Pick a Peck of Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter is my “deserted island” pick. (Or is it “desert island”? Which makes no sense.)
Sometimes I act as if I am, in fact, on that island; I passed up a nice garlicy portion of pork roast last night in favor of PB toast. (Never mind I’d had it for lunch, too.)
Because of the sheer quantity I need (and it is mainly me scarfing the stuff — spouse is indifferent, 5-year-old dislikes it, 2-year-old is hit or miss), I often buy the industrial size Skippy or Jif. But I always feel guilty about that because of the added sugar and trans fat. Peanut butter officially gets a trans fat pass from the nutrition police — there isn’t enough per serving, they say, to warrant concern.
But what about the cumulative effects of that extra creamy goodness that only the man-made hydrogenation process can bestow? I just don’t believe them.
After all, I’m a walking experiment with more than 30 years on this stuff. Call me paranoid, but when recent research completely reverses itself on the peanut allergy issue — finding that it might be better to give kids peanut butter earlier, and even treating peanut allergy with small doses of the dreaded legume, I have to figure that the “Sudden Death of Peanut Butter Lovers Attributed to Trace Amounts of Trans Fat” study isn’t far behind.
Ever since trans fats became dietary health enemy number one, I have wavered back and forth — buying a tiny jar of organic Valencia-peanut peanut butter one shopping trip, a far cheaper and longer-lasting 4-pound industrial vat the next. Always wondering:
Why don’t they make bigger sizes of natural peanut butter for freaks like me?
Why must I wander in this organic peanut butter desert? (Or desert island.)
And then one day, I looked up, and there it was, in the dairy/tortilla/salsa/bagel/egg section (duh!). The humble, locally produced, fabulously delicious, decent-sized natural peanut butter of my dreams.
What’s your long-sought perfect thing? I’d love to hear about it.
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I want someone to sell me local, organic, pasture raised chicken and beef in some kind of accessible way. Actually, what I really want is a whole grocery store of beautiful, local, fresh, organic foods. That would be my perfect thing.
I’d love to see cheap vats of Renova (anti-wrinkle cream). Bring them on!
Calorie free chocolate, which does not yet exist. But there is a God, so I know that means it will exist some day.
Oh Sara! I make my own organic nut butters because I was having such a hard time finding one I liked. It’s a lot of fun.
My one, perfect thing is… [are] peaches. I roam farmers markets in the summertime, sampling everything I can looking for the perfect combination of sweet and tart. It’s quite a task, but one I’m willing to take on!
loved your peanut butter blog entry! I too suffer from never getting enough peanut butter. It also happens to be the favorite food of my two Labradors, Matty and Holly.
It’s a hard question, but for now … I’d have to say the hummus from Ali Baba Grill in Golden, CO. It’s unlike any hummus I’ve ever had anywhere else. Seriously addictive.
I’m trying to figure out how to make it at home, but all my experiments don’t even come close.
Mine is not a food. It is an entire room in my house devoted to books. A comfortable couch for reclining while reading, a ladder to reach the top shelves, and decent lighting, but mostly just shelves and shelves and shelves and shelves…..
Helllooooooo. I’d like to publicly point out that I was the one who originally brought that very peanut butter to your home. When I forgot to take it home with me, I never did get it back. I think even Lars ate some and liked it.
See? I love peanut butter so much A) brought it to your home to share the discovery and B) am commenting on your blog about peanut butter.
oh, and C) just seeing the picture of that peanut butter made me homesick and peanut butter sick (in a good way) – I miss that brand!
@ my sis: See, and I could swear it was a different brand you brought us! Where *has* my mind escaped to? I’d really like it back.
A bar of chocolate that has no calories and would give me all the nutrition that I need. Then I could eat chocolate all day.
Aw, man! I looked all over Rainbow for that peanut butter the last time I was there. I swear I looked in the dairy/eggs/bagels section, but somehow I missed it. I ended up with a small container of not-quite-as-yummy organic peanut butter that I’m sure won’t last me all that long. I’ll have to look harder next time I go. Or maybe I went to the wrong Rainbow? *Sigh*