They go cold first because people love to diss any post. There are some very sad low life's out there that just have to hate everything just because they can

Not sure why cold, Hot hot hot for me love this stuff and its normally well over £2 unless Ive missed something.............thank you

There are all manner of reasons why people who like meridians peanut butter don't touch the typical supermarket sugary, salty, palm oil filled stuff. It's not a like for like comparison.

Meridian is a health food, supermarket stuff needlessly adds junk

Meridian's also ethically-sourced, which is important to many of us too (albeit not so much those on HUKD...)

​Great ideas, gonna try with porridge tomorrow morning thanks.

For me I need at least a bit of salt in it, its a completely different product when 100% pure. Some of the add peanut oil which helps it be spreadable, this stuff can be gloopy.

Good advice and very true. Celery :confused: no it tastes nasty... :laughing:

Persist with it, taste buds are incredibly adaptive you're just used to the sugar and salt in other products, after a while of having this you'll get used to it and eventually the other products will taste bad.

My favourite way is mixing it in with porridge. It also actually goes well on celery.

simpleton being the keyword

I have to admit I love salt so very often I sprinkle some on my food but it's a lot less than I would be consuming otherwise... :laughing:

Lovely stuff. It separates because it hasn't got any crap in it to hold the oil in, so it needs stirring once or twice. Doesn't bother me because I know I'm not eating rubbish. Thanks. Bought one of each today - crunchy and smooth.

You could try adding a little salt to it and stirring it in - it might be more what you're used to then. Personally I love it as it as because it's just peanuts with no added manky oils.

thanks! :smiley:

It's all gone pear shaped lol. Can't we all get along?

If you say so and yet like a simpleton you continue to entertain me... :laughing:

And so after ten pages, the mask has finally slipped.

i think you have just TROLLED

Sunpat is awful. But you could try making satay sauce with it. With noodles and stir fry veg.

I decided to try this out today (after hearing great things on here, and the good price), and I'm not too sure :disappointed:. Ithink because I've always has sunpat this just taste so strange . Don't dislike it but it's not what I'm used too. Is it worth persisting with it? Any suggestions as to ways to eat other than on bread?

Thanks OP this is a great deal. Super quality product with no palm oil, no added salt or sugar.

I won't buy any other brand (nor own-brand) and always buy 3 months' supply when it's on offer. Added to a smoothie with coconut or almond milk, Total 0% fat greek yogurt, oats, banana, linseeds and sometimes other fruit, it's my favourite breakfast.

And your lack of intelligence is clearly affecting your level of thinking... :wink:

The lady doth protest* far too much, methinks :smiley:

(*as well as artificially pad out threads so that they're stickier than a mouthful of delicious peanut butter!)

Amazon drop their six pack price today.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0069RWP8I (Crunchy)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006DI9748 (Smooth)

£5.94 for six.
S&S (5%) £5.64 (each £0.94)
S&S (15%) £5.05 (each £0.84)

I love this with strawberry jam on toast. :smiley:

yes if only...

I'm very calm thank you and not being sensitive. Like I said I'm all about the facts. I very much doubt that people read all the comments made on a post. If you do you've clearly got more time on your hands compared to most. As mentioned before heat is generated purely by the other members, it's got nothing to do with an OP. But you're clearly failing to understand this very simple point.

Cutesy comments sucking up to the HUKD community, lol you're taking this far too seriously. I do not require an apology from you as you are entitled to your opinion and how much heat a post generates really makes no difference... :laughing:

Calm down dear, it's a deal thread, not World War III. Why so sensitive about this if there isn't any truth in it?

Needless to say, you already know I haven't sat there counting and nor am I prepared to do so. But your repeated "You're welcome [insert poster name here]" posts when you could have just liked their comments if you genuinely wanted to show your appreciation has, clearly, significantly expanded the comments pages. That gives people more to have to read through and I am in very little doubt now it's helped get you extra heat on the deal despite your supposed research. Aside from the repeated You're Welcomes, there's lots of cutesy comments which appear to be sucking up to the HUKD community too. So if anyone from the site can confirm that many additional comments do not in any way help attract heat on the deal, I'll happily apologise to you.

Because otherwise, if this is something that encourages more people on HUKD to do exactly the same as you have then the site will become less efficient, reliable and not be the better for it.

a lot of angry meat eaters on here, perhaps they should switch to peanut butter

First of all what koppyking was suggesting could happen when a comment is made isn't entirely true as I checked the discussed tab when I posted a comment and it did not push this post to the top! With regards to generating heat that is the choice of every member as there is no compulsion to give heat, infact lots of members vote cold.

Secondly I have no intention of gaming the system as you put it as that is pathetic. It's about time that you realised your error and added the word 'seemingly' as I'm all about the facts as opposed to sweeping false statements!

As this has clearly bothered you so much maybe you can share with everyone how many times I've actually replied with apparently the same comment as I'm pretty sure you may have sat there and counted them all... :laughing:

If i could give heat many times over I would because this deal (like the peanut butter) is amazing thanks OP

Angry ? Why on Earth do you think I care that much ? I'm answering you in the same manner.
But yes. Its going nowhere and not worthy of future comment. I agree

I literally have no idea or interest in to know what you're talking about or why you appear to be angry. Find someone else to argue with, you won't get me to respond in kind to you. Good day.

Well, thats you satisfied then. Problem is, it isn't answering the whole point you started lecturing me over. "Replies" isn't "cold votes"
Try again.

Er, except this:

"The replies push it to the top of 'discussed' each time.This is where some people,me included,look first.It catches people's eye then generates heat for the OP."

..thus helping to get you over 1000+ heat for jars of peanut butter. It's hardly going to keep me awake at night, but at least be up front about it. It's gaming the system. HUKD most certainly wouldn't be a better place if every other deal poster felt it necessary to personally reply to seemingly every single comment that was left.

CBA reading comments but after popping tesco I scanned the Almond Butter one, it came up as £3, and the Cashew Butter £2..

love this and this month its in my running magazine as one of the best thing you can have as they don't add palm oil or sugar have some :smiley:

I got the crunchy (prefer Whole Earth) but this is ok because of the lack of crap palm oil.

HOWEVER, WATCH OUT WHEN OPENING, I had the jar very slightly, but only a tad, tilted. Oily mess went EVERYWHERE! Jeez, what a f...... mess! Should have a bloody warning on the jar!

Does this have sugar? I bought a 1kg tub (sugar free) from a supplement site.

Perfect, thanks OP! Will stock up when I'm next in Tesco, that's if they have any left.

There's nothing to gain from posting deals on this platform for any OP besides sharing it with other members... :laughing:

Homemade peanut butter is amazing, cannot recommend it enough.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/homemade-peanut-butter-recipe.html

With that level of self-righteous smugness, you just HAVE to "work" at a council ! :laughing:

Would you mind me asking how you have such insight into individuals' voting behaviour?

It is a great deal
As for the comments. The dumbos will vote cold not because they have a clue about the deal, but because they're led by other clowns more often than not. Some are so monumentally peabrained if the deal was free £50 notes they'd vote cold if it was seen as the "cool" thing to do, or they had lost out in an argument with the OP (seriously)

You raise a good point. I guess some people will justify anything on the basis of "moderation". All things in moderation, even moderation perhaps might help? I think if you're generally healthy i.e. eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly, not overweight etc, then eating or drinking something that is "bad" for you on occasion isn't an issue. If you don't do these things, you have bigger issues to worry about than deciding wether or not having a chocolate bar is moderation. If you're obese for example, chances are your idea of moderation isn't working.

The alternative is to lead a life of analysis and, to me, a certain mediocrity. As the Chief Medical Officer so eloquently put it, "Do I want my glass of wine or do I want to raise my risk of breast cancer?" Imagine that line of thinking for everything. "Do I want this fillet steak or do I want to increase my risk of bowel cancer?" I think moderation should be based on common sense, the dose makes the poison after all. The issue is most people lack common sense. :smiley:

Thanks for that. I was fairly certain there was something in it for the OP (knowingly or otherwise), but couldn't be sure.

It wasn't the health benefits I was thinking of - it was more the fact that I assumed (mostly from a couple of previous comments) the smooth would have more texture and be less "smooth" than smooth peanut butter that wasn't 100% nuts? Which made me wonder if the crunchy might be too much "nut" and not enough "butter" and I'd be better going for smooth. If any of that makes any sense!

I'm not saying actual moderation isn't a good thing, it's the concept of moderation that's a bad thing. People dismiss health concerns because 'it's ok in moderation'. Yeah that one pizza isn't going to take an appreciable amount of time off your life. But how often is ok? How bigs the pizza? These are things people no longer concern themselves over because 'oh I'm practising moderation'. I mean, are you? Really? How do you quantify moderation?

On the salt issue . A close friend is senior cardiologist . With all the evidence available he swears that if his patients where more careful with added salt in products then heart disease would drop massively . The problem is Salt - simple . We need some salt but not much . "Don't want to die from heart disease well improve your chances by cutting out adde salt"

But to me a moderate amount of things is fine. The limit for sat fat in men is 30g. If you go to a restaurant and eat a pizza or something, chances are you will breach your daily limits but this shouldn't be a problem. The daily limit for men is a few units, but a couple of pints on a Friday shouldn't be an issue. This is because you could go out maybe a couple of times a month or once a week i.e. you don't regularly go over the limits. Moderation is sticking to guidelines but not feeling guilty when you indulge in your favorite foods once in a while.

As I say the article you read was based on comments from one public health lobby group. There is no evidence, that I'm aware of, to indicate that 6g was just to appease "Big Food" as it were.

I think dietary guidelines have been fairly decent, some things have changed but the basics are still there. As we get new data, things may flip flop, but that is science.

Your personal limit is understandable and fair enough, I'd probably do the same in your situation.


I disagree, sugar is sugar regardless of source, white sugar is still sucrose. This study, partially funded by the honey industry, found no difference between honey, cane sugar and the infamous HFCS i.e. all simple sugars affect you the same way. Honey has trace minerals yes but there are far better sources of them from regular foods like fruit and veg, you'd need a lot of honey to get the same benefit.

Of course, nutrition is a complex subject. In 5 years time I could be gladly eating my sweet and salted hat. :smiley:

With simple sugars (glucose/fructose/sucrose) yes and no. Ultimately your body uses glucose for it's energy so a calorie of sugar is pretty much a calorie of sugar be it white refined sucrose or honey. But a tea spoon of white sugar causes more of a surge of blood glucose levels than a tea spoon of honey and with the other nutrients in honey, I know what I'd sooner put in my porridge in the morning.

With more complex carbohydrates though there can be a big difference in how your body processes them. White bread vs oats for instance, looking at the nutrition label on them doesn't seem a whole lot different, but those refined carbs in the bread will hit your blood stream a lot sooner than the oats do.

Honestly, I don't know. In fact when it comes to nutrition the fact is we have very little consensus on what's best. It's all opinions, studies full of bad scientific methodology to push whatever agenda the funding body had and superstition. Worse of all I think is the concept of 'moderation'. That's a beautiful word that takes away all accountability or concern because there's nothing wrong as long as it's in moderation apparently.

4g, 6g of salt? Who knows. The fact most people are probably getting 8-10g which is where the problems are arising the only real consensus is people need less. When I read reasoning like 6g being suggested because that's acceptible to the food industry, I side with a little lower.

But honestly given the amount of flip flopping nutritional recommendations go through you can't take anything as concrete.

If you're comfortable with 6g of salt, and you don't exhibit any heart or blood pressure problems great. But I'm prone to high blood pressure, so I aim low for salt intake.

Good advice just one small niggle, sorry. There are no differences between refined sugars and natural sugars. Sugar is sugar and your body treats it the same regardless of source. Of course we shouldn't have too much regardless but some people might think that if they limit "bad sugar" from cakes, soda etc, they can use lots of something like honey for example in everything to make up for it.

Sorry but I don't trust a public health lobby group. Also, the study suggested 5g but current consensus is still at 6g. The head of CASH just wants 4g just because. :smile: In fact on CASH's website even they admit:


The head of CASH is also the head of Action on Sugar who recently called for a sugar tax on all fizzy drinks - including drinks with no sugar or calories in. :wink: Lobby groups like these repeat calls for less salt, less saturated fat and less sugar in everything even after voluntary reductions in amounts made between the government and industry. It seems to me that these "charities" tend to receive taxpayers' money in the form of grants and end up using it to lobby the government.

6g is the upper limit, not a target and we are always encouraged to limit salt consumption. Some foods are naturally high in salt too like fish and cheese. Is there any evidence that says a maximum of 4g per day is significantly more beneficial than 6g?

Sorry that there's so many typos in above comments , phone auto correcting big fingers !! Advice not advise!!!! Etc etc

thanks going to stock up on al varieties . They don't seem to go off in cupboard in warm kitchen even when opened. Seeing as it's just nuts wondering what natural preservative quality of nuts are. We've dealt with anaphylaxis from peanuts (and other allergies) in our household and now child actively has to have regular exposure to peanuts to prevent immunoglobulin increase. Interesting to note that in Egypt many children weaned on pure peanut mush and lower national peanut allergy there. I'm not advocating parents do this with this product - allergy can kill so follow the experts advise , but if you need a pure peanut product in the house and kids don't like eating peanuts whole then this a good product to use .

Ha... :wink:

IF you look properly BarryRiley you will hopefully see that I haven't replied " You're Welcome" to 'EVERY SINGLE' post! :man:

You're Welcome.

:stuck_out_tongue:

I did not know that as I never click on the discussed tab. Good to know thanks koppyking... :laughing:

You have a common Western misunderstanding about fats perpetuated by government health campaigns.

Natural fat isn't bad.

You know you don't have to say "You're Welcome" to EVERY SINGLE post, right? It's just clogging up the board

well said... a lot of people need educating on here

The replies push it to the top of 'discussed' each time.This is where some people,me included,look first.It catches people's eye then generates heat for the OP :wink:
I guess,anyway :man:

Ooh fab - love peanut butter and have been meaning to get some in, perfect time! Thoughts on Smooth v Crunchy with the Meridian brand? Not sure which to go for as it's 100% nuts - usually I'd probably prefer crunchy but I'm thinking smooth might be better in this instance? Ta :smiley:

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

You absolutely can call it a health food. You're body is designed to process sugar, fat and protein for energy. As long as it's a fat or sugar that appears in nature your body knows what to do with it. Trans fats / hydrogenated fats and refined sugars are what your body finds toxic.

Fats, even saturated fats are actually good for your body in the right amounts provided they are from a natural source that our biology has evolved to know what to do with. People being scared by fat on the nutrition label into eating stuff full of added sugar, or sweeteners so foreign your body doesn't know what to do with them are so much worse for you than natural sourced fats.

Eggs, nuts, fish, olives, avocado, coconut are all full of fats that your body will thank you for consuming. Just stick to around 20-30% of your daily calories from fat, and ~20g saturated for women, ~30g saturated for men.

Hot for price. I tried that one before and it was horrible.

Yes because fat is not your enemy. Sugar and salt is.

Different reports give different figures. Food Standards Agency say 6g because they are under pressure from the food industry so picked something they would 'accept'.

Studies that prioritise your health above the food industries political pressure though suggest less than 4g.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8376701.stm

I agree the fat content is high but they are naturally occurring fats as opposed to added fats, so everything in moderation is all good... :laughing:

Great to see such a natural product free from additives :smiley:

I don't get the hype around this bring 100% peanuts, if that is your number one objective just eat actual peanuts, surely?

can you really call something with a 46% fat content a health food though? I know its healthier than other peanut butters but still.

​Wish my wife had your persistence....... :smile:

Not sure why cold, Hot hot hot for me love this stuff and its normally well over £2 unless Ive missed something.............thank you

100% peanuts in meridian there is no palm oil or extra rubbish such as salt or sugar. Salt is major cause in heart disease and sugar diabetes. Best on market . Has anyone noticed if Meridian almond butter on same offer please?

Some folk can't help but be polite. Plus who reads all the comments? :laughing:

:laughing:

Well intentioned as it is, it does somewhat make up a huge bulk of the comments. I'm sure everyone gets the idea by now!

No the comments have no such bearing and you're welcome schnide... :wink:

Ha love the sarcasm... :laughing:

Thanks this is great product.

More MSG over salt! I'd rather have neither... :laughing:

Not sure if anyone's mentioned it already I haven't read everything but if your tesco has a nutriti centre by the pharmacy (usually) they've got the 1kg tubs for £3.50 I think I paid.... Nearly always on offer at that price as well.
That's for smooth and crunchy not any of the other nut butters.

bought 1 tub of smooth and 1 tub of crunchy last ni. cheers OP - have some heat!

Always wanted to try this! :smiley:

It is 6g (around 1 teaspoon)... :laughing:

Sun-Pat is delicious, IMO. It contains 1% salt and 1.3% added sugar. You'd have to be consuming jars of the stuff for that to be an issue.

I might give this brand a try. Thanks for posting OP. :smiley:

Great price, although tastes disgusting.

Do comments on deals push the deals up the list in any way?

All the repeated "You're welcomes" won't have hurt if that's the case. Although it is, undoubtedly, a great deal in itself.

It's a shame more producers don't use MSG instead of salt - it's far less bad for you. But of course it's got a scary-sounding name so people get worried about it.

very good deal

Eww.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooo!!, thanx. :-)

It's still 6g per day as far as I was aware?

Meridian have just released a peanut and coconut butter.

For me it's this one or Whole Earth. Thanks!

deal of the day peanut butter fml g'night

Yes these are quite good, would be even better if they had a darker roast on the nuts prior to milling...

Careful there are 2 types, smooth and crunchy. Made the mistake of buying crunchy and had to chuck it. The magpies ate it !

You're welcome scaa17... :laughing:

Ha good description... :laughing:

Helps a million. I buy 2 every week, normally £1.99 each. Thank youuu

Never tried it only buy whole earth which is never ever on offer

yes I love this stuff time to stock up :smiley: thanks op

I agree i love peanut butter but ill eat rat before i eat cheap PB which taste like off peanuts n grease from a car workshop

My dogs love this. It doesn't have Xylitol in it, or palm oils. Some argue that dogs shouldn't have peanuts full stop, but I reckon once in a while is fine. I freeze it in their kongs and it's like an ice cream for them.

Cheers OP.

Great price, I normally get the 1kg tubs from Holland and Barrett for £5.99 so will buy a few of these.

Out of interest, are these on-par with that of Sunpat Peanut Butter?, or ..... thanx. :-)

Your deal does trump for availability!

You'd have to be nuts to miss this one :wink:

Available for £2.74 for 1kg in Dudley!

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/meridian-peanut-butter-1kg-2-74-tesco-dudley-extra-2386053

2 heaped tablespoons of meridian peanut butter
1/2 tablespoon of organic coconut oil
1 teaspoon of cacao powder
1 ~handful of mixed nuts (or any)
1 banana / however much oats you usually have
1 squeeze of honey
~300-400 mL of milk, or as much as you want

That gets me through 4-6 hours without really feeling hungry. Good fats and protein to keep your stomach full, and a source of carbs to help you concentrate. I do wonder though, if blending the banana/oats ruins its slow release. That's why sometimes I just eat part of the banana and put the rest in the blender (eg. 1/3 or a half).

Really good price, thanks

there's also this amazon deal thats organic for anyone that would like that instead. I prefer to have anything that comes out of the ground organic if possible. http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/meridian-organic-crunchy-peanut-butter-1-kg-4-49-add-item-amazon-2386551

Cashew Nut butter is lovely and we use it in cooking curries all the time... :laughing:

Hot hot heat.

Chicken satay for dinner, it seems!

Completely agree... :laughing:

you can get 340g peanut butter from asda for £1.20 but its only 94% peanut butter, and added fat, but it makes it smoother and works out 60 grams more for 25 pence? Idk, actually I think it works out almost exactly the same price per 100g, however this is a special and won't be long term , whereas the asda will be long term price

No palm oil this is really nice PB and good for you

Thanks for sharing your recipe and ideas BigYoSpeck that's awesome... :laughing:

Isn't peanut butter even more marmite than marmite though?
So for those that hate it, the temptation of down-voting it, despite the fact it's a great price, gets the better of them.

Meridian's also ethically-sourced, which is important to many of us too (albeit not so much those on HUKD...)

Any. Helps bulk them with calories and protein for a post workout.

I usually chuck 25g of peanut butter and 25g of oats in my smoothies which gives them an extra 10g of protein and 240 calories. Having both peanut butter and oats means you've got all 9 essential amino acids (I have yoghurt in it as well though so they'd still all be covered but it's always good to mix protein sources if something isn't a complete source).

My typical recipe is 2x 80g portions of frozen fruit (varies but I tend to use blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, banana, mango) 25g linseeds, 25g oats, 25g peanut butter, 100g greek yoghurt, 15g honey and topped up to the fill line with water or milk on my nutri ninja.

The only people who would call this bland are those who have destroyed their taste buds through eating tons of salt and sugar.

This stuff is heaven, I don't even go near the 'whole earth' brand now.

A regular ingredient in my porridge and smoothies, some people call it bland but I'm happy avoiding sugar, salt or MSG.

Great price and use as back up when out of Whole Earth. It can be a little too greasy for me at times but then again WE can be as tough as spreading glue... Cheers OP

This PB is absolute lush. Thanks again Kikai for another great deal :innocent:

HOT, I bought it before for 2.34 and I thought it's cheap! This is real penaut butter, not pseudo butter like Nutella...

But you need to know it's hard to eat it with spoon, it's completly different then I thought it will be. I like to eat it as pancake mixed with dry cottage cheese.

Anyone has good ideas how to eat this? How to use this quick and easy?

Thanks for the link... :laughing:

Damnit, I'm addicted to this stuff. Unfortunately I live in Ireland and the deals don't travel. The peanut butter with coconut is also good ****.

For anyone looking for a clean, natural peanut butter with no added ANYTHING. This is it. There's no palm oil, hence the separation of the natural oils when left at room temperature. There's no salt, which is ideal, as you can add your own to taste.

love this stuff

Paid 30p more for sunpat but atleast it doesnt need stirring everytime...

£3.57/kg at this price - very well priced versus the larger 1kg tubs that sometimes come up at good price with discounts etc from the likes of Holland & Barrett. Will stock up when passing!

Yes that was on offer too

Good deal!

If you like PB check out this -
http://www.myprotein.com/sports-nutrition/peanut-butter/10530743.html?utm_source=googleprod&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=gp_sports&affil=thggpsad&switchcurrency=GBP&shippingcountry=GB&gclid=CP7P-a_V28oCFQoCwwod9gILeg&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CLfYkbDV28oCFVM8GwodJ-cKPQ&variation=10530745

It's 100% Peanuts, nothing added, no salt or sugar

This is very nice and great for under a pound. Thanks Kikai!

This deal is of great use to me thank KiKai! Time to stock up again :smiley:

Indeed, the ease of it is the only reason I recommended it :smiley:

Thanks. Love this stuff and its the cheapest I've ever seen it. Time to stock up!

Thanks. Nice peanut butter, less salty though grittier ( I prefer the grittier texture anyway) than sunpat

Good Spot Thanks For Posting Heat :smiley:

Very true!! Some people prob don't even look at the deal.