Bad Idea

(Vladaar Malane) #1

So, I made peanut butter cookies yesterday, without doing the math first. Gained a pound this morning from that failure.

I used regular peanut butter and didn’t add sugar which normally it calls for 1 cup of sugar. Instead I used cream cheese and 1/8 cup of stevia.

My thinking was that peanut butter itself, probably doesn’t have much more sugar per cookie than eating a Dark Chocolate bar. The cookies really aren’t that sweet tasting, but that was deceiving.

But I did the math this morning when I realized each cookie had 3.96 grams sugar just from the peanut butter, compared to 2 grams for a whole chocolate bar which I don’t normally eat the whole bar in one sitting.

Anyway, it’s a bad idea to use real peanut butter. Or at least if you do restrain yourself to 1 cookie, I think I had 4 when they were still hot. I’m going to have to try this with non-sugar peanut butter and see if I can get it to taste as well.

Morale of the story is do the math first if possible, and don’t make peanut butter cookies if you can’t stop at just one. LoL.

(Pete A) #2

Great you learned! The only peanut butter I’d eat would have an ingredients label that says: “Peanuts”. Maybe salt.

Unfortunately I don’t partake of it at all as a portion for me is around 3 tablespoons or more haha

(Karen) #3

But butters are hard for me to stop eating. Yum, though.

K

(Rob) #4

It depends on the peanut butter. There are some niche brands with very low carbs but the commercial ones are 4-6 net carbs per tbs.

PB seems to be my Achilles heel since I cannot just have a spoonful at a time and keep dipping back in with a kind of out of body experience. Nothing else so far has done that… chocolate I can take a square and no more, It is probably the carbs but I’ve decided to avoid PB for a while.

4 carbs per cookie is not the end of the world but I’d avoid it just because for me, one may become 2, may become 4 :yum::flushed::scream:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

Ditto here: one serving of peanut butter = one jar; one serving of fig bars = one box; one serving of doughnuts = one three dozen.

My biggest keto complaint is how long it takes me to get through a container of food now! I just finished a one-pound bag of nuts I had been working on for over two weeks—weird!