Sun Butter peanut free peanut butter alternative Free Sample

[Guest guest]

http://www.gofreebies.com/freebie.asp?id=2500

 

code: 3569 (They ask for this at the bottom of the form)

 

Products/Ingredients: (they also have trail mixes but those contain dairy, soy

and wheat. Not sure which butter they will send!)

 

SunButter® Creamy

Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Sugar, Mono-Diglycerides to prevent separation,

Salt, and Natural Mixed Tocopherals to preserve freshness.

 

 

 

SunButter® Natural

Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Dehydrated Cane Juice, Salt, and Natural Mixed

Tocopherols to preserve freshness.

 

 

 

SunButter® Natural Crunch

Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Dehydrated Cane Juice, Salt and Natural Mixed

Tocopherols to preserve freshness.

 

 

SunButter® Organic

Ingredients: Fresh Roasted Organic Sunflower Seed

 

 

SunButter® Omega-3

Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Flaxseed, Dehydrated Cane Juice, Salt, and Natural

Mixed Tocopherols to preserve freshness.

[Guest guest]

We eat sunbutter in our house---not because we can't have nuts, but because

we try to rotate foods, and it's good to have options. Sunbutter is

surprisingly tasty---almost like a cross between almond butter and peanut

butter, or maybe almond butter and cashew butter. It's a little bit

different in that it tastes a bit . . . muddled? Or something? I was going

to say dusty-tasting, but it's not gritty or anything like that. It's just

clearly not exactly a nut butter to my taste buds. But it is good.

 

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM, catchadream04 <recyclednewwrote:

 

>

>

> http://www.gofreebies.com/freebie.asp?id=2500

>

> code: 3569 (They ask for this at the bottom of the form)

>

> Products/Ingredients: (they also have trail mixes but those contain dairy,

> soy and wheat. Not sure which butter they will send!)

>

> SunButter® Creamy

> Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Sugar, Mono-Diglycerides to prevent

> separation, Salt, and Natural Mixed Tocopherals to preserve freshness.

>

>

> SunButter® Natural

> Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Dehydrated Cane Juice, Salt, and Natural Mixed

> Tocopherols to preserve freshness.

>

>

> SunButter® Natural Crunch

> Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Dehydrated Cane Juice, Salt and Natural Mixed

> Tocopherols to preserve freshness.

>

>

> SunButter® Organic

> Ingredients: Fresh Roasted Organic Sunflower Seed

>

>

> SunButter® Omega-3

> Ingredients: Sunflower Seed, Flaxseed, Dehydrated Cane Juice, Salt, and

> Natural Mixed Tocopherols to preserve freshness.

>

>

>

 

 

 

--

" If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two

aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass. If it

persists, you probably ought to write a novel. "

—Lawrence Block, Writing the Novel From Plot to Print

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I think it tastes closer to tahini or pumpkin seed butter but more sweet.

It does contain soy in the form of tocopherols for preservation if that's of

concern to people but it is an excellent alternative to peanut butter,

especially for school lunches in facilities that do not allow peanut

butter. The sample packs are actually available for purchase, containing 1

tbsp and are perfect for brown bagging.

 

BL

 

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Sally Parrott Ashbrook <

sally.parrott wrote:

 

> We eat sunbutter in our house---not because we can't have nuts, but because

> we try to rotate foods, and it's good to have options. Sunbutter is

> surprisingly tasty---almost like a cross between almond butter and peanut

> butter, or maybe almond butter and cashew butter. It's a little bit

> different in that it tastes a bit . . . muddled? Or something? I was going

> to say dusty-tasting, but it's not gritty or anything like that. It's just

> clearly not exactly a nut butter to my taste buds. But it is good.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I find bulk purchases of sample packs really wasteful, though. It's one

thing to carry them on a trip where you might be in a pinch, but on a

regular basis? All that packaging in the garbage is just sad.

 

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Brenda-Lee Olson <

shalomaleichemacademy wrote:

 

>

>

> I think it tastes closer to tahini or pumpkin seed butter but more sweet.

> It does contain soy in the form of tocopherols for preservation if that's

> of

> concern to people but it is an excellent alternative to peanut butter,

> especially for school lunches in facilities that do not allow peanut

> butter. The sample packs are actually available for purchase, containing 1

> tbsp and are perfect for brown bagging.

>

> BL

>

>

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Sally Parrott Ashbrook <

> sally.parrott <sally.parrott%40gmail.com>> wrote:

>

> > We eat sunbutter in our house---not because we can't have nuts, but

> because

> > we try to rotate foods, and it's good to have options. Sunbutter is

> > surprisingly tasty---almost like a cross between almond butter and peanut

> > butter, or maybe almond butter and cashew butter. It's a little bit

> > different in that it tastes a bit . . . muddled? Or something? I was

> going

> > to say dusty-tasting, but it's not gritty or anything like that. It's

> just

> > clearly not exactly a nut butter to my taste buds. But it is good.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Well I would rather send a small amount of plastic than have the children

take an unnecessarily large portion since they will eat what is sent rather

than monitoring themselves. With the sample packets of the sunbutter, the

container is recyclable where facilities are available so it doesn't seem

like it needs to go in the trash.

 

Each person has to do their own as to what suits his or her family best :-).

 

BL

 

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Sally Parrott Ashbrook <

sally.parrott wrote:

 

> I find bulk purchases of sample packs really wasteful, though. It's one

> thing to carry them on a trip where you might be in a pinch, but on a

> regular basis? All that packaging in the garbage is just sad.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I use sunbutter all the time, my daughter is allergic to most nuts. I've used

it to make cookies, muffins, sunbutter/jam crackers (like a sandwich but with

crackers), soup (variation on groundnut (peanut) soup), and basically anywhere

you can use peanut butter. It has a similar consistancy - we usually use the

creamy, since she has an aversion to the pieces in the crunchy kind.

 

If you wanted to make you own sample/single serving size packs, but didn't want

to use the disposable packaging - you could buy small tupperware containers and

put the amount you want to send, then it could just be washed and re-used. I

keep my sunbutter in the fridge, but as far as I know it should be fine in a

lunchbox/sack for a few hours.

[Guest guest]

Akua--Yes, that's what we do---make our own serving-size, reusable packages

when we want that type of thing.

 

BL, I in no way meant offense to you with my comment. I just think that we,

as a society, as a world, have to think through decisions that require the

uses of petroleum, create garbage, etc. As you probably already know,

'reduce, reuse, recycle' is in that order because recycle is a last resort

if you can't reduce packaging or otherwise reuse it. And recycling food

packaging that has food clinging to it is difficult; even if you put

sunbutter sample packaging in a recycling bin, it's likely it would still

end up in the landfill.

 

Sally

 

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, akua456 <akua456 wrote:

 

>

>

> I use sunbutter all the time, my daughter is allergic to most nuts. I've

> used it to make cookies, muffins, sunbutter/jam crackers (like a sandwich

> but with crackers), soup (variation on groundnut (peanut) soup), and

> basically anywhere you can use peanut butter. It has a similar consistancy -

> we usually use the creamy, since she has an aversion to the pieces in the

> crunchy kind.

>

> If you wanted to make you own sample/single serving size packs, but didn't

> want to use the disposable packaging - you could buy small tupperware

> containers and put the amount you want to send, then it could just be washed

> and re-used. I keep my sunbutter in the fridge, but as far as I know it

> should be fine in a lunchbox/sack for a few hours.

>

>

>

 

 

 

--

" If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two

aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass. If it

persists, you probably ought to write a novel. "

—Lawrence Block, Writing the Novel From Plot to Print

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

That's what I do with peanut butter, hummus, etc. Just get the

smallest container you can, put a spoonful or two in, and you are good

to go. The smallest tupperware containers tend to be fairly large

still (1/2 cup usually), but you don't have to fill it up. If you

want a still smaller container, get a travel bag at Wal-Mart or a

dollar store filled with bottles and tiny screw-top jars that are

intended for medicine, lip gloss, makeup, etc. Sometimes you can find

containers in the dollar store in the baby food section that are 1/4

cup size. Again, you don't need to fill it all the way.

 

Pam

 

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:26 AM, akua456 <akua456 wrote:

>

>

> I use sunbutter all the time, my daughter is allergic to most nuts. I've

> used it to make cookies, muffins, sunbutter/jam crackers (like a sandwich

> but with crackers), soup (variation on groundnut (peanut) soup), and

> basically anywhere you can use peanut butter. It has a similar consistancy -

> we usually use the creamy, since she has an aversion to the pieces in the

> crunchy kind.

>

> If you wanted to make you own sample/single serving size packs, but didn't

> want to use the disposable packaging - you could buy small tupperware

> containers and put the amount you want to send, then it could just be washed

> and re-used. I keep my sunbutter in the fridge, but as far as I know it

> should be fine in a lunchbox/sack for a few hours.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I understand Sally, really :-) And no offense was taken. Where I live I

have to pay shipping on the sunbutter too and getting it from the US is so

very costly. When I got things from work, even if the product was free,

shipping cost me $50 a box so I had to decide carefully.

 

We all have to make choices based on what works best for our families. My

guys are terrible about brining things home so it gets costly.

 

That's what I get for birthing absent minded geniuses apparently - and I

mean that in the nicest sense. All three boys qualified for gifted programs

and two have IQ tests proving they are over 150 :-) - they just have a

problem remembering the ordinary stuff.

 

Thanks for explaining and for being concerned. I didn't mean to sound

offended but that's the problem with this medium.

 

BL

 

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Sally Parrott Ashbrook <

sally.parrott wrote:

 

> Akua--Yes, that's what we do---make our own serving-size, reusable packages

> when we want that type of thing.

>

> BL, I in no way meant offense to you with my comment. I just think that

> we,

> as a society, as a world, have to think through decisions that require the

> uses of petroleum, create garbage, etc. As you probably already know,

> 'reduce, reuse, recycle' is in that order because recycle is a last resort

> if you can't reduce packaging or otherwise reuse it. And recycling food

> packaging that has food clinging to it is difficult; even if you put

> sunbutter sample packaging in a recycling bin, it's likely it would still

> end up in the landfill.