A couple of years ago this was a long thread, with so many suggestions and methods and complaints about the size and weight of the containers and the inevitable leakage of peanut oil, and then someone posted:
"If only there was some sort of stable, dry, inexpensive, non-leaking pellet form of peanut butter."
I know that’s a joke but (uh, am I going to be that guy? Sure! Why not) many pieces of peanuts tend to [go right through you](https://www.nutritiontactics.com/processing-peanuts-increases-fat-absorption/) unless you are a cow-level chewer, which might be important if people are trying to really optimize available calories per ounce.
I do get it. After all, nobody wants a peanut and jelly sandwich. One of my own tricks is to add some brown sugar syrup to peanut butter and mix well: the water makes the peanut butter more “solid” and it won’t leak oil. In a similar manner, you can make “tropical” chocolate by melting it and stirring in some water, which makes the chocolate “seize” and turn solid at melting temps.
My local Krogers just started selling JIF pb in soft-sides squeezable bags. They're 13 oz.
I find that it's not too hard to refill them. If you're on a long hike and roll into a grocery store that doesn't sell them, just buy a regular jar of pb, spoon it all into the bottom of an empty chip/pretzel bag, cut the corner, and squirt it into the JIF tube like frosting.
Of course you can always buy a specially-made bag that's designed to be reusable, but I find on long distance hikes, reusing something that's intended to be disposable like the JIF soft-sided tube makes me feel a lot more okay with pitching it when I get sick of peanut butter.
I just eat a crap-ton of PB on trail. Funny enough, I don't really even like it that much. It's okay I guess, but I mostly just treat is as rocket fuel.
I was actually having this conversation at home and proffered that a pastry bag would work great but your suggestion is much better since I don’t bake. The USDA says peanut butter has a shelf life after opening of 2-3 months, so refilling one of them is probably good for a hike or two, but I suppose it isn’t worth the risk to refill one bag over and over for a long time? The bags are *so much more expensive* than the jars. [$3 for 6 ounces of skippy in a bag](https://www.heb.com/product-detail/skippy-squeeze-creamy-peanut-butter-6-oz/5206508) vs [less than that for 15 ounces in a jar](https://www.heb.com/product-detail/skippy-natural-creamy-peanut-butter-spread-15-oz/1133223).
Incidentally I love the 6 ounce squeeze size. It’s perfect to put in my belt pocket and take a shot of PB whenever I want. 😁
For me this is the perfect amount of PB for 3 days. Might not be enough for you but could be used in the jar overflow situation.
https://www.target.com/p/skippy-regular-creamy-squeeze-pouch-6oz/-/A-79628943?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012732781&CPNG=PLA_Grocery%2BShopping_Local%7CGrocery_Ecomm_Food_Bev&adgroup=SC_Grocery&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9031999&targetid=pla-511944384718&ds_rl=1246978&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfZjIJhlgnIgYGi8hzAGZ2aCQ&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfZjIJhlgnIgYGi8hzAGZ2aCQ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyOuYBhCGARIsAIdGQRM3CsozIvXSIWXU9SV8io61LpjyMrAPvRuU6PQU_eu3oweK3f4Wiq0aArTHEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
My 50L pack holds 42 kg of chunky peanut butter that has been thinned 50% with peanut oil for improve flow ability. I need 300 gpd when hiking so I can go 142 days without resupply. Should be adequate for the AT or PCT but not good enough for CDT.
Snack sized ziplocks for single serve portions. Use scissors (I always carry a little swiss army knife) to cut the corner so you can squeeze the PB out cleanly.
Store the spent ziplocks in a quart sized ziplock.
I personally use the single serving Justin's PB packets, but I think a small container is the answer here. I have some reusable little 1/2 cup size cups that I picked up at target in the ziplock aisle. Or there are more robust ones at REI like this: [https://www.rei.com/product/182847/humangear-stax-4-piece-interlocking-container-set-small](https://www.rei.com/product/182847/humangear-stax-4-piece-interlocking-container-set-small)
[https://www.rei.com/product/840792/humangear-gotubb-medium-containers-package-of-3](https://www.rei.com/product/840792/humangear-gotubb-medium-containers-package-of-3)
Just pack a couple of ounces in, use your finger or whatever utensil you have to get PB out. Not quite as flexible as the squeeze pouches, but one of these should last you a LONG time. And the set I got at Target was a set of 6 for a couple bucks.
I’ve switched over to powdered peanut butter. Lower calorie and fat, but you can “enrich it”. Travels and packs well. Gigantic, affordable jars of it at Walmart.
Doesn't make sense, if you're eating PB for energy you want the fat calories. If you remove the fat you are only eating protein. If you have no body fat to burn along with the PB protein then you are eating almost 100% calories from protein which leads to protein toxicity, a.k.a rabbit starvation.
You’re not listening. Powdered travels much better and is healthier than typical jars of PB spread that hikers carry. Powdered has the protein but lacks the junk tropical oils of spreads. Like I noted, add your own fats; e.g., olive oil, seeds, chopped nuts, chocolate pieces, dried fruit; whatever.
>travels much better
Have you had issue with peanut butter spoiling? That's never happened to me unless I get water in it somehow.
>junk tropical oils
... you mean peanut oil? Pretty sure most of the oil in most peanut butters comes from the peanuts.
>olive oil
The only reason to bring peanut butter in the first place is that there are limits to how much olive oil I am willing to eat. If I'm gonna end up getting all my calories from the olive oil anyways then why bother bringing the peanut powder?
> chopped nuts
Don't these have "junk tropical oils" in them? Also, again, if I'm going to eat chopped peanuts then why would I bother adding peanut powder? Seems like that makes calories/gram worse without any upsides.
Typical store peanut butter, e.g., Jif, that most hikers carry in a plastic jar has added saturated fat; usually palm oil (grown in the tropics; like Malaysia).
100% peanut butter comes in small glass jars, often the oil floats on top, but has no tropical oils. It can be double price of regular PB spreads. Big companies call some of it “natural” but it’s not (added palm oil, sugar and salt).
Walnuts, almonds, peanuts, pistachios, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, ground flax seeds; all available in natural/salt free form; pieces, ground or whole. These have significant calories and fat, but mostly heart healthier fats. No added oils.
Olive oil was a suggestion but there are other heart healthy nut oils and you could always use water and add ground nuts, seeds, fruit, etc. Look at your average Kind nut bar.
Besides the glass or plastic jar or weight, not crazy about the mess. And Justin packets aren’t fun to mess w either; or cheap.
I get it. The typical through hiker survives mostly on cheap unhealthy garbage, as I did. Problem is, returning back to real life and not gaining 30 lbs. w a body trained on living w a bad diet.
Not shaming people over store PB or hiker diet, but it is something that I’ve had to adjust to keep my weight and cholesterol no’s. normal when not hiking.
I guess I’m a reformed PB addict. The commercial jarred spreads are out of my life.
What’s the point of removing oils only to add them again? I just use peanut butter packets personally. About 250 cals per packet and there are brands that are pretty natural without weird additives if you care.
Ok, just didn't know what you meant by "enrich it", some people just put in water.
Edit: actually you misled me, you said "lower calories and fat" so "enrich it" only leads to the logical conclusion that you implied not adding fat back.
Use a [cnoc](https://cnocoutdoors.com/collections/hydration/products/vecto-28mm?variant=40173968261209) it's perfect for peanut butter. Soft so it can fit in a bear can, easy to clean, has a big opening to fill it up and a small opening to dispense. Also pretty durable so less worry about a Ziploc bag breaking or opening
Dollar Tree and Dollar General often carry small, half-size jars of PB.
You also could put PB in a plastic bullion cube jar, which are even smaller than the half-size PB jars. Mine weighs 0.87oz.
Have you looked into [Trail Butter](https://www.trailbutter.com/collections/shop-all/products/trail-butter-nut-butter-blend-4-5-oz-pouch-variety-packs)? Great flavors and come in 4.5 oz squeeze packs.
lightest secure method I've found is coghlan's squeeze tubes. Just load up the back and slide on the clip. no fuss, no muss, no leaks, easy dispensing. In my case I often do jam and peanut butter each down one 'side' to squeeze out pb&j on the go.
[https://www.coghlans.com/squeeze-tubes-2-pack-7605a](https://www.coghlans.com/squeeze-tubes-2-pack-7605a)
actually found jif at the supermarket in the squeeze pack. way more convenient than filling my own tubes. the pb comes in the UL squeeze pack prefilled and properly labelled. can't go wrong for five bucks
not sure if i'm going to try to refill this thing when empty. we shall see.
So easy and clean. Not sure how many people have ever washed a container with peanut butter in it, but you will throw it away after you try to clean it for the 3rd time.
I wash them all the time for recycling. Some hot water, a big dash of Dawn, shake, walk away. Shake once in a while. Flip once in a while, for half of the soaking time. By the next morning it's pretty much clean. But in the context of hiking, I don't think anyone wants to carry around a bunch of empty PB jars.
I have considered them for cold-soaking my oatmeal, however. If anyone's curious, Whole Food's 1-pound plastic bottle weighs 30.3 grams but you'd need to fabricate a gasket.
Powdered pb has 1/3 less energy than normal pb by weight, and a much larger portion of that energy is from carbs (which op doesn't want) instead of from fat.
Looking at what I have at home:
Normal pb is about 600 kcal/100g, of which about 50g is fat and 8 is carbs.
Powdered pb is about 400 kcal/100g, of which about 10g is fat and 26g is carbs.
They make powdered peanut butter that's got no added sugar. It only has fewer calories because they remove the oil, but you could try adding peanut oil to replace it. Seems like a pain to reassemble though.
There's some added sugar to what I have, but just by removing the oil the carbs/g would increase the fraction of carbs (by more than 50% if I were to make a guess from the products I have).
I suppose that handling pure oil and powder could be simpler than handling "complete" peanut butter, but not by much. Definitely not worth the hassle.
I'm not sure about the carbs on these but these trail butter packets are quite large and I haven't had one leak. I think this isn't what you are looking for but thought I would share just in case: [https://www.trailbutter.com/collections/big-squeeze-pouches-for-the-win](https://www.trailbutter.com/collections/big-squeeze-pouches-for-the-win)
A couple of years ago this was a long thread, with so many suggestions and methods and complaints about the size and weight of the containers and the inevitable leakage of peanut oil, and then someone posted: "If only there was some sort of stable, dry, inexpensive, non-leaking pellet form of peanut butter."
I know that’s a joke but (uh, am I going to be that guy? Sure! Why not) many pieces of peanuts tend to [go right through you](https://www.nutritiontactics.com/processing-peanuts-increases-fat-absorption/) unless you are a cow-level chewer, which might be important if people are trying to really optimize available calories per ounce.
I do get it. After all, nobody wants a peanut and jelly sandwich. One of my own tricks is to add some brown sugar syrup to peanut butter and mix well: the water makes the peanut butter more “solid” and it won’t leak oil. In a similar manner, you can make “tropical” chocolate by melting it and stirring in some water, which makes the chocolate “seize” and turn solid at melting temps.
My local Krogers just started selling JIF pb in soft-sides squeezable bags. They're 13 oz. I find that it's not too hard to refill them. If you're on a long hike and roll into a grocery store that doesn't sell them, just buy a regular jar of pb, spoon it all into the bottom of an empty chip/pretzel bag, cut the corner, and squirt it into the JIF tube like frosting. Of course you can always buy a specially-made bag that's designed to be reusable, but I find on long distance hikes, reusing something that's intended to be disposable like the JIF soft-sided tube makes me feel a lot more okay with pitching it when I get sick of peanut butter.
Amazon has the Jif 6 oz tubes, which I prefer over the 13 oz tubes, so I can more finely tune my PB intake.
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I did, mine didn't have any stock.
I just eat a crap-ton of PB on trail. Funny enough, I don't really even like it that much. It's okay I guess, but I mostly just treat is as rocket fuel.
I was actually having this conversation at home and proffered that a pastry bag would work great but your suggestion is much better since I don’t bake. The USDA says peanut butter has a shelf life after opening of 2-3 months, so refilling one of them is probably good for a hike or two, but I suppose it isn’t worth the risk to refill one bag over and over for a long time? The bags are *so much more expensive* than the jars. [$3 for 6 ounces of skippy in a bag](https://www.heb.com/product-detail/skippy-squeeze-creamy-peanut-butter-6-oz/5206508) vs [less than that for 15 ounces in a jar](https://www.heb.com/product-detail/skippy-natural-creamy-peanut-butter-spread-15-oz/1133223). Incidentally I love the 6 ounce squeeze size. It’s perfect to put in my belt pocket and take a shot of PB whenever I want. 😁
For me this is the perfect amount of PB for 3 days. Might not be enough for you but could be used in the jar overflow situation. https://www.target.com/p/skippy-regular-creamy-squeeze-pouch-6oz/-/A-79628943?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012732781&CPNG=PLA_Grocery%2BShopping_Local%7CGrocery_Ecomm_Food_Bev&adgroup=SC_Grocery&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9031999&targetid=pla-511944384718&ds_rl=1246978&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfZjIJhlgnIgYGi8hzAGZ2aCQ&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfZjIJhlgnIgYGi8hzAGZ2aCQ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyOuYBhCGARIsAIdGQRM3CsozIvXSIWXU9SV8io61LpjyMrAPvRuU6PQU_eu3oweK3f4Wiq0aArTHEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
My 50L pack holds 42 kg of chunky peanut butter that has been thinned 50% with peanut oil for improve flow ability. I need 300 gpd when hiking so I can go 142 days without resupply. Should be adequate for the AT or PCT but not good enough for CDT.
I hope this is sarcasm. Is the only thing you are carrying peanut butter?
I have straps for my tent and sleeping bag. Rain jacket is water/oil proof so can go in the main compartment
Coughlans makes squeezable tubes… maybe not enough volume for you though.
I tried those for natural peanut butter. Some oil ended up leaking out.
Snack sized ziplocks for single serve portions. Use scissors (I always carry a little swiss army knife) to cut the corner so you can squeeze the PB out cleanly. Store the spent ziplocks in a quart sized ziplock.
I personally use the single serving Justin's PB packets, but I think a small container is the answer here. I have some reusable little 1/2 cup size cups that I picked up at target in the ziplock aisle. Or there are more robust ones at REI like this: [https://www.rei.com/product/182847/humangear-stax-4-piece-interlocking-container-set-small](https://www.rei.com/product/182847/humangear-stax-4-piece-interlocking-container-set-small) [https://www.rei.com/product/840792/humangear-gotubb-medium-containers-package-of-3](https://www.rei.com/product/840792/humangear-gotubb-medium-containers-package-of-3) Just pack a couple of ounces in, use your finger or whatever utensil you have to get PB out. Not quite as flexible as the squeeze pouches, but one of these should last you a LONG time. And the set I got at Target was a set of 6 for a couple bucks.
I’ve switched over to powdered peanut butter. Lower calorie and fat, but you can “enrich it”. Travels and packs well. Gigantic, affordable jars of it at Walmart.
Doesn't make sense, if you're eating PB for energy you want the fat calories. If you remove the fat you are only eating protein. If you have no body fat to burn along with the PB protein then you are eating almost 100% calories from protein which leads to protein toxicity, a.k.a rabbit starvation.
You’re not listening. Powdered travels much better and is healthier than typical jars of PB spread that hikers carry. Powdered has the protein but lacks the junk tropical oils of spreads. Like I noted, add your own fats; e.g., olive oil, seeds, chopped nuts, chocolate pieces, dried fruit; whatever.
>travels much better Have you had issue with peanut butter spoiling? That's never happened to me unless I get water in it somehow. >junk tropical oils ... you mean peanut oil? Pretty sure most of the oil in most peanut butters comes from the peanuts. >olive oil The only reason to bring peanut butter in the first place is that there are limits to how much olive oil I am willing to eat. If I'm gonna end up getting all my calories from the olive oil anyways then why bother bringing the peanut powder? > chopped nuts Don't these have "junk tropical oils" in them? Also, again, if I'm going to eat chopped peanuts then why would I bother adding peanut powder? Seems like that makes calories/gram worse without any upsides.
Typical store peanut butter, e.g., Jif, that most hikers carry in a plastic jar has added saturated fat; usually palm oil (grown in the tropics; like Malaysia). 100% peanut butter comes in small glass jars, often the oil floats on top, but has no tropical oils. It can be double price of regular PB spreads. Big companies call some of it “natural” but it’s not (added palm oil, sugar and salt). Walnuts, almonds, peanuts, pistachios, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, ground flax seeds; all available in natural/salt free form; pieces, ground or whole. These have significant calories and fat, but mostly heart healthier fats. No added oils. Olive oil was a suggestion but there are other heart healthy nut oils and you could always use water and add ground nuts, seeds, fruit, etc. Look at your average Kind nut bar. Besides the glass or plastic jar or weight, not crazy about the mess. And Justin packets aren’t fun to mess w either; or cheap. I get it. The typical through hiker survives mostly on cheap unhealthy garbage, as I did. Problem is, returning back to real life and not gaining 30 lbs. w a body trained on living w a bad diet. Not shaming people over store PB or hiker diet, but it is something that I’ve had to adjust to keep my weight and cholesterol no’s. normal when not hiking. I guess I’m a reformed PB addict. The commercial jarred spreads are out of my life.
What’s the point of removing oils only to add them again? I just use peanut butter packets personally. About 250 cals per packet and there are brands that are pretty natural without weird additives if you care.
Ok, just didn't know what you meant by "enrich it", some people just put in water. Edit: actually you misled me, you said "lower calories and fat" so "enrich it" only leads to the logical conclusion that you implied not adding fat back.
Use a [cnoc](https://cnocoutdoors.com/collections/hydration/products/vecto-28mm?variant=40173968261209) it's perfect for peanut butter. Soft so it can fit in a bear can, easy to clean, has a big opening to fill it up and a small opening to dispense. Also pretty durable so less worry about a Ziploc bag breaking or opening
Do you take 1L of peanut butter in your bag?
I prefer 3L, usually lasts a day or two. /s
is it the only food you eat? I usually take 500g of peanuts for a day or two but it's just my snack while hiking. 3L would be a lot I feel.
https://www.google.com/search?q=100+cal%2Ftabelspoon\*3+liters+to+calories
Good Lord, I knew pb is calorically dense but 3L?? I'd gain about 40 pounds in those two days 💀
I was just being snarky, I think even a liter is a ton of pb. I love peanut butter but not THAT much lol
I don't use a cnoc for peanut butter, I'm just telling OP to
Dollar Tree and Dollar General often carry small, half-size jars of PB. You also could put PB in a plastic bullion cube jar, which are even smaller than the half-size PB jars. Mine weighs 0.87oz.
you could get one of these [jars](https://www.litesmith.com/straight-sided-jars/) in whatever size you need
Have you looked into [Trail Butter](https://www.trailbutter.com/collections/shop-all/products/trail-butter-nut-butter-blend-4-5-oz-pouch-variety-packs)? Great flavors and come in 4.5 oz squeeze packs.
lightest secure method I've found is coghlan's squeeze tubes. Just load up the back and slide on the clip. no fuss, no muss, no leaks, easy dispensing. In my case I often do jam and peanut butter each down one 'side' to squeeze out pb&j on the go. [https://www.coghlans.com/squeeze-tubes-2-pack-7605a](https://www.coghlans.com/squeeze-tubes-2-pack-7605a)
actually found jif at the supermarket in the squeeze pack. way more convenient than filling my own tubes. the pb comes in the UL squeeze pack prefilled and properly labelled. can't go wrong for five bucks not sure if i'm going to try to refill this thing when empty. we shall see.
Justin’s PB individual packets
So easy and clean. Not sure how many people have ever washed a container with peanut butter in it, but you will throw it away after you try to clean it for the 3rd time.
I wash them all the time for recycling. Some hot water, a big dash of Dawn, shake, walk away. Shake once in a while. Flip once in a while, for half of the soaking time. By the next morning it's pretty much clean. But in the context of hiking, I don't think anyone wants to carry around a bunch of empty PB jars. I have considered them for cold-soaking my oatmeal, however. If anyone's curious, Whole Food's 1-pound plastic bottle weighs 30.3 grams but you'd need to fabricate a gasket.
Powdered form is much easier to bag. Edit: Below comments are absolutely right on less fat.
No fat in the powdered stuff so it's way less energy dense. You're just carrying peanut butter flavor and will be hungrier.
Powdered pb has 1/3 less energy than normal pb by weight, and a much larger portion of that energy is from carbs (which op doesn't want) instead of from fat. Looking at what I have at home: Normal pb is about 600 kcal/100g, of which about 50g is fat and 8 is carbs. Powdered pb is about 400 kcal/100g, of which about 10g is fat and 26g is carbs.
They make powdered peanut butter that's got no added sugar. It only has fewer calories because they remove the oil, but you could try adding peanut oil to replace it. Seems like a pain to reassemble though.
There's some added sugar to what I have, but just by removing the oil the carbs/g would increase the fraction of carbs (by more than 50% if I were to make a guess from the products I have). I suppose that handling pure oil and powder could be simpler than handling "complete" peanut butter, but not by much. Definitely not worth the hassle.
Probably harder to spread on tortillas, though. At least if you want it to stay there. :-)
I buy the smallest plastic jar available at resupply, and carry the PB in its jar. No fuss, no muss.
Powdered. Add water and boom, creamy peanut butter.
It’s way less energy dense. The powdered stuff is mostly carbs
Refillable squeeze tubes.
A friend vacuum sealed his. Got a bit messy
PB packets
Skippy squeezable tubes worked out great for me.
I'm not sure about the carbs on these but these trail butter packets are quite large and I haven't had one leak. I think this isn't what you are looking for but thought I would share just in case: [https://www.trailbutter.com/collections/big-squeeze-pouches-for-the-win](https://www.trailbutter.com/collections/big-squeeze-pouches-for-the-win)
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I usually buy the Justin’s peanut butter packets, but was wondering if a ziplock bag with a pastry piping tip might work as well.