Hello, my name is Heather and I am a nut butter hoarder.
Though I like to think of it more like “collecting.” 😉
TEN jars lie within the dark and secret-y shelves of my pantry….nine of which are currently open…two of which I guess aren’t “technically” nut butter…one of which I’ve realized I don’t really like…and another one of which expired a year ago.
#noshame
I can’t help it. Whenever I see a new and intriguing nut butter, I just HAVE to have it…hence the “cinnayum” peanut butter at the top right (found that baby at TJ Maxx!), but a few weeks ago, I decided that it was HIGH time I started making my way through some of my “collection”…
So one morning I whipped up a bowl of Greek yogurt, figs, and coconut peanut butter.
It was so good, the next day, I made the same bowl with peaches and blueberries!
Then, I didn’t want the other jars feeling like the coconut peanut butter was getting special treatment so I moved on to some vanilla espresso almond butter and had it with some cherries.
But then I ended up coming BACK to the coconut peanut butter…this time with figs AND raspberries!
But then I was like, no Heather, the other nut butters need a chance…so I pulled out a super secret packet of chocolate coconut peanut butter and drizzled it over a bowl with figs and peaches AND some healthy chocolate sauce.
Then I started getting tired of Greek yogurt so I made my way to some carby goodness with a bowl of oats, raspberries, blueberries and more of the ninja chocolate coconut peanut butter.
But then the coconut butter called to me so in a bowl glass it went with some oats, figs, and cacao nibs.
Note to self: cold oats + warm coconut butter = DEEEEEE-VINE!
Then I felt like I should spread (ahh, see what I did there? ;)) the nut butter love a little more so I pulled a P28 bagel from the depths of my freezer and slopped on some coconut peanut butter (so, any question as to which one is my favorite?) and figs.
Regular bread got in on the action too with some regular peanut butter, blueberries, and blueberry jam.
Then I was totally feeling finger food-y!
Figger food-y?
Look, it’s a faux fig-hawk! 😉
Had to happen.
Note to self: Make this your last meal…with a spoon the size of a friggin’ serving platter!
What can I say, I’m in LUV!
And of course, all of this was just a way to shove my face full of MORE summer sweetness! 😉
Now head on over to Peas & Crayons, give a shout out to our hostess and NEW MOMMY, and then see if anyone else linking up is as “nutty” as me! 😉
Ok. Dude. That was corny.
Are there any specific foods you tend to hoard collect?
Of course, you guys KNOW how I am with my mustard but I’m also pretty sure I’m the only single gal with a dedicated “cheese drawer” in her fridge…which may or may not hold thirteen different kinds right now. 😯
Woah I am jealous of your nit butter collection!! Here in Australia nut butter is pretty basic we only have nut only flavours…we are so so behind!
i never have that many nut butter jars because uhhhhh my nut butter never lasts very long!
I’ve finally started cutting down on the amount of nut butters I keep in my cabinets, because I’ve been running out of space! haha How is that coconut peanut butter spread?!
Omg girl, it’s AMAZING!! Hence the reason it dominated about 75% of the eats in this post! And if you’re a crunchy peanut butter kind of gal, theirs is the BEST because you get your crunch but it’s still nice and drizzly! 😀
My kitchen looks identical…AB, PB, Coconut butter, pumpkin seed butter, PISTACHIO BUTTTER, sunbutter, hazelnut butter…I think I have a problem!
[Nut] possibly getting more awesome by the day edible art in bowls – that’d be the proper title for this post. Never mind how the length.
“I didn’t want the other jars feeling like the coconut peanut butter was getting special treatment” – and from now on you’ll be Heather, the spokeswoman of the Equal Rights of Nut Butters movement to me. I’m admiring your selfless care for all of those little neglected nut butters hanging out in the pantry :D. Now how about spreeeading that love even further by mailing me some, pretty please ;)? Just reading about all the flavours you can find over there makes me feel so [nut butter] deprived. Hello, all of about eight kinds of plain (!) nut butter available …
Aaaand you just inspired some figgy eats. Figger food? Yes!
“The spokeswoman of the Equal Rights of Nut Butters movement”…hmm, that has quite the ring to it, no? 😉 What can I say, just doing my part! Lol
You only have plain?!?! Oh honey, that is damn near catastrophic! 🙁
My favorite post ever!!!!! I’m a total nutbutter hoarder too. If like the Pacific Beach Cinnamon PB, you need to try the same Brandt’s toffee PB. It’s amazing….and I don’t use that word lightly!
TOFFEE PEANUT BUTTERRRRRRR?!?!?! Mind = BLOWN!
Ps, I’m probably going to end up hating you for telling me this! 😉
Girl, if only you could see my fridge/ cupboard. My husband has the nickname ‘condiment queen’ for me. Haha. I have 11 open nut butters right now and 8 different kinds of mustards (hence condiment queen). Plus a stash of ‘nut butter stock’ for when I run out. Ha!
Condiment queen! Haha! Love it! Omg, I have no idea how many mustards I have at this point…it’s gotten pretty absurd! Haha!
Nut butter stock…omg, you’re killing me!
Haha I thought I was extreme with the fact that I usually have 5-6 jars on the go…you put me to shame lady! :-p I spotted the coconut peanut butter recently, I’m going to have to pick that up. I mean, that combo sounds pretty much ideal (although, I suppose it could be made even better with added chocolate…
Oh yes, yes it CAN!! The chocolate coconut peanut butter from Wild Friends is ahhhhhmazing! And seriously coconut mixed with ANY nut butter is the best! I love the drizzly consistency that you get from the coconut oil…I think I’m going to have to start making my own! COCONUT ALL THE THINGS! 😉
And for the record, Amanda (Spoons) is just as bad! Lol
AHHH nut butter porn, or what?! I’m a collector… I mean hoarder of butters too. I’m so jealous of your access to fresh figs – I can never find decent ones here. 🙁
Oh, I am soooo you! Besides that I collect squeeze packs and not jars cause they are cheaper to ship and don’t give me the urge to eat the whole jar….though I would die for a jar of cacao bliss, my favorite!
I am also a protein bar hoarder, literally anything that I get from the US I still have stuff from back in June!
DAMMIT!! If I had known, I would have sent you a jar! I had an extra one that I just mailed to my FPP for this month! *hangs head in shame* I’ll have to keep my eyes out for another jar at TJ Maxx (super cheap) so I can get you one! 😀
I used to be the WORST (best?) protein bar hoarder, but I’ve finally whittled it down to mostly Quest Bars now…I’m seriously addicted!
you might be surprised because i don’t eat A TON of nut butter in a single day, but i have a collection going myself… macadamia… three types of almond… no wait maybe like 5? a peanut butter, coconut, tahini, sunflower, oh the list goes on 😉
Oh yes, love this post! So many amazing flavors of nut butter and so many amazing looking fresh fruits! I have been loving figs recently, now ill have to try them stuffed with almond butter 🙂
YES!!! Though I must admit, mine don’t ever last much longer than a week or two…if that. 😉
I think I would hoard nut butter too if we had that many different options in the UK – it just means that whenever I go to the U.S. I end up bringing so many different ones back…when I came back from L.A. in March I had about 15 different types of nut butters…..there’s now only 5 left. 🙁 Very upsetting!
I love putting nut butter on yoghurt bowls too – it’s so delicious!
Oh WOW!! Hahaha! I would have done the same exact thing! Bonus points if you bought most of them from the same store! 😉
And I thought I was a nut butter addict. This post has made me so hungry, even though I’ve just eaten my lunch at work, practically drooling at my desk. I think I need a date with a spoon and a jar of almond butter!
You are most def a woman after my own heart <3 I love love love nut butter and literally have to have it in some shape or form every day. If its the end of the day and I realized I didn't have any yet? Well, I just grab a spoon and take a mouthful. No day shall pass without the gloriousness of nut butter! 😉
“No day shall pass without the gloriousness of nut butter!” <- Haha! LOVE IT!! And now...I'm trying to remember the last day that went by where I did NOT have nut butter... #missionaccomplished! 😉
As I was scrolling down the page my eyes just kept getting wider because each picture looked so gloriously delicious. I am a nut butter hoarder too, I confess. 🙂
you are my new BFF! I thought i was the only hoarder! Glad to know I am not 🙂 I have to know, which one did you not like? And which one did you neglect for a whole year!?! The lastest nut butter I have tried was coconut almond butter (maranatha) and wildfriends honey peanut pretzel, yum! I always love nikkis coconut butter too!
Woo hoo! Nut butter hoarders UNITE!!
I’ve never tried Nikki’s but I have lusted over it online on SEVERAL occasions! Haha! I love the WF honey pretzel peanut butter, but their chocolate coconut peanut butter is probably my favorite. How’s the Maranatha? I saw it at the store the other day, but successfully resisted the temptation!
And to answer YOUR questions: I don’t like the Cacao Bliss (because it doesn’t melt like regular coconut butter and it always tastes sort of burnt to me…BUT I’m going to give it another try in some warm oats to see if that makes a difference…I’ll keep ya posted! ;)) and the expired one is the cashew butter (which still tastes perfectly fine to me #gutofsteel). I’m the worst with the ones that you have to keep in the fridge…I always forget about them!
Fantastic post! So yummy! I love to eat nut butter with all my fruits. I love hazelnut butter with figs! THE BEST EVER!!!!!
I’m drooling over every single picture. Now i need to go out and buy myself some fresh figs just so I can dip them in nut butter. YUM.
Yes…yes you DO! 😉
I NEED to come raid your stash!! 😉
Ooh, I’ve been eating those P28 bagels with PB and banana before long runs but I’m trying it with figs instead this weekend! YUM! I’m nut butter addicted too, no worries 🙂
I hoard Spices and Herbs! My spice cabinet if filled and I need to find more space ASAP! I have about every and any spice/herb you could ever need.
is that cinnayum not that best thing ever??? i have also tried their white chocolate and it is ah-mazing!
also coconut butter (especially chocolate) is probably the best thing over. especially over warm oats. man. i haven’t done that in awhile. i need to.
i like you am a nut butter hoarder. i have about 6 open jars. awesome, but at the same thing having that many open jars makes it harder to empty them, then you have to wait even long for an OIAJ opportunity.
ps i am totally jealous of your P28 bagel. i ran out awhile ago and miss them dearly.
and i just want to guess, but i’m assuming that ovomaltine is the one you don’t like 😉 i have yet to try that sample you sent me…
Omg, you haven’t tried it yet?! Heeding my warning, eh? Chicken! 😉 Lol I actually don’t really like the Cacao Bliss (even though I LOVVVVVE regular coconut butter), but maybe I should give it another try over some warm oats. I was going to heat it up and drizzle it over my cold oats the other day but it wouldn’t melt right in the microwave…and then I burnt it! Womp womp!
And seriously, yes, the worst part about having a huge collection is having to wait! Though at the rate I’m going, here in a couple of weeks, I should be able to have OIAJ every day for a week! #winning
They make a white chocolate of this stuff?!! I haven’t opened it yet…trying to wait until I empty at LEAST two more jars, but I hear it’s pretty frickin’ amazing!
Glad you confessed it…bc I have the same problem. Not that you didn’t know that. But my large grocery sack of nut butters that I hide (ummm don’t ask why bc Steve doesn’t even eat nut butter AT ALL) haunts me. I think about it all the time. The guilt from not eating them. The guilt when I choose one or two and not the other ten. The guilt when I see one expiring soon and then completely ignore it…oh sigh. And the packets the piles of packets. Gahhhh!!! Why can’t I muster up the courage to just scoop and scoop till they’re gone??
Um, which one did you decide you didn’t like??
And I felt SO guilty when I let a jar of coconut butter expire with only trying it once YEARS ago. And I just keep wanting to give it a try again but I know something similar could happen so I’m trying not to buy another jar.
Haha! Just do it girl…grab a spoon and DON’T LOOK BACK!! I honestly think I used to be a bit intimidated by the stash…like no way I’d ever make it through all of them, but then I took a jar with me on vacation and had my first OIAJ in MONTHS! Just what I needed to pump up the motivation! 😉
I don’t really like the Cacao Bliss. I love their regular coconut butter, but the chocolate one doesn’t melt as well (I freakin’ burned some in the microwave the other day!) and it just tastes like it needs sweetening or something…even though I think the regular stuff tastes like cake frosting!
This is amazing!
Haha, daaaang girl – you’re not kidding. 🙂 I don’t think there are any foods I “collect.” I have a few cereals right now, but that’s not a normal thing. I also have two containers of ice cream in my freezer, but they were on sale. Hmmm… I guess it’s not too crazy.
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You are not alone! I’ve definitely been there…shelves on shelves of open nut-butters because I just couldn’t resist trying every new flavor/brand I found. It’s a problem…
I’ve gotten waaay better about it though. I think I only have 4 jars right now (peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter, and vanilla almond butter). I try to force myself to finish jars before buying new ones- it doesn’t always work out that way though!
At least all of your concoctions look delicious!
Haha! Yeah, the “plan” is always to finish a jar before replacing a jar, but umm, I don’t think I’ve ever actually put that plan into action! 😉
i’m really loving all the nut butter and fig lovin here..way to make a hungry girl drool for the first time today! p.s. i want a fig hawk :))
You are too funny! Now I need some nut butter!!! 🙂
we are probably coconut oil and plantains hoarders 😉
xoxo
I used to be a nut butter hoarder but I had to clean out my collection… more on that tomorrow on the blog. Now, I’m a fresh fruit hoarder. I’m so not ready for the summer fruits to be gone!!
You and me BOTH! I picked up a HUGE container of strawberries at Costco this past weekend and STILL went and bought raspberries last night before work! I’m just not ready to let them go yet!!
This whole post = A MAGICAL WONDERLAND UTOPIA.
SAME. I RELATE TO THIS TOO MUCH.
Love this post!! I can totally relate to your nut butter love… & hoarding. At one time I had close to 20 jars, although I didn’t like all of them & wasn’t currently eating ALL of them. I ended up finally tossing some out that I didn’t care for (hard to do) & let my collection dwindle down to maybe 5 jars or so now. Loved your nut butter variations. 🙂
Oh yeah, I had to do the same thing! I had a jar of banana nut Vermont Peanut Butter, but the flavor was just…”off”. Should have known…banana-flavored things just aren’t the same as actual BANANAS! I finally decided to toss it after I hung on to the jar for over a year! Ha!
I am also a major nut butter hoarder! I’ve gotten a bit better since I got married–my husband limits me to one jar per nut (i.e., one almond buter, one peanut butter, etc.).
HAHAHA! Why didn’t I think of the figs stuffed with nut butter? As I looked at your collection, I opened my cupboard and mine is pretty well stocked with NuttZo and Justin packets. I wanted to buy some more at the store, but I controlled myself and said NO until you finish the others. LOL!
Haha! Story of my life…the internal battle that rages whenever I pass the nut butter aisle at the grocery store! Lol
Oh.sweet.mother 😯 This post… THIS POST! Drooling over here, lady. My but butter collection is pretty epic as well, and it would be even BIGGER if I could actually eat more than just AB and coconut butter 😉 I have my favourite (Maisie Jane’s), but all of the other fancy flavours are just too tempting to resist. And another thing I hoard? Cereal. We’re not even going to talk about how many boxes I have in my pantry right now. *cough*12*cough*
Hahaha! Oh yes, you HAVE to know I understand the cereal thing. A couple of months ago, I hit my record of like ten boxes at once…guess you’ve got me beat! Lol And actually, your almond butter collection is what inspired this post…and my “wall of nut butter” picture! 😉
Oh, and I can’t remember if I asked you already, but how is that coconut almond butter by Barney Butter?
The cinnayum is one of my favorites. I just wish I could do d them in my area. I hate paying shipping and that peanut butter is not cheap. Good but not cheap.
Oh wow, good to know! I found it on the clearance shelf at TJ Maxx for only $4.50! 😀
I used to be a nut butter hoarder too:) Then, binging became a HUGE problem and I can’t even look at them now without memories of lying on the floor in pain in the middle of the night after eating entire jars- true story (stories)- therefore, I still can’t manage to buy them to this DAY- although I will say, Artisana has these delightful little individual packs now, so there’s no portion issues for me. I keep them in my purse and often forget about them, but when a snack attack happens, they’re there to save me. Then, I can just eat one pack and I’m good:)
However, I AM a huge mustard hoarder, herbal tea hoarder, stevia hoarder, superfoods powder hoarder, and I hoard protein powders ( vegan) like they’re going out of style. I know, I’m strange and I’m good with that:)
Oh, and by the way- I’m addicted to everything figs, so I totally love all your fig “love” lately:)
Oh yeah, I have to say nut butter and I have had quite the love/hate relationship in the past…not too long ago, I swear the ONLY time I ever had any was when I was bingeing until I was pretty much to the point of being afraid of it…or sometimes looking at it like it was the enemy. It took me a while to see the thoughts behind my actions, but once I realized the source of my anxiety/trigger to my binges was a feeling of deprivation, I started seeing things differently. See, when I was counting calories, I would ALWAYS measure out my nut butter but I almost ALWAYS felt like I wanted more afterwards. So when I binged, it was just a way of rebelling against myself. Crazy how the mind works sometimes, isn’t it? It’s funny because I was JUST telling a friend the other day about this realization and how I think I just needed to find a way to enjoy it in a meal that was satisfying without feeling like I was missing something (hence the cereal being MIA…I love the combo and the crunch, but this way I can get more nut butter lovin’ without feeling like I’m eating a horse!).
Okay, can I come stay at your house and sample all your nut butters!?! I’m not nearly as much of a hoarder as you but I’ve got a little stash going on right now. Lately I’ve been making my own to add to my stash. Sunbutter, Roasted maple, vanilla almond butter, mixed nut butter, and cashew almond butter have been in the food processor lately. Oh and today was a vanilla cocoa almond butter. Yum!
See? That! I want to get back to making my own! I have a lot of ideas for flavor combos that I want to try out, but I just felt bad making more when I have so many already (#foodieproblems). That’s actually part of what motivated me to start digging into my “stash”…that and the fact that I can’t help but do a happy dance every time I have a near empty nut butter jar…my breakfasts are soon to become EIAJ (EVERYTHING in a jar!) Lol
How considerate of you to spread the nut butter loving around 😉 I swear over this past week figs have become the new thing of the week- I wonder what will be next!
Ovaltine used to be my favourite drink growing up- How was I not aware they had a spread made too!?
Well, you know…just doing my part! 😉
I’ve never tasted Ovaltine, but from what I hear the taste is a little different from the Ovomaltine spread. I actually got it from a foodie friend in Switzerland and basically have her to thank/curse for my addiction to it! Lol
So many great ideas 🙂 I visited America a couple of months ago and ended up bringing home 3 jars of nut butters (PB&Co White chocolate wonderful, Earth Balance coconut-peanut (which is incredible!!) and Trader Joes cookie butter). I also picked up loads of little sample packs of Justins nut butters. I’m so jealous of the variety you guys have! I’ve always wanted to try sunflower seed butter, I was thinking that I might just roast some sunflower seeds and put them in my blender.
Your photos all look so colourful and high quality – do you have any advice or tips for a beginner food-photographer? Any time I try to take photos they look so dull and boring – I just don’t seem to have your talent 🙁
Aww, thank you so much! I don’t really know much when it comes to photography…I’m really just a point and shooter, but I have learned a couple of things along the way starting with the little DIY gadget at the end of this post: http://www.kissmybroccoliblog.com/2013/09/12/the-secrets-out/. It’s called a light bounce. You set it up opposite of the window you’re shooting in front of and it helps to increase the light/decrease shadows around your subject. And it’s a cinch to make. Other than that, just try to shoot in natural light whenever you can, play around with all sorts of angles (what I like to call getting “snap happy” ;)) and see where it takes ya! I also you Pic Monkey for all my photo editing and absolutely love it!
And I would totally try making your own sunflower seed butter! I’ve made peanut and almond butter before and it’s so easy…honestly, sometimes I could kick myself for buying so much when I know I could just make it at home! BUT it’s on the agenda after I polish off a few more jars! 😉
I hoard nut butters, cereal and cheese as I buy them whenever they’re on sale? I’m like “half price?!? Must buy ALL THE THINGS” – and I’m someone who never buys things that aren’t on sale unless they’re fruit or veggies haha
Oh girl, you know how I am with a good sale! I swear I have to walk in the store with my hands cupped around my eyes sometimes just so I don’t see those magical orange and yellow tags! Lol
Haha I’m the same way with nut/seed butters! Despite my allergy to nuts, I still have 10 jars of nut/seed butter in my cupboard (and those are only the unique ones – I have like 6 jars of Barney Butter since I can only get it in the US haha). Though if truth be told, I could probably get by on just 3 jars, since I really only use soy nut butter, Barney Butter, and sunflower seed butter on a regular basis. 😛
I think soy nut butter is probably the only one I haven’t tried! And I just rediscovered my love for sunflower seed butter…just as I was finishing the last couple of spoonfuls! Darnit!
Soy nut butter claims to taste “just like peanut butter” but it totally doesn’t lol It tastes like soy nuts… Not my fave.
Haha I love your collection! And creative uses 🙂 We have less nut butter choices in the UK but I was presented with my first ever Peanut butter & co (cinnamon swirl!) this week from my stateside sis – I’m OBSESSED. It’s going on everything. As if I needed more inspiration of spreadable edibles… the figs are a done deal tonight.
“Spreadable edibles” <- Love it! And oh my gosh, that cinnamon swirl was one of the first non-traditional nut butters I ever tried! Just FYI, make sure you stir that thing like you mean business...when I got to the bottom of mine, it was FILLED with raisins! I was like, "OH!! THERE they are!" Haha!
Oh whaaat I was wondering where those raisin guys were hiding! Haha you’ve totally given the ending away 😉
OH MY GOSH I love it!!! I have such a stash too. I even have a stash of empty ones for making overnight oats!
I’ve put nut butter on almost anything except figs! Need to do that.
Your hoarding looks similar to mine. It gets it’s own shelf 😉
#noshame is right. Heck I think you should be proud of it. Especially with how well all of these turned out. Seriously your pictures, even of simple bowls of breakfast goodness, are always beautiful. Of course you included some of my favorites, namely fruit. I totally giggled at the fig hawk too, and I’m not a giggler.
your collection looks like mine. ironically, the only one of those i can eat right now is cookie butter, and that’s because there are no nuts in it.
Random question: do you heat up your nut butter before you put it on things? I ask because a lot of yours look thinner and whenever I add nut butter to things (like oatmeal) it’s really thick and clumpy.
I don’t usually since most of them (with the exception of coconut butter) tend to actually get thicker/dryer when I’ve tried heating them in the past. Most of the pics in this post though are with Earth Balance’s coconut peanut butter which is actually really runny (part of the reason why I love it so much) due to the coconut oil. I actually took a cue just last week and started adding a bit of melted coconut oil to some of my nut butters that were thicker…works like a charm! 😀
I have 3 brands of regular peanut butter, one natural peanut butter, natural almond butter, speculoos butter, homemade macadamia, homemade chocolate almond… yes, I make my own. On hand I have peanuts, almonds, macadamias, and pistachios… Most recently I have made chocolate peanut, maple cinnamon peanut, walnut, and “mystery” butter. I don’t eat bread or any grains so I mix it with jam, maple syrup, or honey, sometime coconut butter, and fresh fruit. Nut butter is the only thing I crave lol I’m so glad I’m not alone with these behaviours <3 🙂