Project Open Hand serves healthy, nutritious bags of groceries to clients on a weekly basis. These bags include staples like fresh fruits and vegetables, dried beans, rice, eggs, milk, cheese, tuna, tofu, and peanut butter – a client favorite. Because peanut butter is such a popular choice among our clients, we decided to start grinding our own. The peanuts used in Project Open Hand peanut butter are grown in the United States and are ground fresh every day by our dedicated volunteers. By grinding our own peanut butter, Project Open Hand reduces per unit cost by forty percent and produces a much healthier alternative for our clients. Our peanut butter is all natural, trans-fat free, and contains ONE ingredient – peanuts! Typically, commercial peanut butters contain added ingredients like sugars, salt, and hydrogenated oils. Thus, our clients receive healthier and tastier peanut butter.
Our peanut butter is now available to the Bay Area community. Proceeds from each peanut butter purchase benefit Project Open Hand’s meal and nutrition services and raise awareness about our organization and our mission.
If you would like to purchase a tub of peanut butter directly from Project Open Hand, please send us an email or call us at 415-447-2315.
Where to buy Project Open Hand Peanut Butter:
- Whole Foods Franklin
- Whole Foods Noe Valley
- Whole Foods Potrero Hill
- Whole Foods Haight
- Bi-Rite Market
- Real Food Company
- Falletti Foods
- Golden Natural Foods
- Harvest Urban Market - SOMA
- Harvest Ranch Market – Castro
- DeLise Dessert Cafe
- Bon Appetit Management Company
- Yahoo, Twitter, Lucasfilm, Stanford University, VMWare, Genentech, SAP, Brocade, Cafe Tibco, Xilinx, National Semiconductor, Adobe SF, Adobe San Jose
- “Open Hand Fluffer Nutter” ice cream at Humphry Slocombe
- “Open Hand Peanut Buddy” donut at Dynamo Donut
- Sweet Constructions
- Michael Mischer Chocolates
- Under One Roof on Castro Street
- Green Earth Natural Foods
- The Good Life Grocery
- Other Avenues Cooperative Market
- Canyon Market
- Project Open Hand @ 730 Polk Street
Are you interested in selling Project Open Hand Peanut Butter at your retail establishment?
- Use our peanut butter as an ingredient in a product you currently serve or sell
- Create a new product inspired by our peanut butter
- Sell our peanut butter on your shelves
If you’re interested in a partnership, please send us an email.
Chef Ghazwan’s Flourless Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
1 cup of banana
2 cups of Project Open Hand peanut butter
½ cup of sugar
½ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 Tsp vanilla extract
½ Tsp Cinnamon
Mix ingredients in a blender. Dollop onto a cookie sheet and bake 12 minutes at 350 degrees.













