PB & J

Real men and women never compromise their peanut butter. You have my highest praise.

I'm big on Trader Joes and I've wondered about their PB. On your recomendation I'll try it. I'll put it right next to my double jar pack of Skippy from Costco.

I really like PB&J, especially with straberry jelly.

I really like PB and honey, or PB and honey with bananas.

I get bored pretty easily though, so I don't eat sandwiches all that often.

Today for breakfast I had Kashi Go Lean Crunch with Very Vanilla Soymilk.

Lunch (which I am currently enjoying), is two rolled up tortillas with Taco Bell Hot Sauce (a must have of mine), a CLIF builders bar (20g protein, flavor chocolate), some pretzels and some cantaloupe.

Dinner is supreme vegetarian nachos.

laldc wrote:

I do everything I can to eat healthy foods, rarely eat fast foods and am an avid ingredient reader on all packages.

There is one thing I REFUSE compromise.

Skippy chunky peanut butter is one of the greatest products created by mankind.

I don't care how much sugar is in it, I will never give it up.

Since childhood, I have eaten it on sandwiches, crakers, with a knife, spoon and my fingers and will continue to do so as long as I am on this earth.

Yeah, my preference for the no-sugar stir-it-up kind with generous amounts of honey is more of a taste thing than a health guideline. The interesting thing is, when I was younger I was told I was allergic to peanut butter (I know! it WAS really horrible!), so for a long time I never ate it, while my brother grew up eating and loving JIF creamy. After a while my allergy went away, or something, and by that time my brother was older and out of the house and my parents had gotten into the all-natural kind because of the whole trans-fat fiasco, so once I started eating peanut butter regularly that was what was available in the house. And ever since, my brother has continued to prefer JIF on taste grounds, and I have continued to prefer the natural stir-it-up kind on taste grounds, and we will never meet in the middle, except for a fight.

Anyway I like your style too, laldc. I think all peanut butter friends should unite regardless of ingredients, consistency, etc.

Consider this thread our place to unite.

I will never criticize a brand or type, and will volunteer to help those sad souls who put such a thin layer on the sandwich, it barely cover the bread. Load it on!!

You guys and girls are all my friends.

I, too, enjoy PB with bananas and/or honey.

Try this gem: PB (of your choice), sliced apples or bananas, honey sparingly drizzled, and a little cinnamon sprinkled on top - all over open faced toast! I was introduced to this as an "Elephant Sandwich." Which made me like it more.

Toast really mixes up the whole experience... When I was at Villanova, our dining hall occasionally had TERRIBLE desserts, and I would always go back to my staple favorite: PB & J on toast.

Hey! Who has PB on toast in the morning, but puts butter on the toast first? I do! For taste.

My son swears by PB&J with Wavy Lays potato chips in the middle. Haven't tried it yet be he makes a pretty good case with his constant" "mmmmmmm... this is soooo gooood" while he is eating it.

I have PB and toast in the mornings sometimes, it's usually on weekends, though. I have never put butter on before it.

I use Natures' Best All Natural Peanut Butter. It's great because it doesn't have any of the artificial stuff and you don't have to stir it. I'm not a fan of the stirring and I prefer the original taste, the stir stuff tastes very different.

I'm leaving for a meeting and I want to put one more thing out there: When opening a new jar, how much "sampling" do you do?

Is the sample size closer to a teaspoon, or tablespoon?

P.S. I'm making an Elephant sandwich ASAP.

I'm amazed at how many PB&J fans there are on here. Personally, I like PB and honey, the most. My wife has been giving me crap because I have peanut butter and toast for breakfast and then a peanut butter and honey sandwich for lunch. I like both the big name brand and the natural stuff, creamy and crunchy. They are all pretty damn good. Good on pretty much any kind of bread or bagel too.

Skippy is the best.

I love any kind of peanut butter, especially crunchy. The kind with the honey already mixed in is good. I like to put peanut butter on a toasted English muffin with a little bit of sugar-free syrup and sliced banana. I know that sounds weird to mix syrup with peanut butter, but it tastes good.

i have whole wheat thomas bagels with creamy peanut butter every morning before races...breakfast of champions

and on the peanut butter note...who else was PISSED when sees candy got rid of their peanut butter sucker?! believe me you, i was LIVID

When I first had the kind with honey mixed in, I didn't realize that is what I had bought. I thought something was wrong with my pb; obviously, something deliciously wrong. Anyway I like that stuff too -- anything with honey's great.

And I've heard relatives tout that pb and syrup toast before. I'm willing to try that sometime.

But first, I've got to get some cinnamon. The Elephant...

a coworker got me convinced to try pb and maple syrup... yup it was good. so pb and apple, pb and carrot, or my fav is pb on toast with berry jam and banana :P

totally bummed I cannot get good pb overhere! that and the lack of refried beans, salsa, .... but I do like the bloodorange juice here, that stuff is sweet. and the nuttschoko spead is not tooooo shabby, but it got nothing a goooood jar of natural pb!

During the workweek, I eat PB & J sandwiches no less than 3 times per week for lunch, usually 4, and I would be happy with 5 except I tell myself that I shouldn't eat the same thing for lunch every day.

It must be made with whole wheat bread, preferably crunchy PB, and either grape or strawberrry jelly. I've gone the organic route before, but I don't think it's really necessary...I'm sure I'll live just as long either way and I'm happy to save the $$$.

Sometimes I make two sandwiches, but when I'm lazy I go to a bakery around the corner from my office and buy a ready made one (which is on HUGE slices of bread) so I only need one of those.

Anybody ever try the Big Jack's PB&J at Pot Belly? It rocks. I try to get that at least once a week.

lunch time love wrote:

I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I eat one every day. Today I'm eating raspberry jelly on wheat bread with smucker's natural peanut butter. It's great.

How does your lunch compare to PB&J?

ditto all of the above ! I absolutely crave them, and have them at least 3-4 days a week if I'm at home(retired ! )

I actually just got the organic because it was on sale and was actually less than the regular, though for a significantly smaller amount. It's good, a little crunchier maybe, but one interesting thing is that the organic tesco peanut butter has sugar in it, while the regular tesco peanut butter does not list sugar in the ingredients. In any case, I'm heading back to the states soon and am excited to get stir-up pb again. Someone mentioned that this is a completely different taste. True, but unlike many it's what I was raised on (sort of), and it's what I love.

I eat pb sandwiches most days of the week for lunch. If I tell myself it's bad to do that I just don't listen.

PBJ is damn good with typical grape jelly, but put some expensive natural blueberry on that shit, its f***ing irresistable

I actually work for a company called PBS&J. We call it peanut butter and strawberry jelly. The men in suits don't appreciate the humor.