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Flourless peanut butter cookies
Recipe & nutrition facts: www.fitnesstreats.com/2011/09/flourless-peanut-butter-cookies/

I was wondering if a grilled cheese sandwich is a healthy option for lunch? I usually eat a pb&j sandwich, but I wanted something healthier. I usually eat apples or oranges with my lunch and sometimes I will just eat soup. Is there any healthy lunch options you would suggest? -Thanks

courtnico


Hi! A grilled cheese sandwich is not much healthier than a pb&j sandwich. It contains less sugar but it has more ‘bad fat’ (saturated fat).

A healthier option for lunch could be for example:
- a peanut butter sandwich (without jelly), using whole grain bread and unsweetened/unsalted natural peanut butter. 
- 2 cups of carrots, celery sticks, salad or low sodium soup
- 1 apple 
- water 

If you’re still hungry, you can add one cup of fat-free unsweetened Greek yogurt.

Can peanut butter be made from raw peanuts? Either I buy regular peanut butter with oils and stuff or I make my own.But where I live I have few options. I can only choose from oil roasted peanuts or raw? Which one should I choose?

Anonymous


When I buy peanut butter, the only ingredient I want to see listed on the jar is peanuts. No salt, no oils, nothing else than peanuts. Making your own is the best way to be sure you don’t get any extra stuff, but it can be troublesome. If you don’t have the time to make your own, some peanut butters with added oil and salt aren’t that unhealthy if you’re only eating a couple of teaspoons per day. Just make sure they don’t have a long ingredient list. The ‘nastiest’ kind of peanut butter are the ones with added sugar, maltrodextrine or other complicated names.

About raw versus roasted peanuts: Contrary to what their name implies, peanuts are not true nuts but a member of a family of legumes related to peas, lentils, chickpeas and other beans. Many nutritionists will tell you that eating raw nuts is healthier because the cooking process destroys the nutrients. Not so with peanuts, because there aren’t nuts. Both raw and roasted peanuts have advantages: eating roasted peanuts will give you more total antioxidants and vitamin E, but roasting may denature some of the monounsaturated fats that make raw peanuts heart healthy and filling. So, which should you choose? The option you prefer, or both so you benefit from the higher antioxidants in roasted peanuts as well as the unaltered monounsaturated fats in raw ones.

Home Made Peanut Butter Recipe

Peanut butter ice cream

Nutrition facts per serving: 150 kcal, 9.5g of fat, 9.25g of protein, 6.5g of carbs of which 5.7g sugars.

Ingredients:
- 15 cl soy milk
- 3 to 4 tablespoons of agave nectar (to taste, or use your favorite sweetener)
- 4 eggs
- 3 to 4 tablespoons of peanut butter
- 5 grams of agar-agar

Recipe is on my blogger-blog! www.fitnesstreats.com/2011/08/peanut-butter-ice-cream.html 

Snack-tip: just stick celery sticks in a jar filled with an inch (2,5 centimeters) of peanut butter for an easy snack on the go.

Source Lifehacker

Super easy-healthy peanut butter cookies
3 ingredients:
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup protein powder
- 1 apple

Put everything together in a food processor. Make little cookie balls with the cookie dough and cook for 15 to 20 min at 220 degrees Celsius (430 F) or until cookies are slightly brown.  

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