Paleo Peanut Butter Cookies

Alright guys, let’s talk childhood memories. One of my favorite cookie recipes as a kid were the soft, chewy, warm because they were straight from the oven peanut butter cookies my mom used to make. I’m also 100% certain that peanut butter cookie recipes are beloved by so many because they are generally so simply and easy.

Before I get started lets talk a bit more about peanut butter. Anyone else grow up loving Kraft Smooth peanut butter? full disclosure, I sure did. Like the Frank’s Red Hot lady says, I put that sh*t on everything. Almost every I consumed as a child consisted of a warm piece of peanut butter toast, a toasted bagel with peanut butter, peanut butter on my pancakes, peanut butter with my apple slices and of course peanut butter on a spoon.

It didn’t take much getting used to when I switched from KRAFT to an all natural peanut butter. I can say though the only major difference was the sugar or lack there of. When looking at nutrition labels especially for nuts and seed butters you only really want to see two ingredients. For example, the Kirkland brand’s ingredients in their all natural peanut butter is dry roasted peanuts and sea salt. If you take a peak at the KRAFT Smooth peanut butter label you’ll see
ingredients like corn maltodextrin, sugar, soybean oil, salt, and hydrogenated vegetable oil (FACT: there are absolutely no vegetables in vegetable oil.)

One thing I learned from my education that I will always hold true and teach to my clients is to know your labels and read your ingredients. You want your food to have a shelf life, you want to be able to pronounce the ingredients and you definitely do not want to see a mile long list of ingredients. Be aware of and know what you are putting into your body.. after all what you put in for fuel is what you’ll get out of it in performance. With that being said lets get to this recipe!