.025 Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

Who says you have to put a peanut butter on bread for it to be considered a meal?

I say… straight off the spatula!!!

Yes, I said spatula.  We use a lot of peanut butter in my house, so we buy the really big jars.  As in, the bottom covers my open hand almost entirely.

Ooo… and with strawberry preserves!!!

And if it must be on bread, make it wheat bread!!!

Yes, I am a bit loony, but oh well.  Peanut butter is one of my “comfort foods”.

In my family, there are two kinds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

There are my mom’s, which have toasted bread with a thin layer of butter on all four sides, and a thin layer of peanut butter, and a thin layer of grape jelly.

Then there’s my dad’s.  The bread is just there to hold the peanut butter and jelly there, so who bothers to toast it?  And who puts butter on their peanut butter and jelly sandwhich?  Glop a thick layer of peanut butter on each piece of bread, and a really big glop of strawberry preserves (because grape jelly is for kids) in the middle, and try to eat it without the insides splooshing out.  This usually involves pulling the crust off of one side with your teeth and eating it, and then sucking out the filling that wants to fall out (mostly jelly with some peanut butter), and then carefully taking bites of the sandwich.  You’ll likely have to slurp up more gooey goodness as you go.  You also can’t put this sandwich down because the top will slide right off of the bottom!

Mine is similar to my dad’s, but on a much more managable level.  I’ve also been known to go with peanut butter and honey (usually open-faced on toast), peanut butter and banana, and peanut butter and apple.

I wish I had something more interesting to tell you.

Take care,

-Lucy.