To feed my DD peanut butter

[dolallylass]

My OH is a health freak, hardly eats sugar, fats etc. I am considerably more laid back. I have just had a lecture from him about how peanut butter in the devil's food - and pretty much responsible for Americas weight problems. I thought nuts were good for us and some fats plus it's just lush. DD loves it too and has it on toast for breakfast.

You guys know everything - does the peanut butter stay or go?

DD eats it.

You DH is wrong peanut butter is not the cause. High fructose corn syrup and palm oil are.

I am a slender American who loves PB. PB&J even better.

There is style of peanut butter that is trash, the Skippy rubbish that is mostly sugar with a little pb. I avoid that junk like plague. It's supposed to taste like Nuts not Nutella.

YY to HFCS being the source of America's problems.

I grew up on peanut butter. I was a fussy bugger as a child and for about 6 years the only things I ate were peanut butter sandwiches, beef burgers and potato-based stuff. I am neither obese, nor undernourished. However, I also discovered other food, after I reached the age of about 10!

Anyway, the sugar-free stuff, which is what I give my kids, is perfectly good for you. My children eat too much of it, particularly one of them who currently (still pre-school) refuses to eat any kind of sandwich containing any other ingredient. I should be bothered by this but since I was exactly the same it is hard to complain!

Hazelnut butter is yummy too. I uses to mix in a little cocoa powder for dd when she was little, to make nutella-a-like.

The Aldi Specially Selected PB is really nice, and it's only £1.29!

peanut butter is great, esp the whole earth variety (to appease your DH)
I think it's glucose/fructose syrup and corn syrup that makes people obese.

oh someone already said that.....

There was a good US study on what foods fuel weight gain and peanut butter was not on the list. Chips, crisps, soft drinks, juice, processed meat. Nuts actually contributed to weight loss.

I would argue that it's crap on toast.
Straight from the jar with a spoon, alternating with nutella is the only way to go.

It also make superb chocolate peanut butter fudge...

No, no, no, you just don't understand you poor deprived limeys.
Toast must be still hot to impart flavour properly.
Ideally with strawberry jam.

Even better, slather PB on lightly toasted bread, and place under grill or three minutes. Luscious.

Recipe WelshMaenad?

It counts as a protein portion. For me it's the thickly buttered bread or toast underneath thats probably more of an issue

Agree that the toast you have it with is the problem. That's why I eat it with a spoon, and then dip the loaded teaspoon into a big tub of drinking chocolate powder.

(actually have not done this since I was a teen, but it was a truly excellent snack)

Peanut butter with Apple slices is rad! Or on celery.