This week's favorite product

I love sunflower seeds, lets say sprinkled on my salad, or baked into or on top of whole grain bakery bread. Honestly, I never gave them much thought outside of that. Since starting this blog, grocery shopping has been a real eye opener. I never paid much attention to foods marketed to be "allergy-friendly" because it has never been anything I needed to worry about. 

A typical breakfast for me has always been peanut butter and toast. For whatever reason, I have been on a ~6 month hiatus from my breakfast staple. This weekend at the grocery store, I went to the peanut butter isle to re-instate my favorite go-to breakfast. I usually glance over the alternative "peanut" butter spreads, but this time I took a closer look. I noticed something called Sunbutter, a spread made of sunflower seeds. Peanut free, tree nut free, and gluten free - what an idea! To my surprise it actually tastes really good, and I can say this is a nice alternative to peanut butter. Now I just have to try it in a cookie recipe.

I fully understand that I am likely behind the times on this discovery, so I apologize for those of you thinking..."jeez, this is an old trick" however still very exciting to me:) Anyone tried making their own sunflower seed butter?

Check it out..... http://www.sunbutter.com/index.php