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Skippy or Jif? (Thanks Bessfour!)

JIF only! And extra chunky, please!

sessjess at 7:12PM on 07/15/08

From Talk

Cold Cereal Confessions

I'm very particular about my cereal regimen. Generally I mix two, usually three, different kinds of health-nut cereal (some form of Kashi is always involved), add toasted pecans and/ or walnuts, and drizzle with honey before soaking in whole milk. (I used to do sweetened soymilk, but then I started reading that it's really, really bad for you... So I stopped.)

Sometimes if I'm feeling frisky I'll put a little dollop of cottage cheese on top as a sort of protein-rich garnish to swirl around with my GoLean. Mmm... I'm getting hungry...

sessjess at 4:49PM on 06/01/08

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Bourdain Rants About the Food Network

Is it just me, or did Bourdain seem to be seriously wasted?

sessjess at 5:53PM on 03/24/08

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Red Velvet Cake Revisited

This is so informative-- I love it! Thank you for writing this!

sessjess at 12:17AM on 02/19/08

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet: Week 6, Are Flavor Intensifiers One of the Keys to Losing Weight?

I agree with the pickles and pico de gallo to a degree, but I always find myself retaining some serious fluids if I stock up on the super-salty stuff... For flavor with out fat I love hot sauce, fresh black pepper, and cumin on almost anything.

sessjess at 9:06PM on 02/14/08

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway

Dark!

sessjess at 6:03PM on 02/12/08

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway

None of the above! Semi-sweet, please.

sessjess at 6:35PM on 02/10/08

Responses to Comments by sessjess

From Talk

Skippy or Jif? (Thanks Bessfour!)

I buy the organic natural stuff from the local co-op, then mix in a little peanut oil and honey. I like mine about as sweet and spreadable as the commercial stuff, but without a lot of the additives and refined sugar. Plus, the peanut taste is a lot more pronounced.

jenilowrance at 5:23PM on 07/16/08

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Skippy or Jif? (Thanks Bessfour!)

@wookie - if Annette had hawked Peter Pan while she was in the MMC, I would have begged Mom to buy it! I did the natural pb when my girls were young, but it was really hard to stir and I kept it in the fridge for fear of the oil going rancid, which made it even harder to stir. Once my arthritis got really bad, I went back to my early favorite, Jif. I like the slight taste of honey with the peanuts. Crunchy is especially delicious on crisp apples.

This thread is on pb, but I also love other nut butters.

PerkyMac at 3:25AM on 07/16/08

From Talk

Skippy or Jif? (Thanks Bessfour!)

choosy moms choose jif

derekhinton2003 at 11:12PM on 07/15/08

From Talk

Skippy or Jif? (Thanks Bessfour!)

Parents always bought Jif but we sooooo wanted the Skippy because of the commercials (remember Annette from the Mickey Mouse Club? Well when she was all grown up she started hawking Skippy).

My husband was a Peter Pan man, then we switched to all natural pb, then inexplicably this year we switched back to Peter Pan.

wookie at 10:27PM on 07/15/08

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Skippy or Jif? (Thanks Bessfour!)

i use skippy to make an awesome salted peanut butter ice cream-recipe stolen from the french laundry & specifically used skippy.

dmarina at 9:44PM on 07/15/08

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Skippy or Jif? (Thanks Bessfour!)

Sunbutter. Allergic to peanuts.

feriorrenna at 8:19PM on 07/15/08

From Talk

Cold Cereal Confessions

I still love PB Cap'n Crunch. When I was pregnant it was corn flakes with bananas and whole milk. I love the original giant shredded wheat biscuits, too, with cinnamon and sugar. I leave them whole and cut bites off with my spoon so that the top stays crisp.

Blood sugar issues, be damned!

Calichef at 5:24PM on 06/07/08

From Talk

Cold Cereal Confessions

It's ALL about the Golden Grahams. I could eat them every single day. I think I may have to purchase a box this weekend, in fact-- I love eating cereal for dessert!

men7d at 1:57PM on 06/05/08

From Talk

Cold Cereal Confessions

Life. I like it, Mikey likes it, what isn't to love?

As a side note, not matter how exciting they try to make Kix, it is just terrible. It may be kid tested, but no kid would approve.

feep at 1:52PM on 06/03/08

From Talk

Cold Cereal Confessions

Kashi Heart to Heart is my favorite, and I like their Heart to Heart blueberry oat clustery cereal too. Also Puffins -- love the peanut butter, and have been known to mix the PB and cocoa varieties... yum...

Loved sugar cereals as a kid -- mom never let us have them, but I chowed down many bowls of Capn Crunch (crunchberries please, or crunchberries mixed with PB capn crunch), cocoa krispies and all the cereals in the fruity pebbles-boo berry-count chocula family at friends' houses. Haven't had them in decades but I suspect I wouldn't like them anymore, too sweet.

One thing I cannot stand is raisin bran. Love raisins in anything else, don't mind the bran flakes, but together and with milk it's -- my new favorite word, thanks PerkyMac! -- hurlicious.

CookiePie at 1:44PM on 06/03/08