healthy Meal & Menu Plan for the Start of the Holiday Season
- Low Calorie Lunch: Bell Pepper Tuna Boat
Saving on Healthy Foods
Top 20 Tags
Recent Comments
amanda commented on
Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte: This is one of my favorite holiday drink
... more »
Melissa commented on
Chex Cinnamon Cereal: Cinnamon Chex is probably one of my favo
... more »
Amy H. commented on
Landgarten Organic Snack Mix: Thought you might want to know that Land
... more »
Sarah commented on
Hello World. Welcome to the New and Improved Iateapie.net: positively LOVING the coupon section
... more »
Jillian (back to the nest) commented on
Hello World. Welcome to the New and Improved Iateapie.net: The new stuff is fabulous!
... more »
Lacey commented on
Hello World. Welcome to the New and Improved Iateapie.net: I love the new look!
... more »
Joanne commented on
Recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Apples: I am on such a roasted apple kick lately
... more »
Tanya commented on
Weekly Healthy Meals & Menu Plan. Gear up for the Holidays: Let's not even talk fantasy football! I
... more »
Jillian (back to the nest) commented on
Low Calorie Lunch: Bell Pepper Tuna Boat: I tried this! It was so delicious. I s
... more »
Tanya commented on
Step Right Up Folks and Get Your Free Sample of Lipton Tea: Looks like this offer is over - that was
... more »
Laura commented on
Step Right Up Folks and Get Your Free Sample of Lipton Tea: I'm all over the green tea - but where i
... more »
Tanya commented on
YoCrunch Candy Swap: Should have added *1 candy wrapper per p
... more »
Tanya commented on
Healthy Choice Mediterranean Pasta: Testing
... more »
Peanut butter can be a very healthful snack item. I would rather see people have a peanut butter cup( ideally with some apple slices) for a snack rather then a 3 pack of tastykakes or a .99 bag of corn chips. it is not always just about the numbers- at least not in the real world!
RD in Philly
I would totally buy this product. It's a great traveling item with kids. I normally have to pack a jar of peanut butter and that's so big and bulky. Plus, my kids would share one tub to dip their apples in, so they wouldn't be eating a whole one at once.
390 calories is a LOT. Not to mention it's a silly concept all together: how hard is it to take peanut butter somewhere? Get some sauce containers next time you go to a restaurant.
The containers should at least be smaller, like half the size.
those are high-fat, but would be really convenient to take backpacking. when i go backpacking, i usually buy the smallest jar of peanut butter possible, so its easy to pack. when you're exercising all day, the calories and fat won't matter much. if you're sitting on your ass watching MTV, different story.
i love the idea, but i wish the containers were 1/2 or 1/3 of the size smaller, and i wish they would offer this packaging for "Simply Jif." Actually, I sent them an email suggesting that quite awhile ago...haven't heard back...
You can purchase the individual containers online with only 3/4 oz of peanut butter. The site is minimus.biz, and they sell small containers of everything. PB is not inherently bad simply because it contains fat, portion control is the key. The 3/4 oz. container is just right for one apple or 1/2 of a bagel. They travel good too and are great for backpacking.
Alright... I am a CONSTANT dieter and granted, this would not be healthiest snack. Hands down though, I LOVE Peanut Butter on a Banana. I argue though it may be 'almost' easier transferring a small portion of peanut butter into a small sauce cup, consider the spoon you have to lick and having to clean the container out later (not fun). I think I would sooner recycle this prepackaged plastic container... just a thought.