What do you do with Powdered Peanut Butter?? (PB2 or other brands)

[umsami]

We have a bag and use it mainly in smoothies.  I know some people add it to yogurt or oatmeal.

 

What are your favorite things to do with PB2?

[MEmama]

I've wondered.

 

Just curious, but why not just use regular peanut butter in your smoothies?

[Jean in Newcastle]

Smoothies here.  We have reconstituted it for use on hikes as well (while on the hike). 

[prairiewindmomma]

I've wondered.

 

Just curious, but why not just use regular peanut butter in your smoothies?

 

It has a lot lower calorie content. For those of us who have very slow metabolisms, it's a way to change up flavor without adding a ton of calories.

 

Honestly, I use it primarily in smoothies. I only get 1200 calories a day.  I've seen these recipes, though, and some look intriguing: https://www.muscleforlife.com/healthy-pb2-recipes/

[shawthorne44]

In our house, we buy a container of it, and then store the container because while it sounded like a good idea at the time, I have no idea what to do with it.  

[SamanthaCarter]

I think it tastes weird in smoothies. I've been replacing a bit of the flour with it in pb cookies to give them a more peanutty flavor, but I haven't figured out enough tasty uses for it to ever buy it again.

 

 

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Edited November 8, 2017 by SamanthaCarter

[momto3innc]

I use it anywhere I want a PB taste without the calories. The vast majority of the time in smoothies. I’ve also used it in oatmeal and in frozen banana “ice creamâ€. I like a strong PB flavor that would just require way more PB than my pants will allow.

[wonderchica]

Could you make "fudge"? You can make protein fudge with protein powder and coconut oil.

[tdbates78]

I've used it in overnight oats with cocoa and banana, smoothies and in the banana "ice cream". I love peanut butter but its something lime 85% fewer calories and still gives off a peanut butter flavor.

[Zoo Keeper]

We sometimes add it to our pancake or waffle batter...along with chocolate chips. :)

Edited November 8, 2017 by Zoo Keeper

[mamaraby]

I use it anywhere I would use a nut butter, but less fat and fewer calories. Peanut sauce most notably.

[Anne]

I often add it to chia pudding.

 

Anne

[mmasc]

I use it anywhere I would use a nut butter, but less fat and fewer calories. Peanut sauce most notably.

Can you share a recipe, and tell me what you put the sauce on?

[mamaraby]

Can you share a recipe, and tell me what you put the sauce on?

Lol, I tend to kinda wing it off of existing recipes and I never write anything down much to the consternation of my family. Of the ones that popped up on Google, these are the ones that seem most like what I would make (except in the cases where they’re not, I would make them vegan) -

 

http://theskinnyfork.com/blog/skinny-thai-peanut-dressing

http://www.emilybites.com/2013/05/thai-chicken-skewers-with-peanut-sauce.html

http://www.veganricha.com/2015/12/peanut-sauce-fried-rice.html (sauce is at the top of the recipe)

 

*Then you can use it as a dipping sauce for your protein of choice.

*You can make noodle bowls (soba, rice, undon, linguine, etc) with veggies (snow peas, shredded coleslaw mix, sliced peppers, sliced carrots, cilantro) and the top with the sauce with or without an additional protein.

*Same thing for a rice bowl.

*You could make something like pad thai (add tamarind paste to the sauce) using wide rice noodles and broccoli plus tofu and/or eggs.

*It would be good with sweet potatoes either using a spiralizer to make “noodles†or to top a baked sweet potato.

*You could make spring rolls and use it as a dipping sauce. There’s a food cart at the university near here that makes a burrito using the rice paper as a wrapper and collard greens plus other veg.

*As a sauce on a wrap

 

I think I’m out of peanut sauce meal ideas now. :D

 

ETA: I lied. You can use it as a sauce on “pad thai†pizza. Pick your favorite crust, peanut sauce on top, pad thai type toppings (minus the noodles) and go without cheese or use pepper jack. When it comes out top with bean sprouts nand cilantro.

Edited November 9, 2017 by mamaraby

[mmasc]

Lol, I tend to kinda wing it off of existing recipes and I never write anything down much to the consternation of my family. Of the ones that popped up on Google, these are the ones that seem most like what I would make (except in the cases where they’re not, I would make them vegan) -

 

http://theskinnyfork.com/blog/skinny-thai-peanut-dressing

http://www.emilybites.com/2013/05/thai-chicken-skewers-with-peanut-sauce.html

http://www.veganricha.com/2015/12/peanut-sauce-fried-rice.html (sauce is at the top of the recipe)

 

*Then you can use it as a dipping sauce for your protein of choice.

*You can make noodle bowls (soba, rice, undon, linguine, etc) with veggies (snow peas, shredded coleslaw mix, sliced peppers, sliced carrots, cilantro) and the top with the sauce with or without an additional protein.

*Same thing for a rice bowl.

*You could make something like pad thai (add tamarind paste to the sauce) using wide rice noodles and broccoli plus tofu and/or eggs.

*It would be good with sweet potatoes either using a spiralizer to make “noodles†or to top a baked sweet potato.

*You could make spring rolls and use it as a dipping sauce. There’s a food cart at the university near here that makes a burrito using the rice paper as a wrapper and collard greens plus other veg.

*As a sauce on a wrap

 

I think I’m out of peanut sauce meal ideas now. :D

 

ETA: I lied. You can use it as a sauce on “pad thai†pizza. Pick your favorite crust, peanut sauce on top, pad thai type toppings (minus the noodles) and go without cheese or use pepper jack. When it comes out top with bean sprouts nand cilantro.

This is very helpful! Thank you so much for the info! :)

[lmrich]

oatmeal - mostly overnight, but I did it in hot oatmal this morning

[OH_Homeschooler]

What are your favorite things to do with PB2?

Watch it collect dust?😂

 

When I remember I have it, I do like it mixed in with yogurt sometimes.

Edited November 9, 2017 by OH_Homeschooler

[kiwik]

I never heard of such a thing!

[MEmama]

I use it anywhere I would use a nut butter, but less fat and fewer calories. Peanut sauce most notably.

That's an interesting idea. Do you just mix it with water before adding your other sauce ingredients?

[mamaraby]

That's an interesting idea. Do you just mix it with water before adding your other sauce ingredients?

You can rehydrate it, but you don’t have to. The sauce has a stronger flavor over all if you don’t. Depending on how slack you want the sauce you can always add water after the fact. Or stock depending on how you’ll use it.

[Hilltopmom]

Muffins or smoothies