This is really good peanut butter. As I've gotten older, I've moved towards natural peanut butter choices and I just happened to try this one because peanuts are the only ingredient for the Light Roasted version (there is a Dark Roasted version from Santa Cruz that adds palm oil -- no thanks, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to avoid).Flavor is great. It has better spreadability than some other natural peanut butters but I think generally because they are natural PB's they don't include the additives that make them easy to spread.It definitely requires stirring before first using, but I've become a bit of an expert at that because a couple of our kids have nut allergies so they only eat sunbutter spread and that requires serious stirring before it can be used. But for the uninitiated, stirring can get messy and peanut oil is hard to clean up (so is sunbutter oil) so be careful.As to cost, it's about the same as other natural peanut butters. I'm not using gobs of it on kids PBJ's for school lunches so a jar lasts me a couple weeks or so. The kids in our house who can eat peanut butter choose Skippy or Peter Pan or whatever major brand we happen to buy. They refer to Santa Cruz as Dad's fancy peanut butter. That's fine by me -- I don't want to share it anyway!
Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]