You may have been living under a rock and never knew peanut flour existed.
Or that it’s become a very hot commodity in the blogosphere the past few months.
But if you want to make these cookies, you’d better make them now.
Of course, you can use other flours but the peanut flour worked especially nicely. If being gluten-free is important for your dietary needs, make sure you use flour from a gluten-free contract manufacturing company with quality certifications.
Vegan GF Peanut Butter Caramel Chocolate Chips Cookies with Peanut Flour
What’s the rush, you ask?
Well, apparently TJ’s is discontinuing carrying peanut flour due to low sales. You’d think the blogosphere was single-handedly keeping sales up. Julie, Deb, and Gabriela I know were at least helping keep 4th quarter sales up.
I’ve heard that TJ’s is bringing in a gluten free flour, instead. It seems that more people want GF flour than Peanut flour.
A few months ago I wrote a post about why TJ’s is successful, what products of theirs are private labeled especially for them, and various other TJ’s Trivia if you care to read it. You may be surprised to learn that Stacy’s Pita Chips and TJ’s in-house brand are one in the same.
Disclaimer: The information I have is word of mouth from TJ’s employees and from various other blog posts I have read. I have searched the internet for written “proof” but nothing comes up. Then again, would discontinuing peanut flour really make front page google news to people other than bloggers?
What else do I make with Peanut Flour?
Cinnamon Sugar Peanut Buttery Chickpea “Peanuts” with Peanut Flour
Those are cinnamon + sugar + peanut flour little “nuts” and boy, they are addictive!
You can also make my Carmelized Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Chickpea “Peanuts” if you don’t have peanut flour. And none of us will have peanut flour for much longer so get used to this recipe.
But if you aren’t a fan of peanut flour, or never even had the chance to try it, but still have a soft spot in your heart for peanut butter, try making a Microwave Chocolate Peanut Butter & Oat Snack Bar
Or make some Raw Vegan Peanut Butter Vanilla Balls (or Sunflower Seed/Almond/Cashew Butter balls)
From my last post about Target Finds and Smoothie Helpers, it was fun to hear what you put in your cart at Target.
And what you like, or don’t like, to put into your smoothies and your views on smoothie “optimizers” or additional powders or helpers. Many of you say you have tried Vega products and are fans of them.
Oh, and quite a few people thought that the Vega samples I mentioned were a Target find. No. I went to Target, came home, and found Vega samples waiting for me in the mail. Just wanted to clear that up so no one runs out to Target thinking they are going to score Vega at their local Tar-jay.
Questions:
1. Have you tried peanut flour? Thoughts if you did?
Yes, I have (obviously) tried it and I like it but I will be honest, too much peanut flour (or too many beans) and my GI system don’t always get along super well.
So although I love the taste of peanut flour, my tummy doesn’t always love it. A little is fine but I could never make “peanut flour paste” that I saw so many bloggers make and use without major GI upheaval.
2. Will you miss peanut flour if you are a fan?
There are online sites that sell peanut flour, and there is also PB2, but based on price and convenience, TJ’s is much better for me on all fronts.
I will miss it, of course, but since I wasn’t as much of a fan as some people, I’ll live.
3. Foods you’ve Seen in the Sphere that you’ve been inspired to try, for better or for worse?
Not a comprehensive list but some of my favorites include…
Sun Warrior Brown Rice Protein Powder
And now, I can’t imagine my life without those things.
Things I’ve tried because of the sphere but still don’t really love include Hemp Protein, Dulse Flakes, and I don’t know, I’m drawing a blank.
The power of blogs is remarkable. What have you tried because of blogs or anything new you’re tried lately? Did you like it?
Have a great Hump Day!
I, too, love the Trader Joe’s peanut flour. After doing some research online I found the company that makes it. They are called Local Harvest, and you can buy the peanut flour online. Woo hoo!
https://www.localharvest.org/peanut-flour-C14227
Glad you founded it. You’re quite the peanut flour sleuth :)
Be careful of where your peanuts come from. Peanuts are harvested and stored causing much moulds to form. Then they irradiate them; meaning they high-fire-heat them to kill bacterias and moulds. This then depletes the nutritional value of the peanut. Peanuts are’nt what they’re all cracked up to be, no pun intended.
outstanding
a good number
I bought peanut flour at TJs today. I talked to the manager and he looked it up for me. He said they don’t sell much of it, but the computer currently says they are still able to purchase it. So it’s not discontinued…yet. I bought 2 just in case. I’ll keep checking back. Not sure if it matters, but I live in southern California.
thanks for the info…I talked to my location and they said they can’t. Maybe a store to store thing…thanks for the info!
How sad! I’ve been working on a cookie recipe with that peanut flour. I’d love to find another source. But like you said, I wonder how many people outside the food blogging world would really notice. I used peanut flour in a brownie recipe I blogged earlier this week and my mom was “what is that?!” even though I had mentioned it a few times on the blog.. shows how carefully she reads ;)
On the other hand it really doesn’t surprise me that TJ’s is discontinuing a product I like. It’s happened a few times before and always makes me wonder why I like the things that apparently no one else does – do I really have such weird taste?!
I’ve been buying my quart-size Almond Breeze there (they had the best price) and last weekend I didn’t see any on the shelf. Fearing they had discontinued yet another product I liked, I immediately asked the manager. He had to to a bit of research but finally came up with some information that they were replacing the AB with a their own brand of almond milk (hmmm…. ya think maybe it’s the same stuff, relabled?) I hope to see it there next time, I need my almond milk! (They carry Pacific brand too, but that’s sweetened, and I want the unsweetened, thankyouverymuch!)
I have never used peanut flour but there are a lot of places in my city to buy it, so I will definitely be giving it a try.
You can still find peanut flour online! Check out Montebello Kitchens, Protein Plus Peanut Flour and Byrd Mill.
I love Trader Joe’s, and I love peanut flour! I have been making low-fat peanut sauce with it for my salad rolls.
Things I found out about from blogs and have tried:
* different types of flour (coconut flour, peanut flour, etc.)
* spelt
* coconut oil
* Green smoothies
Torri
Devastation. Well not really as you can still get the stuff on line at Byrd Mill. However, this is precisely the reason that if I find something I LOVE LOVE LOVE, I buy at least three of them, perhaps more…lip colors, sneakers, jeans, etc etc….because otherwise they WILL be discontinued as it’s written in the stars somewhere. And there’ still always PB2 (the original) but it’s not as tasty. Thanks big time for the heads up though!
the power of blogs really IS amazing. I definitely found out about the peanut flour from blogs, but to be honest it never really hooked me. reading blogs, for better or for worse, has changed the way I think about running (which used to be purely for joy, but lately has become more goal oriented due to all the races and flaunting of race times I see). Blogs definitely impact my life — probably about 10% of it!
Im still in disbelief that their discontinuing peanut flour. I called my trader joes yesterday and asked about it and the employee pulled it up on the computer and said it didnt have an X next to it or anything showing it was being discontinued. Im hoping its just certain stores that are getting rid of it.
I found you post trying to find out what happened to the Peanut flour. Now I know why our store no longer has it. Thanks