Sunflower Seed Butter

One of my favorite healthy snacks is a swab of nut butter, usually almond butter or, if I'm feeling particularly decadent, cashew butter. While they are tasty and great for you (esp. the almond butter; cashews are fattier), they are expensive (esp. the almond butter, which you would think had a fine gold powder mixed into it at today's prices). Enter sunflower seed butter! Definitely the closest match in taste and consistency to peanut butter, just about as cheap, and check the nutritional profile:

The above comes courtesy of Sunbutter. And here's a bonus for you folks with peanut allergies (like my four-year-old). Unlike all other nut butters (in my experience), it's actually possible to find sunflower seed butter that's peanut free (the nut butters always have the "processed in the same facility as..." warning)! And the taste really is close to peanut butter. If you eat it right off the spoon you can tell, but with bread and jelly it's almost indistinguishable. To a grown-up, anyway. Believe me, I know all about how infinitesimally picky kids can be when it comes to food.