Oh This Was GOOD!

I just made a Chocolate Peanut Butter Spread out of PB2, Cocoa Powder, Almond Milk and Stevia and it was really freaking good.

I have been putting peanut butter on an organic brown rice cake for a couple weeks now as a post-workout meal. The slow release carbs from the brown rice fuel muscle rebuild but do not spike blood sugar or insulin, at least that is how the story goes and for now it seems to be working. Anyway long story short these suckers come out at around 200 calories with the peanut butter. So I was just about to make one today and I had jus****ched a video on Chocolate Protein French Toast and the guy put peanut butter on it. So I started thinking it might be nice if the meal was a bit lower carb. Here is the recipe and it was so good I wish I had thought of this a long time ago:

1 TBSP of PB2

​1 tsp of unsweetened baking cocoa (I used ghirardelli natural)

1 TBSP of Unsweetened Almond Milk (I used vanilla)

1/2 packet of Stevia in the Raw

mix in a bowl, spread on your favorite container (celery would be good! and much lower carb/calorie)

Anyway this stuff comes in at 34 calories, 3 carbs, 3 protein, 2 fat, 2 fiber, 6 calcium and it tastes SO good!

So my 200 calorie rice cake is now down to 94. That's almost one whole beer for tonights HEAT comeback!

Sweet! Work it Keith.

AWESOME!!!!  Also, check out the alternative to PB2 that I posted today.  I'd love to hear your thoughts about it too!!

:)  Can't wait to try it... Going to do that NOW!!  lol

 

Trying that!!!

Although it is indeed lower in carbs (3 compared with 6, which makes a 12 calorie change) the major difference in calories is from fat. (2 compared with 6 at 9 calories per gram, which gives a 36 calorie change) I think I'd keep the fat (which I'm generally low on anyway) and skip the beer. (totally empty calories)

If you're counting the calcium in the almond milk, be aware that it's calcium carbonate, which means it isn't especially useful to us, unlike calcium citrate supplements and calcium lactate. (In dairy)

Since you're carb conscious, you may want to check out peanut flour, which is PB2 without the added salt and sugar. We bought some recently and like it even better than PB2.

What is PB2 ????

PB2 is sorta like powdered peanut butter. They squeeze all the oil out of peanuts, dehydrate and finely grind what is left. You can find it at some health food stores and online. I have seen it once or twice in the greenwise section of some larger publix

That sounds really good, will definitely have to try that.