I haven't heard of this before. Grainlady, where DO you find the time to make all these wonderful foods??

I just ordered an assortment from this company with smooth, crunchy, white chocolate and dark chocolate, they sell the assortment on Amazon. Grainlady, you are so talented!

http://ilovepeanutbutter.com

Not for me. I am not a fan of putting candy or sweet flavors into basic things like peanut butter and baked goods like bagels, English muffins etc. If I want Peanut Butter and chocolate I'll just have a peanut butter cup or add my own chocolate. What really makes me laugh is when I see people buy all these fancy sugar laden things at places like Whole Foods but turn their nose up at Jif or Skippy because , Horrors, the sugar!! Guess I'm a flavor purist. Don't like flavored chips either with the exception of salt or pepper. Someone served Guiness flavored potato chips at a recent party. Interesting but just weird to me. Rather have the drink and plain chips.

Not for me either. The best peanut butter for my taste is made from peanuts and salt, period. As per what's sold at Trader Joes and other places. Nothing else is needed, certainly nothing sweet and, heavens to Betsy, not more oil.

I have 24-hours in the day, like everyone else. I just don't sleep very many of them.

It's web sites like lucillle linked to I have to thank for my busy "make-work programs". I have a LOT of powdered peanut butter in our home food storage and now you've armed me with more recipes to try. ;-)

If you think boutique peanut butter is interesting, I have a friend who has a lavender farm and he has the most wonderful lavender-flavored honey from his bees. Then I got hooked on Minnestalgia wild rice products and their Whipped Hazelnut Honey, Whipped Blueberry Honey, and Whipped Cinnamon Honey.

Watchmelol,

I'm puzzled. You find it OK to have a peanut butter cup but if the same assembly of flavors is inside a jar, you wouldn't want it?

The 4 jar set I ordered includes 2 that are not flavored, (smooth and crunchy) for times I don't want added sweet. But I love peanut butter cups.

Yes. I consider peanut butter on toast or spread on an apple a quick snack for protein and energy or even part of my morning meal. A peanut butter cup is just an empty calorie snack to be enjoyed but not counted as food. I believe in calories and eating a variety of foods, not all the other nonsense that is out there about diet that makes the rounds every decade or so as a new fad. Even a peanut butter and jam sandwich makes more sense since at least there is a bit of fruit in jam. Since calories count to me I don't want to clutter up my other foods with empty ones. Would rather save the empty calorie stuff for my treats not hide them in my meals and healthier snacks. I don't waste calories on juice often either. I eat the whole fruit. I don't eat healthy all the time but I do know what I am eating and what it counts towards.

When I am trying to lose weight I keep myself honest by tracking proteins, fruits, fats etc. along with calorie counts. It's to make sure I am eating a good variety of foods.
So a small apple with a tablespoon of peanut butter would be 1 fruit, 1 protein and 1 fat. Putting chocolate chips in that tablespoon would mess with the nutritional content in ratio to volume.

Ok, I am officially interested in the powdered peanut butter! What a great addition to certain recipes! I'm disappointed that a serving has so few calories because I am always looking for foods that increase the caloric intake without the sugar, flour, etc.

Lucille, I'm going to order a jar of The Heat Is On peanut butter and a jar of the powdered product.

Grainlady, adding more healthful fats is one obvious way to increase calories in a good way. I'd love your coconut oil + peanut butter recipe; it sounds delicious.

Lavendar honey? Divine.

Grainlady - Am interested in your friend who grows lavender. Does he also sell lavender? If so, is there a contact for his products? Thank you.

Peanut butter powder (aka peanut flour) is available in stores now, when I first started using it 15-years ago, I had to purchase it in #10 cans. One of the first brands was PB2, Jif now has regular and chocolate peanut butter powder. I have Honeyville Organic Peanut Butter Powder on hand just now, and some in #10 cans I stocked up on when the price of peanut butter rose a couple years ago, and have used a couple other brands over the years. When I reconstitute peanut butter powder and water to use as a spread, I usually add a little coconut oil to improve the mouth feel. There are a whole range of recipes using peanut butter powder when you do a search on the subject.

Simple recipe.... Mix equal amounts of (natural) peanut butter and softened coconut oil. I add about 1 t. palm nectar to 1 c. peanut butter and 1 c. softened coconut. I mix it by hand, but a hand-held electric mixer would also work. It kept very well in our cold kitchen this winter, but as the temperature goes up I've needed to refrigerate it, so when this portion is gone, I won't make any more until it's cold again.

@pink - My friend sells lavender/products locally at different stores and the farmer's market. It's his post-retirement fun.

My peanut butters arrived- so of course I had to open all 4 and have a taste of each. I got smooth no stir natural (good), crunchy (very crunchy) white chocolate wonderful (and it is) and dark chocolate dreams which has to be a sin because it is SO good. Wanted to limit myself to a small taste of each because I haven't had dinner yet but could not stop myself from getting a big spoonful of the yummy chocolate.

The popularity of Nutella no doubt is driving this new wave of designer pbutter. To each his own!! Just don't fool yourself into thinking any of it is "healthy"!!

Jif used to sell an apple cinnamon flavored peanut butter. I usually am more of the "purist" but I tasted this at my cousin's cabin and it was great. And of course, they quit selling it shortly thereafter. But the chocolate version continued. Which was not what I wanted.