Is peanut butter healthy or not?

Could I replace butter with peanut butter to make a sandwich more healthy?

• I like eating sliced meats on my sandwich, which I always cover with a thin layer of butter. Would replacing this butter with peanut butter make my sandwich more healthy, and do you think it would taste good?

• Answer:

  The taste is a personal choice, you may or may not like it. I have heard some people like peanut butter with bacon, and with hot dogs, and was informed I should not knock it until I have tried it by a friend who did not appreciate the face I made watching her eat it. hahhah! If you enjoy peanut butter instead of butter, then you add a bit more protein than butter would offer, and you substitute an animal fat with a plant fat, which is always healthier...no cholesterol, no saturated fat with peanut butter but dairy butter does have those things. But even with peanut butter, the calories are still there, and it is largely fat...so whether or not it is a good choice, depends if you can afford those calories in your diet. An even better choice in my opinion, healthy and more congruent with a lunch meat sandwich...is to use some mustard or even ketchup. These are fat free and way less calories. Then add the vitamins from some lettuce and tomato, add some antioxidant with onion... OR you can use a reduced fat or fat free mayo or miracle whip...OR an olive oil mayonnaise.