ode... peanut butter (Page 8)

BTW, my dog and I share a spoon of pb every night after her walk (don't get grossed out, I lick first!) It's a wierd bonding ritual we have....Cindy

Cindy,
I'm using my sisters computer. The PB Smotthie recipe is 1 cup milk, 5 ice cubes, 2Tbs PB (crunchy or smooth). Blend in a blender. Add one frozen banana. (make sure to peel the banana before freezing.) Blend. Enjoy!
Kim

Kim, that sounds yummy. I've got a basket full of really ripe bananas right now and loathed the thought of making banana bread....so peel and freeze they'll go. Do you add protein powder too???

Hey Ron, is this thread setting a record for longest running on the site!!!

Just opened at new jar.....mmmm.....


Darlene

oh yuuuuummmm...I'm putting some bananas in the freezer now! Hey, have you ever tried putting protein powder in it? Altho that would be a really high calorie snack for me...

I don't put protien powder in it. My nutriionist told me to have a 500 cal breakfast and this is 400. So this is my morning breakfast. I just got back from vaction and all I had to eat pretty much was PB and banana sandwiches. I gained lds while I was gone. OOPs!
Kim

When I was a kid, my mom fed us every kind of sandwich imaginable but never peanut butter (and jelly). I discovered later that I was really missing out. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich has the best ratio of carbs to protein needed for that after workout snack. It doesn't need refrigeration and can be stashed anywhere. It's a whole lot less expensive than a power bar. My athlete adult kids and I scarf them down all the time! enjoy!! Besides, if you're working out, the calories won't show,right??!!

Is that really true about the protein to carbs ratio in pb&j or pb and banana? B/c if so, you have made my entire week!

BTW, I tried cutting the recipe in half and adding half a scoop of vanilla protein powder, believe it or not it was pretty good! The powder thickens and smooths it some, and the vanilla taste was a nice compliment (with a charming bouquet and velvet feel on the tongue too haha). I used natural pb, I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

Cutting the recipe in half that's about 265 cals, I haven't done the protein and carb breakdown. Not really enough for breakfast but a nice snack....high on the protein, but if you're like me you have to concentrate on getting it in.

Cindy

I used to make peanut butter and banana burritos using the whole wheat wraps. Yum-yummy-yum! I don't know why I stopped. Maybe I just got onto a different PB kick.

The whole wheat wraps are super high in fiber, so combined with the banana and the PB, it made a great breakfast. Mmmmmmm.... I just opened a new jar of Maranatha Smooth (that's all they have at Costco). I need some bananas!

Has anyone ever tried these? I got the receipe off the quaker oats web site....they are to die for....(let's not talk about the calories)

ingredients
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups QUAKER Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
2 cups (any combination of) raisins, diced dried mixed fruit, miniature marshmallows, flaked coconut, chopped peanuts or semisweet chocolate pieces


preparation
1. Mix together first four ingredients. Stir in oats and remaining ingredients
2. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Store in tightly covered container.

Servings: 4 dozen

Keriann

Keriann, those sound evil...I gotta go to the grocery store...Cindy

Cindy --

They're deadly.....I'm sorry I mentioned them...now I have to go to the store too!

Keriann

Edited by keriann 2004-07-17 10:52 AM

They served those at the race I was at yesterday, YA, they were YUMMY. On my long drive home after the race, I stopped at DairyQueen and ordered a Reese Peanut Butter cup Blizzard, it was good, but needed more PB!!
Yay Peanut Butter!!!


Darlene

What Darlene no race report? I'm sure you've posted how it went elsewhere in the forum, I'll look but you must've finished so Yay for YOU!!! (and of course pb)...Cindy

I did my whole race yesterday on nothing but PB and J. I felt sick after the race.
Kim

for a snack last night I slathered PB between two whole wheat fig bars. Oh MAMMA'.....

Need some PB. My kids eat it for lunch and dinner. I want some PB.

Ohhh Yummmm That sounds really good.

I tried one of those on my way home from my Tri last weekend. It was good, but needed more pb...and it was munched up too much, it needed to be chunkier. Next time, I will tell them to blend it about half as much. Verrryy Goooood though!!!


Darlene

Chocolate TCBY fro-yo with PB topping....yummmmmmmmm

In some ways I felt above this thread....

"I don't have a peanut butter addiction," I'd say to myself.

"These people are crazy!" I'd self-righteously proclaim.

My son was at summer camp last week.....a free week for a single mom to wine and dine with her girlfriends, eat big girl food, not have to worry about cutting everything into 7-year-old type bites.....

What did I finish off?

2 jars of peanut butter (chunky and creamy) and a loaf of bread.....

the steaks stayed in the freezer,
the romaine grew brown spots in the fridge
the italian tomatoes stayed on the vine.

Thank God I have a tri in two weeks and my training levels went up. I have some PB to work off this week...

"My name is Nancy and I have a problem with Peanut butter...."

Edited by crpadiem 2004-07-27 9:15 PM

It's not a problem, my love, it is a lifestyle.  The sooner you come to grips with it, the better off you will be.  I have walked down this dark road.  Don't do what I have done:  the empty peanut butter jars under the bed, cracker crumbs in the sheets, peanut butter cup foil in my suit pockets, massive amounts of colonge to hide the musky pb aroma, shades drawn tight with a spoon and twitch, shaking with taboo delight...  The irrisistable urge to by two jars instead of one... it goes on an on,  a perpetual diet of denial and binge.  LET IT GO!!!!  The harder you hide it, the more they will talk.

Come into the light, Nancy!  Proclaim your love of all things peanutbutter and throw off this yoke of oppression you wear about your neck.  Set down that heavy bag of bricks and feel your peanut butter soul lift you to a higher plain....  

"Hi, my name is Cindy..."

I peanut butter, therefore I tri.

'Nuff said....would someone please pass the nutter butters...?

We are so close to 200 posts. We must keep it going for all of us adicts.
Kim