Get More Peanuts and Peanut Butter in Your Diet
The Peanut Institute suggests:Using peanut butter on your bagel instead of butter or cream cheese, dipping vegetables and fruit in melted peanut butter instead of cream-based dressings, or sprinkling toasted peanuts on salads instead of croutons.
Here are some of our ideas:
- Dip apple slices in peanut butter
- Spread peanut butter onto a banana cut in half lengthwise
- Have a serving of dry roasted, reduced-salt nuts as a snack
- Spread peanut butter onto celery stalks
- Make your own trail mix with dried fruit and roasted nuts
- Have a peanut butter on whole grain bread for lunch
- Try peanut butter on toast or an English muffin at breakfast
- Spread peanut butter onto reduced-salt saltine crackers or whole wheat crackers
- Try peanut butter spread on tortilla or tortilla chips
- Spread peanut butter onto rice- or popcorn-cakes
- Mix nuts in with air popped or low-fat microwave popcorn
