Powdered Peanut Butter… Is Great??
Three months ago I don’t know if I could have told you two things about gallbladders. Now? Now I know everything about gallbladders. Because mine tried to destroy me. I have rheumatoid arthritis. I have endometriosis. So when I say that gallbladder pain is the worst pain I have experienced in my life, that’s saying something. I was diagnosed with gallbladder disease on November 1, and ordered to follow a STRICT low-fat diet (In addition to everything about the gallbladder, I also learned more about fat content and nutrition labels than I ever wanted). High fat diets can cause biliary colic (which is what civiliarns like you and me call “gallstones” even though gallstones themselves don’t actually cause pain… I told you I knew too much) and no matter how many times I told doctors that I don’t HAVE a high fat diet, they still insisted I needed to cut down on fat. Sidenote: I calculated the fat content of everything I ate regularly, and the highest fat thing was ALMOND MILK. Anyway.
Another high(er) fat item in my diet was peanut butter. I don’t eat a LOT of peanut butter and it wasn’t THAT high in fat, but I was determined to get an A+ on only eating 3 grams of fat per 100 calories, so peanut butter had to go. I also had no appetite and couldn’t find anything I wanted to/could eat, so when I saw a “what I eat in a day with gallstones” TikTok that mentioned powdered peanut butter, I was interested. I bought a little jar for like $8 at Whole Foods and gave it a shot. It’s… so good? I don’t have to follow this draconiain diet anymore and I STILL use PBfit powdered peanut butter!
There are multiple brands of powdered peanut butter, but I went with PBfit solely because I’d seen it at Costco. If Costco did the research and decided it was good, that’s enough for me. Also, I was in no mood to research powdered peanut butter — it’s a good product but it’s beloved by clean eating, calorie counting, toxic fitness lunatics and no one needs that.
Yes, this peanut butter has 1/3 less calories and 87% less fat and 7g of protein, but the thing I like about it is that you can create your own consistency. I’m a natural peanut butter gal, and that stuff can be a drippy MESS. With the PBfit powder, you’re adding water and can create a super thick peanut butter, or a more drippy one — it just depends on how much water you add.
I’m glad I started with a smaller jar from Whole Foods — which actually cost $9.29 for 8oz (!!!) — because it let me try it without having to schlep to Costco, buy a huge jar, dislike it, drag myself and my giant jar of peanut butter powder BACK to Costco and return it. But it’s great! And a 30oz jar at Costco is $13.89! In case you wanted to know the math, that’s $1.16 per oz at Whole Foods, and $0.46 per oz at Costco. (I decant from the giant Costco jar to my smaller 8oz jar, it works perfectly.)
PBfit is perfect for when you want a thick peanut butter, like for spreading on crackers or rice cakes or what have you. I will always have some on hand for jobs my drippy, oily natural peanut butter makes a mess of.
