On 9/6/2012 6:00 PM, merryb wrote:
> On Sep 6, 3:25 pm, Janet > 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Bob
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>> Do you shop Costco? Kirkland has their own brand and I believe it is
>> all natural, organic and unsweetened. I've heard that it is good.
>> Janet US
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> Don't know if it's organic, but it's just Valencia peanuts& salt.


There's no Costco around here. They are about to build one.

Bob