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Friday Food Fight: Peanut Butter Organic vs Natural

May 3, 2013 by KerryAnn 14 Comments

Friday Food Fight: Peanut Butter Organic vs Natural

It’s Friday, so its time for another food fight! Every Friday we look at an ingredient, a decision or a process within the real foods sphere. This week we are going to look at if you should buy peanut butter organic, conventional or natural and why.

We love peanut butter and use it in a variety of dishes. Check out our recipes for Peanut Butter and Molasses Pancake Sauce, Peanut Butter Balls, and Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. Maybe you’d like Peanut Butter Fudge, Peanut Butter Blondies, and Three-Minute Peanut Butter Ice Cream. All are real food and real delicious, and some even contain hidden fruits and veggies!

Friday Food Fights

Food Fights might be as simple as why you should choose sea salt over iodized salt. It might be more complex, such as what soaking is, how to soak and why you’d want to do it. Grass-fed vs grain-fed. Pastured vs cage-free eggs.

What if I can’t afford the best, what’s the next best alternative? All of those decisions that are out in the real food world that are enough to make your head swirl. We’ll take it one bite at a time. Information is always easier to digest when it’s in small pieces.

We’ll start with the easier and move to the complex. As always, we will do so in a good, better, best format, with an eye on the budget. Some weeks, it will be a blog post, other weeks a video.

Reader Submission

In last week’s food fight, a couple of readers asked about peanut butter. Is it something that should be purchased organic or are the natural peanut butters on the market ok? So in this week’s food fight, we’re going to answer that question. Next week, we’ll cover organic versus non-organic sucanat/rapadura.

Have you covered Peanut Butter before? I usually get the Smucker’s natural peanut butter because of the ingredients (peanuts & salt) but it is not Organic. I have wondered if it is necessary to purchae Organic peanut butter though? Any thoughts on this?  ~Debra

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Company’s Coming, Don’t Panic: Nut Butter Cookies

April 6, 2011 by KerryAnn 2 Comments

From time to time, I get an e-mail from someone in a panic.  It usually looks something like this:

HELP!  I’ve got company coming to visit and we just had to eliminate gluten/soy/dairy/eggs/25 different foods! I need something quick and simple, because now I’ve got to start cleaning house to be ready for them to arrive!

Many conventional meals that Americans recognize are traditional foods and can be served to company without them batting an eye, even if you have many allergies in the family.  In this situation, I always recommend you go back to basics.  Here’s a list of possible meals to consider.

  • Roast chicken, sweet potatoes and a salad
  • Beef roast with potatoes, onions and carrots
  • Hamburgers on the grill with potato salad and baked beans
  • Pork loin and apples in the crock-pot
  • A pot of chili
  • Spaghetti
  • Barbecue anything, on the stove, on the grill or in the crock-pot

Provide easy and straightforward side dishes like white rice- avoid the bread if you have allergies.  Put butter on the table, or mayo if it applies.  For dessert, make a blender custard like the one in our Valentine’s Day issue, a pudding, or a quick bread from coconut flour.  Depending on your allergies, the nut butter blondies or simple nut butter cookies are great, too.  Whatever you decide, make sure it is sweet enough that your guests won’t reject it.

 

Simple Nut Butter Cookies

From the Menu Mailer

2 eggs, beaten
½ cup nut butter
½ cup rapadura (or ¼ cup rapadura and stevia to taste)
¼ cup coconut flour, optional
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt

Combine all ingredients. Drop by tablespoons on a greased cookie sheet and press down lightly with a fork. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.  Makes 1 dozen.

This recipe works well with any nut butter. We really like sunflower or peanut butter in these cookies.

 

This post is part of Real Food Wednesdays, Gluten-Free Wednesdays, Made from Scratch Tuesdays and Grain-Free Tuesdays.

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