This week, I just started spreading some peanut butter on my banana or apple to get a good ratio of protein, fats and carbs. Really tasty snack for before working out. My question is which brand or type is best to use? I am currently using jiffy because that is what is in the house. I know it is not the best choice. I also don't want to use a PB2 spread nor do I want to eat a low carb version of peanut butter (nasty!). I am pretty open to suggestions, but do want it to taste good and easy to spread. Also, I am maintaining and am pretty active daily with my workouts. Any suggestions?

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Peanut Butter is not the best option because it is higher in fat and sugar, but you might consider jiffy natural and Adams natural if you do go with peanut butter. Not a real nut as I have been told (news to me). However, I think nut butters are way better because of low ft, low sugar and high Protein. Yummy tasting also.

I ground up my own almond nut butter from Safeway last night. It was fun!

There were 3-4 different options to grind from: no salt, lightly salted and normal salted. Noticed that they have you grinding up just the Blanched part of the almond. That makes for a much light nut butter than, say, Justin's almond nut butter.

Is anything nutritional being lost in the self-grind almond Blanched nut butter that might exist in the Justin's nut butter?

I like the taste of the almond nut butter I made last night more then Justin's, even with no salt or sweetener added. It is yummy spread on a banana. Please let me know your thoughts.

Teddie Peanut Butter is my favorite, by far, however, I have to be wary of having it in the house, if you know what I'm saying. I like the Jif Naturals to-go because it's forced portion control.

I'm down to my doctor's advised maintenance weight (almost 10 lbs. below my goal) and I have to bump up my net calories now from 900 to 1,200. Planning to add in some peanut butter to do that.