Friday Food Face Off: Peanut Butter vs Organic Peanut Butter

Some of you who know me know how much I love peanut butter.

I didn’t get it very often as a kid, but as soon as I moved out  I got myself a jumbo-jar. I love it with apples amd bananas. Sometimes, I even take a spoonful of it on its own…kinda gross, I know, but I’m a big peanut butter fan!

In the interest of rehab, I recently bought an organic version.

Sure, it’s better for me. It doesn’t contain anything other than organic peanuts while my previous jar had a lengthy list of ingredients, mostly ones I couldn’t pronounce.  But I miss the creaminess of the non-organic kind. The oil doesn’t separate and that is NOT the case with the organic PB.  I suppose it’s a good thing that I’m reminded just how much oil/ fat is in peanut butter as it helps me to curb my spoon habit! I just find the organic peanut butter a bit too stiff and a bit too strong flavour-wise.

I always thought I was easy-going when it came to food.  I like most things. But if I can’t handle REAL peanut butter, does this mean that my palate has been damaged forever by the less flavourful, chemically enriched, modified food?

I know that I will get used to it, but at this point I have to give organic peanut butter a Thumbs Down!

Thanks to Capt. Moufette on Flickr for this photo!