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1 Peanut Butter vs. Almond Butter
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2 Almond Butter: Healthy Tastes SO Good
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3 Nutty For Nutritional Info on Nut Butters
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4 A Reader Recipe: Homemade Spiced Almond Butter
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5 Avoiding Peanut Butter? Try These Alternatives
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6 You Asked: Banana Smoothie
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8 5 Things: Almond Butter
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9 Toast Toppings Go Head to Head
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10 Snack Attack: Almond Butter and Apples
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11 Pre-Workout Snack: Crunchy Banana Almond Spread
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12 Peanut Butter Is Made From Peanuts, Right?
If you have some speckled bananas on your kitchen counter and you can't stand to make one more loaf of banana bread, try this yummy option. With only two ingredients, nanners and raw almonds, it's a cinch to whip up. Since it's full of carbs and protein, it's the perfect pre-workout snack to munch on. Keep reading for details. Read more
Taking time to enjoy some tea and toast is one of my favorite morning rituals. Some days I just put butter on my toast, and other days I want to mix it up with honey or jam. As evidenced by the plethora of options inside my fridge door, I seem to never have enough toppings! The problem is, when we slather on one of our favorite spreads, we're also adding additional calories, fat, and sugar to our Read more
Check out this recipe for homemade spiced almond butter from reader Sprint2theTable; she posted it in our Healthy Recipe community group. See how to make this almond butter for yourself after the break. Read more
I'm finally getting around to paying my respects to National Panini Month, while also fulfilling a sandwich promise I made to myself not long ago. After being disappointed by The Sentinel's pork and fig sandwich that didn't actually contain figs, I pressed together this panino before fig season bids its sad farewell. When I came up with the "fruit and nut" idea, I thought: this could be Read more
A reader recently wrote in asking, between her two favorites, which was better: peanut butter or almond butter? The question of "better" might boil down to a sipmle question of taste, but like the reader, I enjoy the flavors of both. I decided to do a side-by-side comparison of these popular spreads to see if they differ much nutritionally. If you're curious what you should be putting on your Read more
This whole peanut butter recall has really put a damper on my peanut-butter-loving life. I know not all peanut butter has been recalled, but truthfully, I've used avoiding peanut butter as an excuse to branch out. One positive outcome from this salmonella scare is that I rediscovered my love for crunchy almond butter, and recently tried walnut butter for the first time. So don't fret about Read more
When you're preparing for a day that will bring a strenuous workout or a busy morning with no time for a mid-morning snack, it's especially important to eat a filling breakfast. Oatmeal is great for these occasions, and stirring almond butter into your bowl is a delicious way to add a lot more filling protein, fiber, and flavor. Almond butter is a healthy and tasty alternative to the old Read more
If you're packing peanut butter and jelly in your son's lunch box each day, entice him with another nut. My daughter is a big fan of almond butter — the delicious and nutritious paste that can be substituted for the traditional peanut one on sandwiches, waffles and pancakes. Smeared across apples or halved bananas, it makes for a midday snack that sticks to the stomach and provides protein, Read more
With all this talk about Chinese barbecue and dim-sum Olympics parties, I've had Chinese food on the brain. So on my last trip to the farmers market, I picked up some Chinese broccoli, a yummy in-season green that tastes like a cross between asparagus, broccoli, and bok choy. After making a tofu stir-fry, I refocused the remaining ingredients into an elegant vegetarian sandwich. I used wheat Read more
When I opened my fridge the other day and saw fig preserves and almond butter, I thought, "that's like the Mediterranean equivalent of peanut butter and jelly!" Remembering that I also had a block of feta cheese, I took that glimmer of an idea and came up with something weirder: a Mediterranean-inspired marriage of a PB&J and a grilled cheese. I spread the fig jelly and almond butter on Read more
