hey,
How do you guys do peanut butter, ive been on ww for nearly two months now and have gone without peanut butter because it is 5 pts for 2 tbls! (or similarly for calorie people its nearly 200 cals for 2 tbls!) ahhh, i miss it soo much but on 20 points a day i can literally not afford 5 points on one spread-- please advise me!!
I feel your pain - I love peanut butter very much. I buy light peanut butter for the (marginal) calorie savings, and limit my intake to a tablespoon at a time - you can make a half peanut butter sandwich with only one tablespoon. I can fit it in, but not very much, and not very often.
I LOVE peanut butter...both as a yummy food AND as a go-to healthy food. I can't speak to the WW points, because I count calories, but I just rationalize that even though it's high in calories and fat, it's healthy fat and lots of good protein. Plus I only eat natural peanut butter - the kind that has two things on the ingredients list: peanuts and salt.
Since you're doing WW, you should definitely stick to your points limit...but once you can fit it into your limit, just remember that peanut butter is a great filling, nutritional food - regardless of calories and fat.
I eat peanut butter on a whole wheat English muffin just about every day - I find that it keeps me full longer than any other breakfast (and I love it so much!). If I have cereal or eggs or something else, I usually wind up having another snack, so I figure I might as well just eat the peanut butter anyways
That's how I get when there's something I "can't" have. That's why I never put anything on my off-limits list.
Sooo, my suggestion to you is to have some peanut butter. Whatever WW says - such as if they say 2 tbsp is 5 points - just eat a fraction of it. (Try to stick to natural peanut butter.) If you just put a little on a few crackers or on a sandwich, it's typically much less than a whole serving. 1 tbsp of peanut butter goes a LONG way. So that's my advice...just use a little bit when you get that craving, and then you'll probably save yourself from those obsessive cravings.
yeah I've been craving a PB & J sandwhich for like a week now. But it just isn't worth the points to me. I use reduced sugar jelly and 1 point bread, but I don't find it particularly filling. I have to eat at least 2 sandwiches, and then my points are all gone! So I've resisted.
I make pb&j sandwiches on those 100-calorie sandwich rounds and only use 1 tablespoon (actually I use unsalted raw almond butter but it's basically the same) plus 1tbsp jelly, and that's only 250 calories, which is like half a nutritious lunch, so I add an apple a yogurt and maybe a piece of dark chocolate and then suddenly it's worth using the points/calories bc it's an entire meal, not just a 200-cal snack.
You can have Peanut Butter; but here's my trick ... I buy a bag of baby carrots and I cut them in half and in half again (depending on size) to make nice fat carrot sticks. I put 1 tbl All-Natural Peanut Butter on a small plate with about 12-16 of these mini-carrot sticks, and dip them in the PB and there's my good, healthy, and very yummy snack ...
Like others have said peanut butter is actually a good food: it has essential B & E vitamins, plus magnesium, calcium, protein and other vitamins in it, so it is also a good fat; you can have Peanut Butter as your good fat for the day. Most experts recommend 1-2 tbl of good fat daily.
Be sure to buy All-Natural Peanut Butter which has only peanuts in it; no sugar, no salt, no additives, and non-hydrogenated which preserves the vitamin E and linoleic acid in it too; you must store it in the fridge. Before I do that though, I pour off the excess oil on top to bring the calories down a bit too; you can use that for something else or toss it. There is still plenty of oil left in it, but it will be even thicker.
PS ~ yes, and like FORESTROAD, I have peanut butter on a small wg bagel for breakfast 2 times a week; or on wg bread for lunch. Weight Watcher's wg bread is only 50 calories a slice; put 1 tbl on that and you have a 150 calorie snack; or use 2 slices and you have a 200 calorie sandwich.
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Last edited by Justwant2Bhealthy; 11-19-2009 at 10:36 PM.
Oh my gosh... no one's mentioned Better 'n Peanut Butter yet! This stuff ROCKS; it kicks peanut butter cravings, it's all natural, and it's 2 points for a 2 tablespoon serving. And it really does taste good. It's good in PBJs, and, if no one's looking, I eat it with a spoon. I use it to make peanut sauces in stir fry, too.
If you can find this, it's definitely worth trying!
Oh my gosh... no one's mentioned Better 'n Peanut Butter yet! This stuff ROCKS; it kicks peanut butter cravings, it's all natural, and it's 2 points for a 2 tablespoon serving. And it really does taste good. It's good in PBJs, and, if no one's looking, I eat it with a spoon. I use it to make peanut sauces in stir fry, too.
If you can find this, it's definitely worth trying!
***OH MY GOSH YES!!!*** This stuff is AWESOME!!! I found it at Trader Joe's and it's really really good. Only 100cal & 2.5g of fat for 2Tbsp...and like someone else said, 1Tbs is actually enough for 2 slices of bread...
its something i just accept the calories for or dont have. I hate the light peanut butters because all the ones i can find here taste sweet So i just have "real" peanut butter or none at all.
Have you seen Justin's 100 calorie Peanut Butter packs? They are 2 WW points, and they are delicious. You can buy them at http://www.justinspeanutbutter.com
Wow, I was in the grocery store about an hour ago looking at the peanut butter and wishing I could eat it. I'm doing WW too, and I can eat 26 pts a day...but it STILL seems like it's too many points for me to want...I just avoid it for the most part =/
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So i just have "real" peanut butter or none at all.
