Three pounds a week?!? My lord, you must be Stark Raven Mad - hmm, guess you are already aware of that.
In all fairness, a better assessment of my peanut butter consumption would be:
μ = 2
σ2 = 1.5
Where μ = mean number of 16oz jars.
Yes, you have me beat!!
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Three pounds a week?!? My lord, you must be Stark Raven Mad - hmm, guess you are already aware of that.
Doh! :smack:
Now that I’ve done the math, let’s see:
16oz = 1 pound.
μ = 2 = 32oz
On average, you eat more peanut butter than me. On occasion, I have you whipped (even though I eat chunky exclusively!)
I need to retake my statistics course.
I try to like it - all that protein and stuff. But the texture is blech, and I gag as soon as it’s in my mouth.
YES I AM TALKING ABOUT PEANUT BUTTER, SICKOS.
You have to try it on watermelon!
My dad liked it with butter and Karo syrup on pancakes.
I have the curry peanut butter. Tastes pretty good in a sandwich with honey. I have also been curious to try and make some sort of sauce out of it.
When I was little, my dad (who likes to experiment in the kitchen), made me a sundae with chocolate syrup and melted peanut-butter. Absolute HEAVEN.
There ain’t nothing in this world that tastes better on a cold day than a crunchy peanut butter sandwich dunked into a bowl of piping hot chili.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… that is GOOD eatin’ !!!
I love peanut butter but I don’t eat it that much - mainly because I’m too damn lazy to make a sandwich.
I just recently made my famous homemade peanut butter cups for my coworkers and they were a big big hit:
1 large bag of milk chocolate chips (big bag, don’t know the oz though)
1 regular sized jar of PB - I usually use Jiff but this time I used Reese’s. Crunchy is good but smooth is better.
1 cup of sugar
1 bag of crushed Heath bars
1 bunch of either muffin cups (for massive sugar overload) or the more normal candy sized cups (look like muffin cups only smaller)
Melt chocolate in double boiler over low heat. Stir frequently. When melted, use a regular spoon to cover the bottom and inside sides of the cups. Chill in fridge til hard. Put a second layer of chocolate on bottom and sides of cups. Chill again until hard.
While second layer is chilling, empty PB into microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 45 seconds or until soft and (more) pliable. Mix in sugar and candy bits.
After second layer of chocolate is hard, spoon PB mixture into cups. Leave a small bit of space on top - don’t fill to the rim. Then, spoon a nice thick layer of chocoate on top of PB. Smooth to connect top layer with sides. Chill until hard again. Then, peel off the paper cups before serving to anyone. They are a bitch to get off.
They are yummy (so I’ve been told. I hate peanut butter cups).
I have made them without the sugar and it’s still good but a bit too peanut buttery for people who don’t like it much. I’ve also made it without the candy and it’s good but not as good. I actually like them when I use crunchy Jiff and no sugar or candy but most people seem to prefer the Reese’s PB with sugar and candy mix. Even though I don’t like them much, they are much much better than the totally nasty store bought PB cups with the fake PB inside.
Wow. Is there any x such that the thread “Say, does anyone else like/do/eat/watch x, or is it just me?” would not start a huge, spirited SDMB thread?
While I’m here, I enjoy peanut butter, but apparently not nearly as much as some people in this world.
I just discovered that “taste treat” recently, and for those who haven’t tried, you are missing out!
When I lived in Germany, it was hard to get peanut butter…only in some health food stores and it just didn’t have the pizazz as Skippy Super Chunk. Occasionally, I would get a jar sent from the States and would gleefully have sandwiches…my German friends looked at it and said, “it looks, and smells, like something from a baby’s diaper!”
I don’t do as much PB as you because I have to stop myself from doing it. I’ve just posted in another thread that I’m a total addict.
I’m a Jif man.
Sadly, the local market only carries those odd half size jars of Jif. If I want full size, I have to go with a brand I’ve never heard of.
They also carry a variety of funky Russian peanut butters. Some obviously contain chocolate, vanilla, or something else. Most have no helpful pictures on the labels, and no English. As I can by raw hunks of pig fat and cans of squid at this store, I am not eager to try my luck. I did that with interesting-dairy-product-in-a-tube-with-pancakes-on-the label. I’m still not sure just what that was.
I’m a JIF girl…I even brought a jar of Jid and a sleeve of Ritz on my international travels in case I couldn’t find it outside the US.
And I probably eat as much as the OP, lately. On Ritz and graham crackers, on bread, on toasted bread, on celery with cream cheese (try it Lynn), straight from the jar, on English Muffins, mixed with ice cream, melted and used as a dip for bananas…Jif only though–Peter Pan if I am desperate, but never, ever Skippy (ducks).
Peanut Butter has helped me a lot through morning sickness–some days it was the only thing I could eat. All my life though, I have had peanut butter everyday.
We get the double 40oz jars from Costco. They go fast.
That’s a lotta peanut butter, caveat!
Can you tok? Or doeth your tung shtick to the woof of your mouf?
Peanut Butter with Dutch Dark Chocolate?? Oh. My. God.
That cannot enter my house, or it would disappear in two hours, and I’d be in a goober-induced coma for days. Or else I would order a case and put on sixty pounds in a week.
Just remember that when the words Dutch or Dutched appear with the words chocolate or cocoa, it means powdered. For a very long time, chocolate was only a liquid. Then, a Dutch scientist found a way to make cocoa powder. While this was certainly a great achievment (possibly one of the greatest scientific discoveries in the history of the human race), the words Dutch and Dutched are now used as euphemisms for cocoa powder. Either Edie’s or Turkey Hill actually has Dutch chocolate as a flavor. Rather than chocolate syrup, or melting in solid chocolate, it’s made with cocoa powder.
BTW
Jif (which leaving out all natural brands*) does (IMHO of course) taste the most like fresh roasted peanuts, also made a chocolate variety. It was delicious. The jars lasted me about twenty four hours. I am both sad and relieved that it was discontinued.
You do realize that you can make your own peanut butter with Dutch chocolate? Just get some cocoa powder (I’ve tried different brands of hot chocolate and had good results with all of them), melt some peanut butter (it’s much easier to stir it this way) and mix to taste. I’ve found the result to be somewhat gritty, yet delicious. I just realized that I’ve never bothered to try an electric hand mixer. Hmm…
I sometimes make my own peanut butter. It’s easier to control the sugar content. Though, for pure ease, I loves me some Jif. I won’t eat the other kinds, as I’m a PB snob. Jif’s low sugar is really good. Oh, and creamy only for me. A only eats chunky, so we have to have both kinds in the house.
When I was a kid, my mom tried to save money by buying store brand peanut butter and putting in the Jif jar. She made my brother and I some sandwiches and we both thought the peanut butter had gone bad.
My favorite snack as a kid was a giant spoonful of pb dipped in table sugar. My favorite snack now is toast with peanut butter and chocolate chips.
These days, I’m going through about three jars a week of PB. Trader Joe’s 100% natural, crunchy unsalted. PB&J sandwiches, but mostly straight from the jar as late-night snacks.
The natural stuff really isn’t a problem with respect to dieting. IME, it’s the added sugar and oils in the commercial brands that packs on the pounds.