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PB2 and Yonanas
Feb. 26th, 2012 04:33 pmI don't usually post about products, but I tried an intriguing new item that's all the rage over on the WW forums. It's called PB2, and it's powdered peanut butter. Not peanut-butter-flavored powder, but real peanut butter from which the peanut oil has been extracted, leaving a flour-like powder with strong peanut taste for multiple uses, and reducing the fat by 85%. It can be reconstituted into creamy-style peanut butter by adding water, and two tablespoons are only 1 WW point, as opposed to 5 for commercial peanut butter (for folks on other weight loss plans, that same serving is 45 calories, 5 carbs, 5g protein). My real interest is in adding it to recipes. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beowabbit and I sprinkled it on our Kashi cereal this morning, and it was yummy! We want to try it in hot chocolate, and it can be added to basically any sweet or savory recipe that would benefit from peanutty goodness without most of the fat.
Right now it's hard to get in stores, and I bought ours online. You'll get it cheaper than I did if you get it off eBay or somewhere like that. Eventually I imagine Whole Foods or Trader Joe's will carry it.
Another product discovered on the forums that I'm considering for when the weather gets warmer and I want frozen treats is Yonanas. It is a device that makes dairy-free soft serve out of frozen bananas, mixed with any other fruit, nut or flavoring you care to add. You use over-ripe bananas so there's no need for added sweetener, and you can mix in any other flavors you like (I could add PB2, I guess!). Very healthy indeed, and vegan, unless you add something not vegan.
Problem is I have NO counter space in my kitchen -- literally no counters, just the eating table and the stove top. It's a somewhat bulky piece of equipment that only does this one thing (and we know what Alton Brown says about THAT.) What I'm considering is seeing if anyone living very nearby would be interested in going in on it with me, and it could live in their better-countered kitchen and I could come over now and then to make some product to bring home.
Anyway, new stuff. Had to share.
beowabbit and I sprinkled it on our Kashi cereal this morning, and it was yummy! We want to try it in hot chocolate, and it can be added to basically any sweet or savory recipe that would benefit from peanutty goodness without most of the fat. Right now it's hard to get in stores, and I bought ours online. You'll get it cheaper than I did if you get it off eBay or somewhere like that. Eventually I imagine Whole Foods or Trader Joe's will carry it.
Another product discovered on the forums that I'm considering for when the weather gets warmer and I want frozen treats is Yonanas. It is a device that makes dairy-free soft serve out of frozen bananas, mixed with any other fruit, nut or flavoring you care to add. You use over-ripe bananas so there's no need for added sweetener, and you can mix in any other flavors you like (I could add PB2, I guess!). Very healthy indeed, and vegan, unless you add something not vegan.
Problem is I have NO counter space in my kitchen -- literally no counters, just the eating table and the stove top. It's a somewhat bulky piece of equipment that only does this one thing (and we know what Alton Brown says about THAT.) What I'm considering is seeing if anyone living very nearby would be interested in going in on it with me, and it could live in their better-countered kitchen and I could come over now and then to make some product to bring home.
Anyway, new stuff. Had to share.