Re: Tiny and amazing little snack/treat.

[Guest guest]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr that was not nice at all!!!! ;-)

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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:51 AM

Subject: Tiny and amazing little

snack/treat.

[Avert your eyes if you are succeptible to salty & rich food

porn...]

I just had a chocolate & PB craving, so I made like the old

Reese's

commercials and " got some chocolate in my peanut butter! " .

Take 1 tsp of " Better than Peanut Butter " (which is fortified

with flax

seeds and is slightly crunchy, or just use regular PB) in a

spoon, then

top it with 2 or 3 chocolate chips that you have chopped into a

few

pieces each.

Eat in one big mouthful, chewing the chocolate chunks or letting

them

melt slowly, or take little bites of it until the spoonful is

gone.

Calories: about 35, and approximately 2 grams each of

carb/fat/protein.

OK, sorry about that, but after the holidays my sugar tolerance

and " expectation " is way up, and I'll be craving little treats

like

this for another few weeks. Plus I've got a cold to " feed " .

:-)

http://tenacity.net

[Guest guest]

Sometimes, when I'm having a terrible craving, instead

of caving in, and eating an entire box of cookies or

chips, I have just a tablespoon of peanut butter.

Plus, after I do that, my cravings are GONE, whereas

if I ate the chips/cookies, I'd have eaten a ton of

unnecessary calories, felt very sick, and STILL wanted

more... something magical about peanut butter...

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--- kaitainen <no_reply > wrote:

I just had a chocolate & PB craving, so I made like

the old Reese's

commercials and " got some chocolate in my peanut butter! " .....

[Guest guest]

Oh man, I drooled just reading that! Thanks for the snack idea. You could also

use sugar free chocolate syrup drizzled over PB, but I like the idea of real

chocolate better, lol.

Christie

kaitainen <no_reply > wrote:

[Avert your eyes if you are succeptible to salty & rich food porn...]

I just had a chocolate & PB craving, so I made like the old Reese's

commercials and " got some chocolate in my peanut butter! " .

Take 1 tsp of " Better than Peanut Butter " (which is fortified with flax

seeds and is slightly crunchy, or just use regular PB) in a spoon, then

top it with 2 or 3 chocolate chips that you have chopped into a few

pieces each.

Eat in one big mouthful, chewing the chocolate chunks or letting them

melt slowly, or take little bites of it until the spoonful is gone.

Calories: about 35, and approximately 2 grams each of carb/fat/protein.

OK, sorry about that, but after the holidays my sugar tolerance

and " expectation " is way up, and I'll be craving little treats like

this for another few weeks. Plus I've got a cold to " feed " . :-)

http://tenacity.net

[Guest guest]

As an FYI, it's easy to have BFL alternatives:

- smoothie with egg whites or protein powder, cocoa, splenda (if protein

powder is unsweetened), and 1 Tbsp of peanut butter.

- muffin with cocoa and peanut butter

- egg/oat pudding with cocoa and peanut butter

n T.

At 08:15 PM 1/4/2006, you wrote:

><SNIP>

>Take 1 tsp of " Better than Peanut Butter " (which is fortified with flax

>seeds and is slightly crunchy, or just use regular PB) in a spoon, then

>top it with 2 or 3 chocolate chips that you have chopped into a few

>pieces each.

<SNIP>

[Guest guest]

I use these options too.

I have to be sure the bag of chocolate chips don't end up in my

shopping cart, they'll eventually end up on my hips.

The cocoa powder just doesn't tempt me through the rest of the week.

M.

>

> As an FYI, it's easy to have BFL alternatives:

> - smoothie with egg whites or protein powder, cocoa, splenda (if

protein

> powder is unsweetened), and 1 Tbsp of peanut butter.

> - muffin with cocoa and peanut butter

> - egg/oat pudding with cocoa and peanut butter

> n T.

[Guest guest]

>

> Sometimes, when I'm having a terrible craving, instead

> of caving in, and eating an entire box of cookies or

> chips, I have just a tablespoon of peanut butter.

> Plus, after I do that, my cravings are GONE, whereas

> if I ate the chips/cookies, I'd have eaten a ton of

> unnecessary calories, felt very sick, and STILL wanted

> more... something magical about peanut butter...

Probably the differences in the fats .. those cookies have processed

hydrogenated transfats whereas peanutbutter (depending on brands

etc) has a small amount of saturated fat in its usual 17grams per

two tablespoons ..and interestingly enough peanutbutter also has

usually a matching amount or more grams of protein than carbs in it:

http://www.peanutbutter.com/natural.asp# so I would think this also

waylays the cravings attack.

joni

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*Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long*

[Guest guest]

Peanut butter spread on a sf Fudgicle is pretty good too.

Candace

>

> As an FYI, it's easy to have BFL alternatives:

> - smoothie with egg whites or protein powder, cocoa, splenda (if

protein

> powder is unsweetened), and 1 Tbsp of peanut butter.

> - muffin with cocoa and peanut butter

> - egg/oat pudding with cocoa and peanut butter

> n T.

>

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