Alvaredo St. Bakery Breads, Healthier PB&J
After my sunflower seed butter post, I really should get you the rest of the way to a healthier PB&J (SSB&J, in my version). Alvaredo St. Bakery makes my breads of choice, and you can get 'em in Price Chopper and Stop & Shop (at least in MA). Check out the ingredient list on their multi-grain bread:
Sprouted Organic Whole Wheat Berries, Filtered Water, Wheat Gluten, Honey, Molasses, Organic Millet, Organic Cracked Wheat, Organic Corn Meal, Fresh Yeast, Sea Salt, Organic Oats, Organic Rye, Organic Sunflower Seeds, Organic Flax Seeds, Soy Based Lecithin, Cultured Wheat.
Definitely the tastiest mass-produced healthy bread I've encountered (I know a fair number of you will likely think the phrase "healthy bread" is an oxymoron). Here's the nutritional info:
Their sprouted wheat bread has another gram each of both fiber (good) and sugar (bad).
Last piece of a healthier SSB&J is the jelly. Smuckers makes a nice low-sugar strawberry jelly that doesn't use artificial sweeteners. It is interesting to compare Smucker's regular strawberry jelly (12g sugar), low-sugar strawberry jelly (5g sugar), and their "100% Fruit" strawberry jelly (8g sugar). Only "low sugar" lists "strawberries" as the first ingredient. Still, when I look at the ingredient list you gotta figure homemade low-sugar preserves are the way to go (like I'm made of time, though).