Is Peanut Butter a Viable Bodybuilding Food?

[TC_Luoma]

Sure. You can do pretty much the same thing if you take a tablespoon of olive oil.

[LanceQS]

When I was 15, I would make peanut butter and bread after a workout. I didn’t have that many other choices of protein, and we always have peanut butter in the closet. I gained around 5 pounds of muscle each month while eating it right before bed.

[Brant_Drake]

I just wanted to say that the Edgar Allen Poe line you snuck in there made my morning.

[rodhotter]

been eating organic santa cruz dark roasted for “breakfast” a black coffee with MCT oil + cacao, + a tsp ea of various protein powders that along with 2 lower carb meals + nothing between dropped my rising BP with better other health markers. 75 YO + pretty active with some light dumbells + daily dog walk, just looking to be functional as i age

[KinPer]

@LanceQS

When I was 15, I would make peanut butter and bread after a workout. I didn’t have that many other choices of protein, and we always have peanut butter in the closet. I gained around 5 pounds of muscle each month while eating it right before bed.

Before bed? You have probably gained fat mass along with muscle mass. It is a very calorie-dense food, so it is better to eat it in the morning so that the calories are consumed during the day.

[KinPer]

@T3hPwnisher

@Wavy

Skippy and Jif and their compatriots are peanut-flavored icing sugar.

I always call this “peanut frosting” in my house. Having that paradigm is helpful.

I was a HUGE nut-butter addict. I mean, I guess I technically still am. A junkie is always a junkie, and if you told me I could eat a jar of the stuff unrestricted, I absolutely would. Sunflower butter is honestly my REAL jam, but same premise. There’s something to be said about the fact that even IF these foods are “natural”, the sheer VOLUME of them absolutely isn’t. A man in nature trying to gather almonds, peanuts, cashews, sunflower seeds, etc is just going to get a handful of them. To get enough to make a butter would take like 16 hours of work, at which point, yeah: eat the whole jar: you worked for 16 hours to get it! And this stuff is a fantastic rocket fuel in that regard. I’ve run endurance events off of it before with no carbs. But that’s something we have to keep in mind: WHAT are we fueling for? Because, ultimately, food is fuel.

…or just yummy.

A whole jar? Your body can probably digest that much. I can only eat three spoonfuls. If I eat more than that, I get a rash on my skin.

[T3hPwnisher]

I am sorry to hear about your condition my dude!

[LanceQS]

I’m pretty sure that when you sleep is when you heal and gain muscle, so I guess eating before bed is a good thing to be doing

[rsprogis1]

I don’t really count this as a bodybuilding food and am not using it as a stapl of my diet.
I do at panut butter, but I try to use it as a btter alternative or substitue to other foods when I want something sweet to snack on.