Peanut Butter
#187948 - 06/21/05 04:05 PM
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Sweetd
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Hi everyone,
I have a question. Peanut Butter isn't safe is it? I tried to incoropate it today and my stomach is bothering me a little bit. I don't know if it is the Peanut Butter or if it is something else.
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Ibs-d and fructose sensitive.
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Try light peanut butter. It's lower in fat but higher in sugar - which is OK for IBS. Still, keep it in small doses.
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That's what I had. But it was chunky light, maybe that was the problem. I did try to chew it as throughly as I could.
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I'm not sure that it's the chewing so much as the fat. You need to make sure that your whole meal is low fat, which (for me at least) means that you use hefty slices of bread and spread the peanut butter thinly. Or else you have a small sandwich plus some other low-fat and high in SF foods.
--AC
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That is what I did. I tried to spread it as thin as posible, but it didn't work so well. I don't like the bread from the HFS, b/c I don't like the taste, so the regular bread is so thin. The bread was (white bread toasted, which never bothers me) two thin slices. I should try to apread it thinner next time. Thanks.
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Or you can just have some other low-fat food at the same time - no need to try to keep the peanut butter thickness down to a single molecule!  Maybe some applesauce on the side? Or a banana?
You could also try some other nut butters to see if they work better for you. I swear that I can eat more almond or cashew butter than peanut butter....
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I will try that, thanks. You know, I can eat tons of almonds and cashews as well. I haven't tried them in the spreads, b/c they are so expensive but I can always eat them whole and forget the peanut butter all together if this doen't work. I think I will try what you said and eat it with sf. Thanks!
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Even the reduced fat PB (which I eat very often) has 6g per Tablespoon and a tablespoon is not that big. Also some people don't do so well with PB/peanuts no matter what. Many use other nut butters.
About the fat calculations. I have a PB&J on work days. 2 peices of bread, less than 1T PB and some homemade jam= about 270 cals and 7grams of fat but that is 23% fat which is pretty high. I eat mine in two halves a ways apart and eat a banana or carrots around the same time too just to be safe.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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b/c peanut butter is an immediate trigger for me, no matter how thinly spread. but I'm stating to see that even my beloved cashews hurt too.
My dietitian says we don't really need that much protein in our lives-4 oz a day is enough. So we don't ahve to force it if we don't want to. But I so love PB. Wah!
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Thanks Little Minnie! I will try that.
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Re: Peanut Butter
#188196 - 06/22/05 08:42 AM
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Sand
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You can check this thread for an even lighter peanut butter.
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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Trader Joe's Almond Butter is much cheaper than the other brands and it's pure. It comes in roasted and raw and it's delicious either way.
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I would like to try a safe lower fat version.
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that make this "tricky"? I mean, do people who have problems with PB also have problems with dairy free margarine too (in small amounts), like Earth Balance...which also has 10 grams of fat per Tablespoon?
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Both...
#188501 - 06/22/05 10:28 PM
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Linz
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...some people have issues with nut, but not fat so much, some people are fine with nuts but have to really watch how much fat they eat and some people are fine with the whole caboodle.
PS. And I know peanuts aren't real nuts, but hey, I don't think my tum does! 
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So, some people can tolerate small amounts of dairy free butter but not small amounts of peanut butter, even though the fat content is the same. Hmmm. And some people couldn't do either because of the high fat content of both. Then, some people could do both.
Well, isn't this a sticky situation to figure out! Too many variables and guessing! I wouldn't know if it was the peanuty part or the fat part since I am not stable and everything seems to hurt.
One more question, would people who have problems with peanut butter also have problems with almond or cashew butter? Almond butter has sams fat content, but different source of nut. I know people have peanut allergies but I wonder if they can still eat cashews?  And I wonder if peanut intolerance would also mean cashew or almond intolerance.
Okay, I'm making myself dizzy here. BTW, peanuts are not nuts? 
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Firstly, I'd recommend that you wait to try out nuts and nut butters until you're stable, b/c as you've realised, it'll be really hard atm for you to tell what you can tolerate.
Secondly, peanuts are apparently legumes!
Thirdly, a peanut allergy does NOT mean a cashew allergy. And unfortunately, if you have a problem with peanuts but not the fat, you won;t know if you have a problem with other "nuts".
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I have used it for many years. A serving is 12g but that is 2T.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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