My husband took me on a date the other night which usually lands us in Cold Stone Creamery eating way too much fattening ice cream and leaving us feeling stuffed and sick for the remainder of the evening which pretty much ends our date on a sour note.  So on Saturday night I thought we’d try a new local frozen yogurt place a couple blocks away.  The store was full of sugar-free, carb-free foods from breads and frozen dinners to candies, chips and wine.  It is a self-proclaimed “Atkins Diet Favorite Mini-Market”.

After getting our yogurts we were standing at the cash register when I saw a jar of PB – POWDERED! Now maybe I am just ignorant and ya’ll already knew this stuff existed but there was a huge display and tons of “NEW” signs all over the powdered PB jars.

I of course was completely intrigued and began reading all of the pamphlets about this “natural” PB with half the fat and calories.  The label claimed that they make this PB powder by using just peanuts and pressing them until 85% of the fat calories (i.e. natural oils) come out and they are left with a dry, PB powder.  Fascinating.

How do you eat this stuff you wonder?  Well, you combine the powder with water and stir it up until you get a reduced-calorie PB you can spread on your sandwich!  Sounds just delicious doesn’t it?

Then I read the ingredient list (which I assumed would be ONLY peanuts) and I was shocked to see that after the first ingredient – peanuts – there were two more ingreients – sugar and salt!  And this Atkins-friendly store was selling each jar for $6.95!

Hmmm…so lets get this straight – you can take a spoonful of our great tasting, smooth and creamy or nutty and chunky Krema All-Natural PB (with NO SUGAR AND NO SALT) and spread it onto your bread for your PB and J Sammy, or you can mix a PB powder (that has added sugar and added salt but without the flavorful, healthy oils that come from natural peanuts) with some water and slap that onto your Sammy?

Uh, I think I’ll stick with my tried and true PB of choice – Krema.

Ah, doesn’t it feel good to just say no sometimes?

♥ Kimberly