January 11, 2013
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Resolution Shopping
As I wandered the aisles of the grocery store today, I decided to hunt for some peanut butter with only “peanuts” on the ingredient list. I don’t want palm oil and salt and sugar. Just peanuts… But that’s a different rant.
I was shocked to find another non-food product on the food shelf. I saw… get this… CALORIE FREE peanut “spread”… This is supposed to save you the calories of peanut butter. Really!!? Peanut butter is highly nutritious! Peanut butter and whole grain bread will sustain the human organism with almost no other help in a pinch… Amazing food!
So let’s take all the value out of it.
The ingredient list was a mile long as well with lots of partially hydrogenated mystery chemicals too…The world.
Is a strange place.
Comments (12)
You can grind your own peanuts into peanut butter if you buy a grinder. A food processor might be less work.
Calorie free peanut butter must be like that plastic “fiber” they were feeding cows for a while.
@Roadkill_Spatula - I have a screw type juicer that will make nut butters, but I haven’t found a good source for the nuts themselves as yet. It’s hard to buy large quantities of nuts without salt etc… I don’t know why that’s so tough.
I didn’t buy the real peanut butter either. I tend to eat the whole jar all at once when I do. No restraint lol…
I couldn’t believe I was really seeing that product on the shelf. Just shock…
Ish,
I’ve made my own peanut butter in the blender before. I had to use a tbs of olive oil to keep it moist enough, but it was still pretty good.
Will blender work if you add peanut oil?
Lucky for me, I don’t care for pnb…
Your food preferrences sound a bit like husbands daughter. She is ALL into organics, healthy eating, etc.. She has her own organic laying hens. Grows her own organic stuff. I think her being a food nutritionist might have something to do with it..
It is scary how much industrial waste people are willing to eat purely in the interest of saving a few grams of fat or a few calories.
Just avoiding all the industrial non-foods will go a long way to helping get healthier and even helping them lose weight.
@anvilsandedelweiss - Truth is I just don’t have the nuts or the space to do it myself right now.
@my0615 - I’d look up instructions online if I were you. I found a wealth of information from one search
@armnatmom - I’m pretty picky about my food in general. I used to work out all the time and got really intense about my dietary choices. I haven’t eaten fast food in almost ten years – except for a taste to be polite here and there.
@mrcolorful - I know exactly what you mean.
Ain’t it?
Fun read but yeah, I agree.
This last year or so we have really focused on only eating whole, real foods. Anything that comes mixed has to have healthy ingredients you can pronounce, and not a long list. My most prominent thought about this lofestyle change is this: it should not be so f-ing hard to avoid eating chemicals and other forms of poison. Sheesh. What has this world come to?
Wow that’s a scary product!
I avoid hfcs in my peanut butter. we had a fishers nut store down the road where you could grind peanuts into pb. It was great…I miss it. garsh i pity the fool who buys that calorie free stuff!