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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 07:27 PM
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PSA: Reduced-fat Skippy is NOT peanut butter.
So I'm in my new place, complete with toaster (can the Ellen jokes, please; I'm male, and besides, it was a toaster oven), and I'm jonesing for a childhood favorite, English muffins with peanut butter. Off to Safeway I go. So as to try and reduce my considerable bulk somewhat, I go for the reduced-fat Skippy.

Only when unpacking same do I notice that it says "peanut butter spread, made with 60% peanuts"! It also includes soy protein, and, um, corn syrup solids. :shrug: It comes in the same jar as Skippy, but it is not peanut butter! :wtf:
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flying rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 07:59 PM
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1. I have gotten in the habit of reading labels
It definitely will give you pause sometimes. I have wound up changing my buying habits.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 08:06 PM
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2. My dear KamaAina!
Plus, it tastes awful!

There are easier, better ways to reduce your bulk...

:hug:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 08:11 PM
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3. Neither is regular skippy. The only use I have for that peanut flavored Crisco is
making fudge, cookies, or frosting. For toast or sandwiches I need the all-natural Smucker's or Teddy Bear smooth stuff. :D
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 08:20 PM
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4. Peanut butter is serious fucking business.
I won't buy anything but the cheapest generic peanut butter made with only 3 ingredients: Peanuts, salt, and some kind of vegetable/seed oil.

None of the name brands are real peanut butter any more.

I also discovered when I was in the south that down there they add Molasses in most of what they call "peanut butter." :puke:
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 08:32 PM
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5. I go with organic peanut butter
Regular peanut butter doesnt work when you are making Firecrackers.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 09:48 PM
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6. I can't stand Jif or Skippy.
They taste like peanuts, NOT like peanut butter.

And Peter Pan has too damn much sugar in it.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-09-09 10:44 PM
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7. EWW! YUCK!
:puke:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 02:44 AM
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8. scheduling KamaAina for an ass-kicking
for reading food labels at home instead of in the store; yes INDEED
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 02:46 AM
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9. If you don't have to stir it before you spread it...
it's likely filled with shit that will kill you.
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lizerdbits Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 01:02 PM
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16. Whole Foods had one of their store brands
(365 I think) that didn't separate but didn't have hydrogenated oils, and not much sugar. I liked it.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 02:48 AM
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10. I get the hippie kind that you grind at the store and take home in a little deli tub.
It actually tastes like peanuts and not like congealed oil and added sugar. Crazy idea, I know, but it grows on ya.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 02:56 AM
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11. Whole Foods used to have a machine that allowed you to do that.
It was very handy, and since you refrigerated it immediately, it never separated!

:hi:
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 02:59 AM
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12. Damn hippies!
:*
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 04:53 AM
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13. All Skippy is like that --my Ag prof once told us they sell the peanut oil
and replace it with vegetable oil --increases their profit margins. :shrug:

i still like crunchy Skippy (regular or reduced fat) in the same way i like Taco Bell. i can like them without thinking they are 1) peanut butter 2) mexican food.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 08:17 AM
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14. I like the new Jif Natural
I hate the grittiness of the organic/natural/health food store type peanutbutters. I love regular Jif, but started eating the new Jif Natural. Wish I could find it in bigger jars.
http://www.jif.com/natural.asp
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 09:45 AM
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15. I did the same thing, but by mistake.
I wasn't going for lower-fat or "diet" PB. Just grabbed the wrong jar.

We'll eat it, then get the normal stuff when it's gone.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 09:24 PM
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17. I have a love hate relationship with peanut butter. I hate the stuff filled with lard or icing
sugar (or whatever the filling is). But I hate how the health food store 100% pure peanut butter separates into oil and butter.
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 09:26 PM
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18. I think I just threw up a little.
Dude. Go for the organic 100% peanut stuff.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:21 PM
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19. All California is not the Haight-Ashbury, I'm afraid.
Edited on Thu Dec-10-09 11:21 PM by KamaAina
Or Berkeley, even. This is unfancy northeast San Jose. All the upscale markets are downtown or to the west. Here in Berryessa, it's Safeway or bust. :(
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