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Speaking of peanut butter.

15 years ago

We don't eat allot of it but I do like it on toast with some honey over the weekends and hubby likes a breakfast sandwich of peanut butter and bologna. Thought I'd get a jump on the price increase just around the corner, went shopping on Friday night and to my dismay the Skippy I usually purchase at $1.99 was now $3.59. I was appalled. I'm not a mom but how on earth are they supposed to be able to afford this stuff. And yes, all the very large jars were gone.

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Kathsgrdn
15 years ago
Yep, it's getting ridiculous. Last jar I bought was Save A Lot brand. I can't tell the difference between it and Skippy. I don't like most other brands because they're too sweet. I happen to be eating some peanut butter and crackers right now....
alisande
15 years ago
Someone posted at the KT recently that peanut butter was going to rise in price soon. I like natural peanut butter (peanuts and salt the only ingredients), and stocked up on Smucker's last week--on sale for $2.50.
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A few quick thoughts. As I said in the last pb post--even at double the price, PB is STILL going to be just about the cheapest (per serving) protein food you can feed your family. If you buy it ahead, put the extra in the freezer to keep it from going rancid. Pasta? Make your own--it costs a FRACTION of what 'store-bought' pasta does, you can flavor it to suit how you're using it (with herbs, cheese, spices, etc) and only takes minutes to make. Even if the price of flour goes up, it's still going to be cheaper to make than to buy. Also, pasta stores well in the freezer. Re-evaluate your baking practices. Some mixes are actually cheaper to use than baking from scratch, some cost more. Generally speaking, I don't think you save buy buying pancake or biscuit mixes, but many cake mixes (expecially brownies and angelfood cake) are cheaper than using your own ingredients.
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Trader Joe's has an excellent selection, I've tried most of them and like them all. The kind I seem to prefer (chunky and salted), as with I believe the others too, is made from two ingredients, peanuts and salt. No sugar, no other additives. Peanut butter is a simple product, the extraneous things that many of the national brands put into it really aren't needed.
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agmss15 - what you wrote ties in with what I just found on this site: https://www.leaf.tv/articles/can-you-substitute-peanut-butter-for-butter-in-baking/ "Substituting Peanut Butter for Butter Unlike other fats and oils, butter, depending on the style and salt content, is at least 80 percent fat, with milk solids and water making up the remaining 20 percent; on the other hand, peanut butter is only 50 percent fat. It contains 25 percent protein, fiber and other carbohydrates in addition to fat. To effectively substitute peanut butter for butter in a recipe, first combine equal parts creamy peanut butter and oil; use the mixture cup for cup as you would use butter in cakes, muffins, cookies, brownies or quick breads." Thanks! I'll go ahead and do it, but I think I'll use canola rather than coconut oil.
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Chi
15 years ago
I bought some the other day and it was almost $6 for a 15 oz jar. This is southern Cali so it's a little inflated anyway but I was still shocked. Good thing I don't eat much of it!
kayjones
15 years ago
If you have a food processor, you can easily make your own pure peanut butter and it's GOOD!
azzalea
15 years ago
Be very careful making your own--you need a really good, heavy duty appliance, or you'll burn the motor up (ask me how I know--LOL!).
sue_va
15 years ago
A couple weeks ago I bought a jar of JIF, my favorite brand. I didn't notice anything different on the label; the price was $2.85.

My neighbor had given me a dish of Peanut Butter Parfait, which was really good and I got the recipe from her.

Saturday I made the Parfait. At first bite I knew something was wrong. I got the jar and looked at the label. In small print it did say lower sodium, 35% less sugar*.

I know some of you will think that is a good thing, but I don't. I do like my sweets and at my age I'm not concerned about all that. And I'm not fat or obese. {{gwi:1472708}}

The Parfait was good, but not as good as if I had had the other peanut butter.

*That may not be exactly what it said; I've already given the whole jar, minus 3 Tbls away. I'll be getting another of the old kind next time I'm shopping.

Sue
lisa_fla
15 years ago
Publix still has Skippy on sale for $1.99. I have a big jar of Jif, but bought the Skippy since PB is going up.
lazypup
15 years ago
There was a story on the news tonight about peanut butter. They said the due to the severe droughts in some areas and flooding in other areas about 75% of the peanut crop was lost. They said that on the wholesale peanuts were selling or $350/ton last year, but this year they are up to $1400/ton. Is it any wonder the price of peanut butter has gone up? Its great news for the farmers who saved their crop, but sadly its gonna be lean year for the ones who lost their crops.

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