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Unsweetened peanut butter
On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:08:40 -0500, zxcvbob >
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>Chemo wrote:
>> On Sep 6, 12:41 pm, zxcvbob > wrote:
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>>> Why is it so hard to find? Every brand has some form of sugar as the
>>> 2nd ingredient after peanuts. Even the "natural" pb's are "peanuts,
>>> sugar, palm oil, and salt" (they took out some of the good peanut oil
>>> and replaced it with nasty greasy palm oil) I guess it's natural
>>> because they used sugar instead of HFCS, and palm oil instead of
>>> hydrogenated soybean oil. Sweetened PB works just fine for cooking, but
>>> not for eating on a cracker. I used to make my own, (the new blender
>>> made me think of it again) the trick will be finding salted dry roasted
>>> peanuts without a lot of MSG and yeast extract and dextrose and crap
>>> added.
>>>
>>> The best peanut butter I've ever eaten was made in the store at a
>>> Kroger's many years ago. They had a peanut grinder with a big hopper of
>>> redskin peanuts and you ground however much you wanted into a plastic
>>> carton. I liked the gritty texture from the skins -- although a big
>>> part of it might have been the novelty.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
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>> Try Adam's...my favorite.
>> http://www.adamspeanutbutter.com/product
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>That looks good. Not available here, even though it's distributed by
>Smucker's (must be a regional brand)
http://www.amazon.com/Adams-Peanut-B...+peanut+butter
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