Bryan: Glad to have you post again, thanks for visiting! As for the peanut butter the Smuckers Natural only lists peanuts and salt as the ingredients so you’d be in luck. As for stirring up the oil, I hate that also but Adam had a good solution. Simply pour out part of the oil into another dish and mix what’s left. When that’s done add in the rest for a mess free mixing.

Dave: Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to look for that next time I’m needing pb.

I’ve never seen Smucker’s peanut butter.

My main problem with natural peanut butter sold in a jar is that when you do stir it up for the first time, the jar is full and the peanut oil spills all over the counter.

I’m irritated at Costco — my usual supermarket — because they used to sell 3 kinds of peanut butter: Jif regular, Jif nutty and Laura Scudder’s. They’ve discontinued the Laura Scudder’s and have instead added their own private label of “organic” peanut butter. I have to say that it tastes really good, but I don’t like it containing “organic sugar” and “organic palm oil”. I wrote Costco about this and they said that they added the sugar so that children would like it and they added the palm oil because it is a natural way to stablize it so that you don’t have to stir it. The word “refrigerate” is nowhere to be found on the jar. Still, I would prefer peanuts and salt only.

I wasn’t intending to be a regular participant on your blog comments, but I do feel pasionate about peanut butter. It’s one of my main sources of protein besides tuna and chicken.