I mean carbs in the bread, proteins and fat in the peanut butter. Use wholemeal bread for fibers.
Or are proportions off compared to recommendations?
Define “balanced meal”.
My general answer would be no. Bread is a pretty simple carb, and you’re looking at 200+ calories from 2 slices of bread, all simple carbs. The glycemic response from that would be: not good.
At least the fat in peanut butter will reduce the glycemic load.
And then most peanut butter has added sugars unless you specifically buy peanut butter without sugar.
More than that, most peanut butter has a lot of hydrogenated vegetable fats which are likely much worse than a bit of sugar.
If the package doesn’t have a tablespoon of peanut oil or so pooling at the top when you first open it, that you then need to mix it in, it’s hydrogenated.
Raw/natural PB tastes so much better anyways. I can’t buy anything else since I’ve tasted it.
Respectfully disagree. The super sweet creamy peanut butter from my childhood is one of the best tasting foods on the planet. Real peanut butter tastes like health food by comparison.
You can also check the ingredients. It should have exactly one ingredient, and that’s peanuts. Maybe salt too.
Don’t forget that the valuable peanut oil is separated hydraulically which fractures the peanut meal, and then they add back cheaper soybean oil.
(Side note: That’s why it separates, and that’s why even organic peanut butter separates, it’s because it’s been hydraulically fractured)
In my opinion, the only peanut butter that is worth a damn is fresh crushed from unsalted roasted peanuts.
I make a peanut butter concoction subbing a whole grain like spelt for the bread and using pb that is just peanuts. Would that be considered any better?
What nutritional goals are you assuming? Not everyone is trying to minimize caloric intake. Personally I need to make sure I actually eat enough in a day due to appetite curbing effects from my neurodivergence and medication. PB&J is in my experience the highest calories for cost and effort. It’s dirt cheap, almost effortless to make, and has a decent number of calories.
Too much sugar, and likely not a ton of fiber.
most sandwich bread in the us is processed garbage. if you had homemade or another high quality bread then itd be different. i tried daves killer for awhile and even gave that up because it still tastes so sweet.
I make this every week because you can’t buy white bread without a billion preservatives and whatnot https://www.theflavorbender.com/japanese-milk-bread-recipe-hokkaido-milk-bread/
I think most bread that’s available to buy is actually junk. Even the ‘wholemeal’ stuff, which itself obfuscates what you actually want: wholegrain. Ideally, the carbs percentage shouldn’t be more than 5 times the fibre percentage (according to the ‘How not to die’ book), but I’ve found that very little that actually meets that.
This is why people can become obese without understanding why: the over-processing of food considered as staples.
This How Not To Die book?
That sounds worth a read. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
That’s the book I was referring to, yep.
Mainly sugar, oil and fat and carbs from the wheat.
is it balanced? no is it perfect? yes
It has the “stuff”, but not in the ideal proportions. It’s not balanced at all. Even if you made the bread and the PB yourself, avoiding the processed filler that companies use, that’d still be, at best, a snack: something that’s good to eat, but never to fill yourself with.
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It’s horrible for the body. Don’t understand why people eat it, and on white bread sandwiches!!
May as well sign up for fat camp discounts.
Healthy breakfast is tea, oatmeal porridge, greek yoghurt, some fruits, eggs, vegetables. If you are going to eat bread, pick ones with dark bread and fibers.
You… don’t know why people eat an incredibly cheap, filling, and tasty sandwich?
oi mate you got your nut oil loiscence?
