Good value peanut butter?

BitterAndTwisted

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Can anyone remember what size the Lidl's peanut butter is and how much it costs please?

The jar in my kitchen cupboard is 454 grammes and I believe it costs £1.19 at the moment

Steve059

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Palm oil plantations are devastating the rain forests and wiping out orangutans, amongst others.

http://ran.org/problem-palm-oil-factsheet

ASDA Smart Price: Peanuts (87%), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Palm Oil, Sea Salt.

Sainsbury's Basics: Peanuts (87%), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Palm Oil, Salt.

Tesco Everday Value: Peanuts (87%), Sunflower Oil, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Salt.

sharond101

I shall be buying the Tesco Everyday Value one then when I next nearby as there isn't one close to me.

~Chameleon~

Steve059 wrote: »

ASDA Smart Price: Peanuts (87%), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Palm Oil, Sea Salt.

Sainsbury's Basics: Peanuts (87%), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Palm Oil, Salt.

Tesco Everday Value: Peanuts (87%), Sunflower Oil, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Salt.

I'd still be wary as palm oil is often listed as vegetable oil in the ingredients list of many food items. Unless it actually states "does not contain palm oil" then I wouldn't trust the source. Also, there's no need to add extra oils, sugar and salt to peanut butter anyway. Meridian peanut butter is 100% peanuts, nothing else added

sharond101

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I'd still be wary as palm oil is often listed as vegetable oil in the ingredients list of many food items. Unless it actually states "does not contain palm oil" then I wouldn't trust the source. Also, there's no need to add extra oils, sugar and salt to peanut butter anyway. Meridian peanut butter is 100% peanuts, nothing else added

That's fab but it tastes horrid.

chuku

I'd been buying Kernel King at B&M as well and when I ran out I was happy when I discovered that Poundworld is currently selling Kernel King peanut butter at 2 for £1 - until I tried it, that is!

It's very different from the one sold in B&M in look and taste, and I also compared the list of ingredients and noticed that this one contains palm oil while the one B&M sells doesn't. I'm not sure why that is, because the jars look pretty much the same (apart from slightly different couloured labels etc.), but just a warning to everyone who thinks they might be getting a good deal: This peanut butter tastes absolutely rank and is worse than any value peanut butter I've tried.

sharond101

chuku I got a few from B&M bargains before which tasted awful too. They were in plastic jars with red lids. They all had the same batch number so I figured there was something wrong with the batch. I wrote to them and they sad they had changed the recipe back to it's original wholenut recipe and that all batch number beyond ????? would be the new recipe.

~Chameleon~

sharond101 wrote: »

That's fab but it tastes horrid.

I guess it all comes down to a matter of taste then as I find the other types far too sweet and have a tendency to glue your mouth together with the horrible claggy paste :rotfl:

spaceboy

Aldi or Lidl for peanut butter.

Aldi - 92% peanuts, peanut oil, sugar, palm oil, sea salt

spaceboy

Steve059 wrote: »

ASDA Smart Price: Peanuts (87%), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Palm Oil, Sea Salt.

Sainsbury's Basics: Peanuts (87%), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Palm Oil, Salt.

Tesco Everday Value: Peanuts (87%), Sunflower Oil, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Salt.

Rapeseed oil is better for you than sunflower oil imo. More mono-unsaturates - sunflower oil is very high in poly-unsaturates.