Homemade Nut Butter

I've been craving fats. 

 

I've been limiting myself to fats for so long I guess it's catching up with me.  I went home for lunch today and thought about a peanut butter sandwich, but wasn't really in the mood for just peanut butter.  The peanut butter is peanutty enough, but it's dry and tastes only like peanuts.  Duh.

 

I decided I would make my own nut butter.  I always have plenty of raw almonds on hand, so I threw in three handfuls of almonds into the Magic Bullet.  Then I added two medjool dates and a couple of tbsp of coconut oil and another tbsp of toasted almond oil.  Blended that up for a few minutes and tasted it.  Wasn't quite what my tastebuds wanted, so I added a few more dates and about a tbsp of shredded coconut.  Blend blend blend and then another taste.  Oh-my-freakin-god, it's so GOOD!  I wanted to just eat it by the spoonful, but that wouldn't be very smart, now would it? 

 

So, I put my concoction, about a cup's worth, into a tupperware container.  I got out one of those multigrain sandwich rolls, you know those ultra thin ones?  I spread a few tbsp of my almond/coconut/date butter on it.  I enjoyed every single morsel.  I used a web-based recipe builder and calculated the nutrition for this.  It comes out to about 5 grams of sat fat and 1.1 gm of protein per tbsp.  This won't be an everyday food, so I can afford to eat it when the cravings start.

 

I'm waiting now to see if I'm going to have a reaction.  You know, the dumping kind.  I'm trying to figure out what makes me feel so sleepy and dump so hard.  See last few posts.  It's trial and error with the diet trying to figure out what makes me feel good or bad. 

 

On another note, it's trash day and I forgot to weigh.  Tomorrow it is, then.