What's Your Fave Peanut Butter Brand?

Hi Diana~

Are you serious..... we JUST did a taste test TEN MINUTES AGO with JIF and SKIPPY. I put JIF on one side of my husband's bagel and then ran out. So I got out a jar in the pantry that's Skippy for the other side of the bagel. He didn't know which was which peanut butter only I did.

WELL.... he voted for JIF. I have to agree with him! It's such a coincidence that you asked this just after I did the "test" and then sat down to read Mampedia tonight.

So... we only did the "test" with 2 brands. When my kids were little they helped me make homemade peanut butter and that's easy to do!

I only buy Jiff and my kids love it. I have this weird quirk that I must have the first bite of a newly opened peanut butter jar. My kids and husband all think I'm nuts. :)

I haven't had peanut butter in three years because my son is severely allergic. But Jif is the best .Have a PB& J for me :)

Trader Joe's Peanut Butter! They have both creamy and crunchy, as well as organic or just regular. The only ingredient: peanuts. Check the labels on many of the other brands - most of them also contain sugar.

Most of the time, we go to Whole Foods and get the freshly ground honey roast peanut butter...mmm...if for some reason they are out of those nuts (boo!) we do the regular one, or I get the natural store brand (or any natural one where the only ingredient is peanuts and perhaps salt). HTH.

Trader Joes PB is the undisputed fave in our home!

I have always preferred Jif. But when my kids were much smaller Skippy sold TUBES of peanut butter and I LOVED those (and so did they.. I know I know.. bad mommy, right? lol). So my daughter decided she only liked Skippy. That's fine, it is pretty good (not great but it works ya know?). My kids still say they prefer it. My husband, however, prefers Smart Balance.
About 10 years ago, before it went out of business, we loved a small privately owned company called Sorrell's Pickard peanut butter. It was heavenly.

Oh.. and I stocked up on some tonight at the store (both brands). Because I saw the article about peanut prices, too. Sounds like they expect them to almost double. Not a shock really... it seems like everything is like that these days. But I actually live in the peanut state (GA) and our weather was not normal rainfall during the growing season this year at all.

Jif. That's it. It's so creamy and the taste is so good.

Jif all natural has palm oil, but not partially hydrogenated. I just checked the label. The ingredients are pretty much the same as the regular Jif, so I'm not sure what makes it all natural, but it is the same price, so I figure why not. There are more all-natural versions out there, but my husband (and now daughter) like the creamy and slightly sweet, rather than just peanuts and salt.

They now have all natural peanut butters that don't separate (although I don't know how). I personally also like the TJs. But we went to my parents recently and after a visit I asked my daughter how she liked their TJs, and she suggested that we bring some of ours to their house, so they would "normal" peanut butter.

i adore jif, and was so sad to read the label just recently and find that it contains FULLY hydrogenated vegetable oils. that crud gets into the human body and pretty much never leaves. i cheat on *healthy* for certain things that i love, but i just can't put that into my poor old system any more and sure can't do it to my family. but i'd rather not eat peanut butter (sniffle) than eat that nasty stuff that has to be refrigerated. i'm currently checking out natural organic brands, but may be forced into buying my own peanuts and using the blend-tec to make my own.
khairete
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Parkers. It has two ingredients - peanuts, salt.

http://www.parkersfarm.com/products.html#anpb

Jif is the only one I can buy. If I buy any other brand, no one in my house will eat it!

Planter's FINALLY started making peanut butter...it's good.

There is an All natural crunchy peanut butter that my neighbor picks up from St. Johns Bay, Canada for us...it's REALLY good!!!

I like JIF and Skippy...but I love peanut butter...i really do like the Planters Peanut butter

Two of my daughters love peanut butter, and thanks to one of them being my middle daughter (who has Autism and Sensory Integration Disorder ie texture issues on top of lactose intolerance) we have to be careful about what kind she eats, but she's also very picky about flavor and texture. We found a winner all around with Peanut Butter & Company brand. They have tons of different flavors and they're ALL VEGAN which means she can even have chocolate flavored peanut butter and not worry that it's going to have milk in it. She also loves maple flavor and white chocolate. They've tried honey flavor and enjoyed it.

They're all natural without any hydrogenated gunk and I can get them at a reasonable cost at my Walmart. They're found online too but at twice the cost. The web site has more variety of flavor, esp if you like to use peanut butter in savory cooking (think Thai).

Jif is the best!! However, I've moved to the all natural simply jif, trader joes, Better N' Peanut Butter, and almond butters...They're a bit healthier. No trans fat or hydrogenated oils. :)

Jif CREAMY

Also, how do you make symbols in your nickname?

The whatever is on sale brand :)

We love peanut butter, but I get whatever is on sale in a big tub of it.
That way, we have plenty for peanut butter cookies as well as bagels, toast or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We also like peanut butter on celery and apples.
The last great deal I got was Safeway brand. It's good and creamy.
As I said, we like it for the cookies.

Jif creamy. Love it. I never really liked Skippy.

JIF Creamy, All-Natural - I've seen it pretty much everywhere

Store brand or whatever's on sale. Creamy for sandwiches and Extra Crunchy for cooking/baking

We have had the same exact problem!!!I am thinking of using the bulk section in my Nob Hill Grocery store to make small batches of my own peanut butter. I bought a "natural brand" before I realized in had palm oil.

Jif is first pick, Skippy is second. I hate store brand, it never tastes right to me.

Have to agree with jif!

Parkers Organic creamy

We used to get the Smucker's All Natural PB - it has peanuts and salt as the only ingredients. Peanuts make their own oil naturally so it seems stupid to take out the peanut oil and then replace it with something else. We do have to stir it up when you first open it and then refrigerate it afterwards. It's available just about anywhere.

We just found that Target's brand - Market Pantry - has started selling an all natural PB that's the same - just 2 ingredients. We're trying that now, and it seems to taste the same as the Smuckers.

JIF, low fat, creamy, the natural version..... so he would not approve! But I'm a "choosy mom". (Skippy/Peter Pan... yuck).

There is an organic brand I really like that is healthy, I get at HEB, but I can't remember the name of it, and I can rarely find it. I once got the wrong brand and it was sooo nasty... Go to Central Market, Whole Foods, Kroger... they usually have a lot of natural and healthier versions.

Remember, on the natural ones, they look gross after a bit because the oils separates from the spread. You just have to stick your knife in it and stir it up before using.

Kroger works for us, sold at Ralph's, Kroger's and Food 4 Less.

Trader Joe's! Ingredients: peanuts.

Skippy reduced fat creamy.. buy it in the large double containers at BJ's for $7

Any organic, the best espe ially for baking.

I love Skippy Natural. The ingredients are roasted peanuts, sugar, palm oil, and salt. You can get in at most grocery stores.

I always buy Jif. But my dad, who is picky about peanut butter, prefers Peter Pan. He'll eat Jif, too, but whenever he does, he says "Choosey mother's choose Jif, but kids like Peter Pan!" LOL I guess he's a kid! :D

I personally like my pb as far from natural as possible, and when they stopped selling my particular guilty pleasure at the local store, I found I could get it from Amazon at 2/3 the price - subscribe & save + free shipping.

We love Peter Pan at our house!

I grew up on Peter Pan, but I have found that I like JIF much better!!!

SKIPPY!!! (I like super chunk, the kids like creamy)

I buy Skippy Natural and everyone on my house loves it. I have to buy the biggest container that Target sells (no normal grocery store in my area sells it). I'm going to stock up this weekend before the prices go up.

I'm not that picky - I just go with the store brand and that's good enough for me. Otherwise I grew up with Jif and my stepsons were always given Skippy. They do make more natural versions of Jif and Skippy if you check the ingredient label.

JIF, JIF, JIF all the way!
The peanut crop is very compromised this year and predicted that prices will double. UUGGGHH!

Definitely the Natual Jif. Sooooo good!