Read. The. Labels.

Friday night and you know what that means for a wild, crazy, fun girl like me, right?

Yup. Friday night fish fry with my mother and a trip to the grocery store!

Wooo hooo! Did you hear Bret Michaels and the Rock of Love bus just screech to a halt, turn around and peel out on its way back to my house?

In the ongoing saga of peanut butter with no hydogenated oil, I stopped in front of the Pick n' Save PB&J section for a little investigation. The hubs hunkered down, knowing we might be there a while.

I found a few new things, among them these:


See how that second jar proclaims "1/3 Less Sodium and Sugar"? Sounds good, right?

Both were all natural. Both had short ingredients lists and neither contained hydrogenated oils. Both contained 17 grams of fat per serving.

The difference?

The lower sodium/less sugar peanut butter had 210 calories while the "regular" stuff had only 180. The lower sodium/less sugar version did have 75 grams of sodium vs. the 125 grams in the other stuff, but the difference between the two in your daily allowance of sodium is equal to only 2% ... so that's not a swaying factor for me. Both had 6 grams total carbs.

Just because it says it's better for you doesn't mean it really is. At best, these two are a push.

Read. The. Labels.