"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
...
> 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.


Laura Scudders. "Just peanuts and salt, nothing else."

Paul