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Peanut Butter
Fairly new to nutrition and this forum actually...
I've been COMPLETELY avoiding peanut butter due to high fat content.
Recently, had a debate about it with my gf and been getting ads since. (Latest attached. I'm 100% convinced our phones listen and customize ads)
How many of you regularly eat peanut butter? Also, which is better for bulking, peanut or almond butter?
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Basically every day
Love it
There’s no such thing as a ‘bulking food’
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I like it quite a bit but for some reason find that I only end up eating it occasionally.
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I mix about a tablespoon of it with Greek yogurt and a scoop of whey. Sometimes I'll substitute coconut oil for the PB.
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Love PB. I should try to eat it more.
When trying to watch my carb intake, I eat a spoonful of PB and squirt a little grape jelly in my mouth. Glorious!
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i eat pb when bulking if i need to hit my calories easily
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[QUOTE=AdamWW;1616500021]Basically every day
Love it
There’s no such thing as a ‘bulking food’[/QUOTE]
This. I think I eat it literally everyday. Natty pb is also extremely nutritious and is only bad for cutting if you can't limit our intake of it at all. Which is fair because 2 tbsps is a complete joke of a serving of something so delicious, but I love it enough that I'd never cut it out of my diet jut to lose weight. I'd rather cut out any other "dessert" food or non-essential fat source just to keep my precious pb.
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[QUOTE=Strawng;1616520761]This. I think I eat it literally everyday. Natty pb is also extremely nutritious and is only bad for cutting if you can't limit our intake of it at all. Which is fair because 2 tbsps is a complete joke of a serving of something so delicious, but I love it enough that I'd never cut it out of my diet jut to lose weight. I'd rather cut out any other "dessert" food or non-essential fat source just to keep my precious pb.[/QUOTE]
If I had the ability to choose any whole-food item (single ingredient) and make it 100% calorie free... it'd be PB I think.
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I'd eat almond or cashew butter if it wasn't so expensive but peanut butter is very nice.
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Before moving to the US, I used to call Americans weird for eating peanut butter. Then I tried and loved it!
I always add 1 tbsp in my morning protein oatmeal, and it's a shame it's so caloric I can never fit as much as I'd love to into my calories.
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Peanut butter is life. The valencia peanut butter from trader joes is the absolute best imo. I mix it up with almond butter and peanut butter - both natty from Trader Joes.
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[QUOTE=astrocoyote;1616535061]Before moving to the US, I used to call Americans weird for eating peanut butter. Then I tried and loved it!
I always add 1 tbsp in my morning protein oatmeal, and it's a shame it's so caloric I can never fit as much as I'd love to into my calories.[/QUOTE]
Yeah... it's one of the only foods I could easily overeat enough of without feeling sick to the extent that would cause me to gain a LOT of fat.
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I only have it in uncrustables
But cookie butter (biscoff) which really is just fat I have a few times a week mmmmm
Generally not a nut butter person because taste. Bet cashew butter would be amazing though
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[QUOTE=AdamWW;1616522661]If I had the ability to choose any whole-food item (single ingredient) and make it 100% calorie free... it'd be PB I think.[/QUOTE]
This I agree with.
I really don't get how peanut butter is classed as high satiety, as one of my many stupid bulks I would eat over half a jar a day and still eat 4-5 other meals.
I personally don't eat it now simply for that fact self-control wouldn't be great. Peanut Butter flavoured foods e.g. Fibre bars, ice cream, cereal certainly 3-4 times a week.
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I use two teaspoons of it a day in my breakfast, and i've been losing weight pretty well with it(doing keto, so i'm keeping carbs almost non-existent most the time). Never really thought of it as a bulking food, it tends to be more important about portion sizes and how it's utilized that determines what it'll really do for me. I like to get Maranatha, cause it has the lowest sugar per serving(medical reasons) i've seen in a peanut butter(1 gram) - but if the store is out of that i'll get another brand with 2 grams, or else just use 1/4 cup whole peanuts to lower it to acceptable levels. All in all I think peanut butter itself isn't a bad food, just take caution in how you use it and you should be doing great.
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[QUOTE=AdamWW;1616538701]Yeah... it's one of the only foods I could easily overeat enough of without feeling sick to the extent that would cause me to gain a LOT of fat.[/QUOTE]
Yeah man, exactly!
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To those of you who say you mix it into your shake, oats, or whatever else: does it really mix all that well? I mean, spreading it on bread or a cracker is one thing, but actually stirring it into a liquid or a porridge seems like it wouldn't do all that well.
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[QUOTE=EliKoehn;1616572901]To those of you who say you mix it into your shake, oats, or whatever else: does it really mix all that well? I mean, spreading it on bread or a cracker is one thing, but actually stirring it into a liquid or a porridge seems like it wouldn't do all that well.[/QUOTE]
I heat up my oats and thus it melts. I assume others do something similar..
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[QUOTE=astrocoyote;1616573121]I heat up my oats and thus it melts. I assume others do something similar..[/QUOTE]
Yup!
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I'm not in love with it, but I eat it most days to bump my calories up. I usually heat it up in the microwave and then dip a banana in it
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[QUOTE=AdamWW;1616522661]If I had the ability to choose any whole-food item (single ingredient) and make it 100% calorie free... it'd be PB I think.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Have you ever tried the Walden Farm's 0 calorie PB? My sister used to eat it & I once opened the jar as a kid just to see what it looked like. Good fuking Lawd...I've never seen such a vile-looking sludge! & worst of all, it smelled like rancid fruit & chemicals. There's no chance I'd ever even try that "guilt-free peanut butter". I'm 99% sure that if there's a Hell, that's their answer to something as undeniably delicious as peanut butter.
[QUOTE=AdamWW;1616538701]Yeah... it's one of the only foods I could easily overeat enough of without feeling sick to the extent that would cause me to gain a LOT of fat.[/QUOTE]
Same. PB, sushi with white rice, & breakfast cereal are probably really the only foods that my body will allow me to eat absurd amounts of.
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[QUOTE=Strawng;1616656201]Agreed. Have you ever tried the Walden Farm's 0 calorie PB? My sister used to eat it & I once opened the jar as a kid just to see what it looked like. Good fuking Lawd...I've never seen such a vile-looking sludge! & worst of all, it smelled like rancid fruit & chemicals. There's no chance I'd ever even try that "guilt-free peanut butter". I'm 99% sure that if there's a Hell, that's their answer to something as undeniably delicious as peanut butter.
Same. PB, sushi with white rice, & breakfast cereal are probably really the only foods that my body will allow me to eat absurd amounts of.[/QUOTE]
Walden Farms PB tastes like a mixture of paint thinner, stomach acid, and rancid peanuts... my god it’s horrible..
That’s the wrath of God punishing WF for tampering with something so pure and beautiful. Hahaha
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[QUOTE=taydbear7;1616693131]Who doesn't like PB?[/QUOTE]
These people do exist... I feel like they must have a genetic trait somewhere that alters their taste perception, like how some people taste soap when they eat cilantro.
Hating peanut butter is like hating puppies, or freedom, or free money...
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[QUOTE=AdamWW;1616693491]These people do exist... I feel like they must have a genetic trait somewhere that alters their taste perception, like how some people taste soap when they eat cilantro.
Hating peanut butter is like hating puppies, or freedom, or free money...[/QUOTE]
People that hate PB is like hating sex.
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[QUOTE=taydbear7;1616693621]People that hate PB is like hating sex.[/QUOTE]
They can all GTFO!
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PB is life.
Jif only.
Creamy only.
Spoonfuls and spoonfuls straight into my mouth.
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[QUOTE=mikey09120;1616726671]PB is life.
Jif only.
Creamy only.
Spoonfuls and spoonfuls straight into my mouth.[/QUOTE]
no
no
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crunchy all natty...
TJ's has some good options
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Crunchy is way better IMO.
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It is really up to you! If you love peanut butter eat it every day! Personally I'm cutting rn and peanut butter is just too high calorically dense to fit in my calories rn if it fits your calories eat it! For me, it doesn't really matter if its peanut or almost lol