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More Naturally Nutty White Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter lovin…
Breakfast from a few days ago: Vanilla protein grits (my new love, but more about that in another post) with Naturally Nutty White Chocolate Peanut Butter and Naturally Nutty Pepita Sun Seed Butter.
Shortly after opening the jar, I stared longingly at it, dreaming of White Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter Oats In A Jar. Readers often tell me they can’t wait to get to the end of the nut butter jar so they can fill it with oats, smoothies, pureed squash, etc. Friends, you do not have to wait until that jar is empty…you simply play musical jars and transfer nut butter from jar to jar. So, my Naturally Nutty PB went into a clean glass jar…
and I enjoyed myself a little White Chocolate Coconut PB drenched oat action with a square of unsweetened chocolate…no waiting necessary. P.S. Make sure to leave plenty of nut butter smeared on the sides of the jar…love that. 
Have you ever played musical jars?
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Ingenious. And unabashed. I love it.
i’ve never played, but you can bet that i will! dreaming of nut butter now…
I’ve done the same thing! And I think I need to do it again
Love this idea! Genius HEAB at it again.
I’ve never played musical jars, but I do make my own nut butter that I place in old washed glass jars.
I fill multiple jars up, even though it’d fit in one, so I can get to the bottom sooner.
Also, if I am getting to the end of a jar–but can’t wait for OIAJ, I combine jars.
For example a few weeks ago I *needed* oats in a jar (I was traveling and wanted to eat on the run–see I *needed* them!) I took all my dark choc. peanut butter, save ~2TBS and added that to a half empty almond butter jar. I got my OIAJ when I needed them, AND got a combo butter out of the deal. SWEET!
Christine,
I like the way you think!
I have done that too, I love eating oats in the nut butter jar!!
Never thought of calling it “musical jars” though, funny!!
Heather thank you for enriching my life once again
I love this idea and I will totally do this very soon. I have 3-4 1/2 empty nut butter jars (diff flavors of course) and I never thought of musical jars.
I loved your blog before, but I feel like your posts keep getting funnier and funnier, or maybe I’m finally catching onto your humor? I don’t know, but keep it up
Hehe – Thanks Holly and enjoy your game of musical jars!
Great solution! Your oats in a jar always come out looking so good. Have a nice day.:)
You too Stefanie.
I can’t believe I never thought of that! I will definitely be playing Musical Jars in the future!
This is greatness! Yesterday morning, I had a little too much dark almond nut butter for my “While-I-Blow-Dry-My-Hair-Oats” so I simply scooped out some from the jar with a spoon, attempted to restrain the spoon from making it to my mouth, dolluped the nut butter on some wax paper, and stashed it away in the freezer for an after dinner treat. It was a win-win situation – what can I say?
Steph,
Brilliant. I love frozen blobs of nut butter, and I love that you call them “While-I-Blow-Dry-My-Hair-Oats”. Hilarious!
I always have Smuckers natural PB on hand. immediately after opening the jar I tranfer it to a shallow container so I don’t have to deal with that annoying oil spillage when I stir it up.
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So yeah this is the only way I know HOW to deal with natural nutbutters!
My aunt does this too….when we were on a vacation together she put the now empty jar right in the sink….my heart sank!
Christine,
I think I would have cried. I used to lecture CD whenever I noticed an empty nut jar sitting in the trash. He now knows to save them for me.
Heather,
I used to do that too until I got this nut butter stirrer: http://heathereatsalmondbutter.com/2009/02/22/bye-bye-barney/. Love it!
Genius! I’ve never done that before.
I’ve played, and I love it!
I need to start doing that!
Musical jars sounds like the best game EVER!! Must.get.playing.
I play musical jars in a different way. I will open up a jar of PB, but then I want AB, and then Nuttzo! . . . and then Dark Chocolate AB . . . you get the idea.
Your picture makes me want to run into the kitchen and make that right now! It looks so good! =)
Uh no,…but I will be now!
Actually I have about 4 open nut butters now – you never know when you want a different flavor so I have to keep them on rotation
The only downfall is the expense – I need to save money and these suckers can run you dry…:(
Haha, no I have never played musical jars but it seems like a pretty genius idea.
Haha! I’ve never played musical jars, but it sounds like much more fun than musical chairs!
I just keep my empty jars and spread whatever nut butter i’m in the mood for on the inside. I used to do this with bowls too before oats in a jar became popular.. now i just find jars more fun then bowls
Tara,
Yes, what is about eating from a jar? I like to drink from them as well.
I haven’t played yet, but now that I am venturing into the world of nut and seed butters, I can see it in my future. I just posted about how I got chocolate almond butter for almost half off at the store today…..can’t wait to bust into it.
What a great idea! I love scraping the last bit of anything out of a jar. Its always such a treat. I’m definitely going to play musical jars!
Can’t wait to hear more about protein grits, I <3 grits! Still must try that nut butter. I wish our store would stock it. Guess what I DID find there today? MimiCreme is now making smaller sized boxes of coffee creamer! I picked up a box of vanilla and a box of hazelnut biscotti. Can't wait to try them this evening, I'll need the pick me up before bible study!
Sam,
Really?!? I need to find those creamers – didn’t even know they had flavored ones out now. I so miss coffee, and I want to start making decaf when I get home.
Love it. I thought about it once, but for some reason decided not to. What an awful decision!
Michelle,
Really, what were you thinking?!?
Lets try this again, (I had an error on my last comment)
I’ve never played musical jars….never even thought about it> Now that I know how the game is played, I will definitely try it out. However my jars are medium sizes…hmmm, could be dangerous. To fill or to not fill it up all the way to the top. j/k
Thanks for this idea. You never fail Heather in giving us cool tips.
What an amazing idea, I love it! I think I will have to do this in secret though, I don’t know if my mom will appreciate various nut-butter jars throughout the kitchen…must find hiding spots
Emily,
Hehe – that’s what bedroom closets are for.
Ingenious!
Never even thought of doing this… what an AWESOME idea!!
xo
Kris
I have never even thought of that! Maybe I will be buying a jar of (sweetened) nut butter sooner than I thought….
Nope! Never played it, but I rarely have glass jar PB’s. I’ll have to invest in one to try this very popular oats in a jar thing!
Nikki,
Yes, do it!
OH, great idea. I’m actually heading to the Common Market (our version of Trader Joes/Whole Foods) to stock up on nut butters today.
Thanks for this and ALL your ideas! My husband and I are addicted to veggie and goat cheese scrambles a la HEAB. He thinks the pieces of whole wheat tortilla squares are genius. I also made an impromptu veggie/bean chili the other night and threw in a large spoonful of almond butter – YUM! Love your blog!
Lisa,
Thanks so much for reading. Love to hear that both you and your husband are addicted to HEAB concoctions. That makes me happy.
I definitely love playing Musical oats in a jar! xD But the first time I tried it, I put hot oat bran in a waning plastic jar of Justin’s Maple Almond; I was kind of nervous about the oat bran being too hot and then the fact that the jar was plastic… Well, next time I’ll do a little more work and scrape the butter out of the plastic jar into a glass one… and then play with that one
Sounds like a good plan Sylvia. I don’t like putting hot food in plastic either.
Never played that, but it seems like a great idea! I do have dozens of mason jars just yearning for a little oats-in-a-jar action!
Mahealani,
Strike up the music and enjoy.
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