Guest guest Posted July 12, 2003 Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 At 8:39 PM -0400 7/12/03, wrote: >Is there one peanut butter that is better then >another? Many of the popular brands are laden with sugar and salt. Check labels. >Is peanut butter good for us or not? Yes, indeed. Protein and beneficial fat. >I have started using the natural and pouring off the >fat. Makes a lot of sense, as you do not need all the oils. >Is there a better way or should I not be eating >this for breakfast every morning? You seem to be doing all the right things. --Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Salt and a little bit of walnut, almond or other oil. Even peanut oil. Not sure on digestion. They used to warn off peanut butter and pork rinds (can't eat them anyway) so I have always gone with pecan butter or walnut butter if I could get them locally. I'm not sure what the deal is with peanut butter--hard to digest or people eat too much of it. Salt, toasting and maybe spices if you can handle that or like that and oil helps with flavor. Debbie houston cd After starting in a little bits of organic peanut butter for 3 days I read somewhere that on the spectrum of nut butters, peanut was the hardest to digest. Do you find that to be true? I tried to make pecan butter but it's not really tasty. I couldn't get it really smooth. I just used a bit of water with the nuts in my food chopper. Any suggestions to make it better? Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 ,I would use a little oil or ghee/clarified butter instead of water. A food chopper won't always do a good job with the nuts. It chops well, but won't go fine enough to make it 'butter'. I have one attachment to my hand blender that works well, but another slightly larger chopper attachment to another hand blender doesn't work well at all. If you have a hand blender, maybe you can use your chopper to get it almost there and then switch to the hand blender with the paste in a bowl to finish it off?Amelia To: BTVC-SCD Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 11:00:18 AMSubject: peanut butter After starting in a little bits of organic peanut butter for 3 days I read somewhere that on the spectrum of nut butters, peanut was the hardest to digest. Do you find that to be true? I tried to make pecan butter but it's not really tasty. I couldn't get it really smooth. I just used a bit of water with the nuts in my food chopper. Any suggestions to make it better?Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Peanuts are a legume, not a nut. Legumes are harder to digest and so are considered advanced. For nut butter roast the nuts 1st on a low temperature (stovetop or oven) for about 10 minutes so the nuts will release their oil. Let cool a bit then grind them with a little salt. I use a combo of pecans & walnuts (about1/4 walnut, ¾ pecan) and find that they will eventually grind down into a paste in a mini Cuisinart. I have to stop & push the ground nuts around a few times to achieve a nut butter consistency. I have not tried the addition of walnut oil though that is a good suggestion. Carol CD 22 yrs SCD 5 yrs From: BTVC-SCD [mailto:BTVC-SCD ] On Behalf Of Earthymom88 After starting in a little bits of organic peanut butter for 3 days I read somewhere that on the spectrum of nut butters, peanut was the hardest to digest. Do you find that to be true? I tried to make pecan butter but it's not really tasty. I couldn't get it really smooth. I just used a bit of water with the nuts in my food chopper. Any suggestions to make it better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 After starting in a little bits of organic peanut butter for 3 days I read somewhere that on the spectrum of nut butters, peanut was the hardest to digest. Do you find that to be true? I tried to make pecan butter but it's not really tasty. I couldn't get it really smooth. I just used a bit of water with the nuts in my food chopper. Any suggestions to make it better?For most people, peanut butter is definitely hardest to digest, since the peanut isn't even a nut (it's a legume). I hated giving up peanut butter, but now all I eat is pecan butter and I really enjoy it. You just have to get used to the different taste, which you will, given time. I hated all nut butters other than peanut at first.To make my pecan butter, I just grind up raw pecans in my food processor. It takes a long time, and a lot of scraping down of the sides, but it eventually gets fairly creamy and smooth without anything being added to it. I usually add some salt for flavor though. Peace =)Alyssa **16** yo (!)UC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per dayPrednisone 40 mg 1x per day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 Darlene, I have an Omega juicer and just love it! I made some nut butters with it in the beginning of SCD to try and it was so easy and it did really well. For the pecans i just put them in raw (make sure the nut butter attachment is on) and it comes out so smooth. To me it didn't need oil but you can add some if you want it creamier. I tried almonds two ways - 1) blanching and 2)putting them in raw with the peel and both ways were good - the blanched and peeled would be easier for the gut. I had made walnut butter too and it was yummy also - i put them in raw. Enjoy! I hope to try the pecan butter again soon! > > I have an Omega juicer which makes nut butter. I've never tried this before and want to make pecan butter. Do I just throw in the pecans raw or bake them first? Will I need to put them in the blender as does and add oil? >  Darlene > Intestinal Dysbiosis > SCD 3 weeks > > > > > ________________________________ > > To: BTVC-SCD > Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 7:26:08 PM > Subject: Re: peanut butter > >  > I don't make peanut butter at all because it doesn't agree with me > (darn! it sure tastes good!). But here's how I make relatively > smooth nut butters from pecan meal or almond flour. This isn't smooth > smooth like bought but it's a lot smoother than crunchy nut butter if > that makes sense. First I use my Miracle Mincer which looks like > it's similar to the Mini Cuisinart. This gets it to a paste. It > doesn't hold a lot, maybe 3/4 cup, so I scrape most of that out and > make a second batch. Then transfer to the big blender jar (so I have > the hole in the top.) I add some oil, hard to say how much, until it > will process, really. In a few minutes it's really pretty deent. If > my 45 year old blender (Go, Oster!) gives up the ghost one day I will > probably look at an Omega or VitaMix or something really heavy which > I understand can make really smooth nut butters by virtue of being > able to run a long time without burning the motor out. > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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