Tried Sun and Soy Butter 2day...

We use soy butter for recipes so I am sure you could use sunbutter as well.

My younger two have no known allergies and neither one of them wants to eat soy butter or sunbutter. They say it tastes ok but they don't want it. They've never had peanut or nut anything. My PA/TNA child loves soy butter. She will eat sunbutter too but prefers soy butter.

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[b]~Gale~[/b]

My son is "creeped out" by sunbutter. He also thinks it smells bad. He is not allergic to sunflower seeds, eats them often.
I baked "peanut butter blossoms" with sunbutter (they were very good!) and he tried one. He did not know what they were. He didn't like them, but everyone else did.
BTW, if you bake with sunbutter, you need to add a little lime or lemon juice to keep the cookies from turning green. The directions are on the sunbutter website. there is a chemical reaction with the sunflower seeds and baking soda/powder.

We had a similar thing with pretzels. I went to great lengths to find pretzels that were safe for DD, who has multiple allergies. I took a photo of her eating her fist one, and she never even finished it. She said it was OK, but didn't want to eat them!

I guess it is easier for us with peanut butter, because DH, I and DD1 (who has no known allergies, and tried PB before DD2 was diagnosed) can all honestly say that we don't like peanut butter and never have.

Jason is the same way about Sunbutter in sandwiches. He'll only eat it in cookies or when I melt equal parts of sunbutter and chocolate chips together.

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Cheryl, mom to Jason (9 MFA including peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, coconut, sesame, squid)
Joey (7 NKA)
Allison (4 milk allergic, suspect shellfish, avoiding PN/TN for now)
Ryan (1) nka *knock on wood*

DS (age 5) has been in a classroom with peanut butter for a couple years now at preschool. Personally, we have had no reaction problems to PB in the classroom and his teachers have all been great about his allergies. Anyway, the school provides only a few foods for him and we pack the rest daily. As we tried to follow their menu very closely when he was younger, we tried soy nut butter mainly as our local store didn't have SunButter yet. He never cared for it. We tried SunButter later with the same result. I think he just doesn't like the texture and wouldn't like peanut butter even if it was OK. DD who is older doesn't like peanut butter or either of the alternatives either, so it makes it easy as neither of them miss it. We do have alternatives in the house, but only for the rare occasion I eat them if I want a "pb&j" sandwich. He's more bothered by missing out on milk products, but more things have milk in them so it's a bigger impact.

Before we discovered the Celiac thing, we used to make Sunbutter Special K bars with melted chocolate chips on top. They're kind of like Rice Krispie treats - very yummy. The flavors of Sunbutter and Special K blend very well.

Nate has tried Sunbutter a couple of times and has not been that into it. Kind of similar to what you described. It might be that he never acquired a taste for roasted things as a young kid.

They use it at his school (thank you, school!), so it's nice that he feels good about seeing the jar of sunflower butter even if he doesn't personally love it. He _gets_ that it could be confusing for him to like something that resembles PB so much.

We've made peanut butter blossoms (with Sunbutter) with the Hershey Kisses in the middle and my 3 non-PA kids loved them. Ryan wasn't that impressed--take it or leave it kind of things. Ditto with my Easter faux PB eggs dipped in chocolate. My other kids rave about them, but Ryan just prefers the coconut eggs. Of course, he hated the taste of PB when he was a toddler and couldn't get it out of his mouth fast enough if he didn't throw it up first (before we knew he was PA--we just thought he was being picky if you can believe it).

I find the taste kind of wanes after a few days. Sunbutter cookies (IMO) are best eaten within 2 or 3 days of making them.

I made pb blossoms with soy butter and they came out really really good. Looked and tasted just like the real thing. Could not do the Hershey`s kisses because of milk allergy. Instead I put a dab of chocolate frosting in the middle. Dd loved them. I definitely wouldn`t take them anywhere though, because they look and taste so similar to the real thing.