Product Review: Wild Friends Foods Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter

Product: Wild Friends Foods Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter – $1.99+

As many of you, my dear readers, know by now…one of my most favorite things in life…and truly my drug of choice…is peanut butter.

Yes.

Peanut butter.

I can’t get enough of the stuff.  I eat it by the jarful.  When I’m stressed out…it’s what I turn to for comfort.  After I workout, it’s what I grab to get some protein.  I eat it on sandwiches, in cookies, and…best of all…right off a spoon straight from the jar.  Yes…if we all have that one food that is our kryptonite…for me…it’s peanut butter.

I do try to keep it as natural as possible.  I don’t mind having to stir my peanut butter or store it upside down.  Nope.  It doesn’t matter to me at all.  Because peanut butter is one of those perfect foods that balances my love of sweet and salty…all at once.

Well, while in Birmingham, Alabama, I discovered little sample packets (and the jars) of nut butters from Wild Friends Foods.  The cute, winking squirrel on the label was what caught my eye first.  Then…the unique and different flavors.  I originally snagged my (still) favorite so far…the Vanilla Espresso Almond Butter.  But the next chance I had at Organic Harvest in Birmingham, I snatched up a few more…and one of them was the Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter.  Let me say that again…

Chocolate.  Coconut.  Peanut Butter.

Is that not heaven in nut butter form?  Of course it is.  These packets only sat in my pantry for a very short time.  Very short.  Because I was without vegan cream cheese the other day and wanted to finish off the gluten-free bagels that were sitting in my freezer.  So, I chose both of the chocolate varieties I had in the pantry (the previous reviewed Chocolate Sesame Seed Almond Butter was the other) and kneaded the packets so that when the bagels were done toasting in the oven, I could split each flavor between the four halves for my roommate and I to try.

Out of the oven came the bagels and two halves got the Chocolate Sesame Seed Almond Butter schmeared on them.  The other two halves…got the Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter treatment.  I served up one half of each for each of us and settled in for breakfast.  I tried the Chocolate Sesame Seed Almond Butter first…and loved it.  But when I took a bite of the Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter…I knew which one I preferred.  Seriously.  I had recently fallen in love with a brand of almond butter that mixed in coconut pulp.  I mean…it’s crack.  But this…this went beyond crack.  This was amazing.  The sweetness of the chocolate blended well with the texture of peanut butter…but that little tang of coconut is what made this.  Amazing.  I said it before…I’ll say it again…who needs Nutella when this exists?  I’d eat an entire jar of this without stopping if I could.  Probably best I had this in the sample packet only!!  It’s really good.  In fact, I was waiting on my roommate to comment that she didn’t like it as much as the Sesame Seed version…but she surprised me, saying she preferred the Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter variety.  WOW!  That’s definitely saying something as she adamantly declares her dislike of coconut often.  WINNING!

Ingredients in the Wild Friends Foods Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter are simple and clean.  This particular nut butter of chocolate and coconut goodness contains peanuts, coconut, organic agave, chocolate liquor, and sea salt.  Yes.  That’s it.  No unnecessary oils or preservatives.  No strange additives or white sugar.  Simple ingredients that offer big flavor.  Wild Friends Foods Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter is all-natural, non-GMO, non-dairy, kosher, and this particular flavor contains no gluten ingredients.  It is also cholesterol free!

Nutritionally speaking, a serving of Wild Friends Foods Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter is 2 tablespoons.  In this serving, you will be consuming 190 calories and 15 grams of fat.  Don’t panic over the fat content.  That comes from the nuts and the coconut.  A serving also has 35 mg sodium and 5 grams of sugar.  Only 5 grams of sugar in something that is chocolate.  Yes.  You read that right.  This serving will also dish you up 2 grams of fiber and 6 grams of protein.  You will feel full…and that is only a good thing.  You don’t want to overindulge…which I tend to do when it comes to nut butters.

Three distinctly different flavors of Wild Friends Foods nut butters have been sampled.  All of them have been enjoyed for various reasons.  It is so nice to have a brand that puts so much pride in the flavors they create and the product itself.  You can tell from the first bite how much love goes into the production of these nut butters.  And…if you like something a little sweet and nutty…the Wild Friends Foods Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter is a fantastic choice.  Keep this in your pantry for always!