A small part of my continuing quest to be the best husband that ever walked upon the face of the earth is to make the kid’s lunches before school. The result is that a) My EC loves me extra, and b) most mornings when I am typing this post, my fingers still smell of peanut butter.
I have made a lot of peanut butter sandwiches. Yes, I try and mix it up with ham and cheese, etc., but it seems that PB&J usually wins the day, and the rare times I actually ask the FOMLs what they want, that’s what they ask for. Most of the time, we can’t bring ourselves to lay out the $$ to pay for a slice of crappy pizza or a few chicken nuggets at school.
I have nothing against a good PB&J – there’s nothing better than one made with chunky peanut butter, homemade plum jam, and fresh homemade white bread – with a large glass of icy cold milk. But I would never order one when dining out. I have seen lots of restaurants try and maximize their profit margins by selling a variation of the PB&J. “Organic” peanut butter, with “organic” jelly, grilled, or dipped in batter and deep fried. I’ve never been tempted to try one. PB&J is a simple, home-based pleasure. Did I mention that the milk must be really cold?
For my EC and me, chunky beats creamy. My kids think otherwise. As they mature, they will hopefully upgrade. Homemade jam is best. Followed by grape JAM, not JELLY. Yes, there is a difference. Sometimes honey works well too, but tends to soak into the bread too much.
However, there is a variation of the old PB&J that is ridiculously good, and is far and above the preferred peanut butter vehicle for my youngest FOML. It is called the Fluffernutter.
A Fluffernutter is composed like a normal PB&J, but instead of jelly, you use marshmallow creme. Yes, marshmallow. It is delicious. And no, I am not making this up. If you are from New England, or the South, you probably know what I’m talking about. In fact, Fluffernutter even has it’s own Wiki page. (here)
When we first found out about them on some TV show, we thought it sounded gross. We tried it, and now “Fluff” is a pantry staple. Don’t mock me unless you’ve tried it. Then you can mock me. Then you can “Stop it!”. (Defenders? Anyone?)
Oh, I can hear the screams: “That is so UNHEALTHY!” (eye-roll here) Yeah, nutrition is obviously my key focus as I am slapping sugar on a sandwich – whether it comes from fruit, or bees, or a Fluff bottle. Would it help if I told you that most of the time it’s on a multi-grain bread? No?
Did I mention that I have made millions of peanut butter/flufffernutter sandwiches? Luckily, I don’t remember most of them – as I usually make them really early in the morning, and am somewhat incoherent. Kind of the same way I write my blog posts – Neither require much skill, or sharp instruments. I know some people who are so organized that they make an entire loaf of sandwiches in advance, and freeze them. All I can say is “Wow. Your freezer must be a lot emptier than mine.”
So tell me about your PB&J life.
Have you tried a Fluffernutter sandwich? (If you haven’t, you should. It’s delightful.)
PB & Honey w/bananas?
PB & Honey with potato chips?
PB & Nutella?
Grilled PB&J?
Peanut butter and maple syrup on waffles? The BOMB. (Ok, not technically a sandwich, but you needed to know – it would be extremely messy in a sack lunch)
Are you like my 10 year-old, who hates chunky peanut butter, or do you have a sophisticated palate, and prefer chunky?
As of yet, I have not found an effective way to merge peanut butter and meat products. So I am open to suggestions.
If you are just starting your day, may I recommend butter on toast?
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I Probably gained 5 lbs just reading these posts.
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I didn’t read through all 98 comments, so sorry if someone already said this but my husband does something I had never seen before – he mixes up the peanut butter and jelly on a plate or in a bowl before putting it on the bread. Different, but definitely something worth trying! (We’ve been using creamy so I’m not sure what the consistency and ratio pb:jelly would be like for crunchy)
However, I think he and I were even when he saw me put PB on waffles (with syrup of course) – a must for me!
Wow. A LOT of comments, huh? I must admit, I only made it through about 1/3 of them, so if this is a repeat, I apologize. My mother used to make me peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches. Her mother made them for her and now I make them for my kids, and they love them. There’s something about the sweet and sour, soft and crunchy thing that works so well. Go ahead and try it. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when they are done right, but done wrong, and it harkens me back to the lunch monstrosity that was my childhood. My dad made my lunch for me too, but he would use homemade whole wheat bread (made in a bread maker, so it was big and square) and slice it roughly 1 1/2 inches thick. He would use about 1/2 teaspoon of peanut butter and the same amount of homemade grape JELLY. The result was a 3 inch sandwich with one side, essentially, spritzed with jelly, and the other without enough peanut butter to stick the two sides together. Bleh! He was not great at making lunches. One time we were out of bread, so he packed me two oranges and called it good.
I am not a huge fan of PB&J…but wait it gets crazier…UNLESS they are toasted…open faced. I can do creamy or crunchy and I can handle just about any jelly.
Another fun combo – chocolate graham crackers, peanut butter, and fluff!
Haven’t had that in ages….food allergies at our house.
But there is something magic about PB and graham crackers. A few times that’s what we had for dinner. The whole box was gone. (There was only one toddler, and daddy was working late)
My kids and I recently discovered grilled PB&J. It is really good, but kind of messy. I also really like almond butter and jelly. I now really want to try peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, maybe with some pepper jelly.
Fluff and marshmallow creme ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
It’s like comparing shakes from Iceberg and McDonalds.
Just in the last couple of years Fluff has become more widely available nationwide but for years, containers of Fluff were often the most coveted treat I could haul west from Boston. (Fluffernutters were even a staple at the family reunion potluck!)
I know! But if you can’t get Fluff, sometimes you have to settle for marshmallow creme.
I am surprised no one has mentioned how much easier spreading creamy peanut butter is– I like chunky but everyone else in my home likes creamy and I am happy with this. (Does this mean I’m lazy? )
I totally just ate toast with peanut butter and strawberries. Looove it! And pb& banana hmmmm!
Fluff=gross
85 comments about pb&j?! Awesome.
And I struggle with the fact that it took you 85 comments to even bother to chime in.
When I was young my mother would make pb & relish, and pb & honey with grated carrots. Both are good. As gross as they sound, both are good.
While there are already a lot of comments, I feel the need to share two things. First, when my daughter was 2, she asked for a peanut butter and jelly and cheese sandwich. And she ate it. And she liked it. Secondly, I like the honey soaked bread and have discovered the triple decker Peanut butter and honey sandwich. 3 slices of bread: Bread, peanut butter, honey, bread, peanut butter, honey, bread. Somehow, that extra layer brings it from a 7 to a solid 10 for me. And if you are counting stats, we’re a divided family- the younger half prefer creamy and the rest of us are chunky fans. We also are firmly in the Nutella camp.
Fluff and Nutella. No contest. It’s like a S’more sandwich. 🙂
My kids make their own lunch every day. And I have a son with Peanut allergy, so a favorite of his is cheese and jelly. You should try it. 🙂
I have experimented with grilled cheese and jelly – I saw a show once where they had five kinds of bread, five kinds of cheese, and five kinds of jelly – and they would choose one of each and make a grilled cheese. We thought it was cool, so we tried it on a Monday night dinner with 3/3/3. Everyone made their own variation. About 75% liked it.
Almond butter or sunflower seed butter are decent alternatives.
Also love a good grilled or broiled cheese sandwich with strawberry or raspberry jam.
I meant “if I start repenting right now”.
Não se preocupe. Nós te amamos mesmo se tiver problemas.
I’m sorry. I’ll probably have my US tourist visa cancelled but I have to say that PB&J or whatever doesn’t sound/taste/look coherent for my eyes/tongue/stomach. Do you think I can be forgiven in time for the Second Coming if start repenting right now? Hugs from Brazil.
Pb, banana, and nutella on whole grain bread, heated up on the George Forman grill. Mmmmm
Oh how funny…I had a fluffernutter for lunch today and thought “People in Utah are missing out – I should blog about fluffernutters.” My mom mails Fluff to me from Connecticut. I also ate one every single school day from 5th to 8th grade. How could I not comment on a post about fluffernutters?!
If you can’t find Fluff, you can use marshmallow creme that you find by the ice cream toppings. It’s a little more dense, and a little more expensive, but same net result.
Holy moly! Look at all those comments. MR. POPULAR!! when I’m done with my 8 week challenge of no sugar I will for sure be trying a flubbernubber 😉 or whatever it’s called.
okay so this is one i got from my father, and i’m going to scroll up and discover i’m alone i’m sure…but pb&p. pickles. anyone?
I thought the fact that the honey soaked into the bread was the whole point of putting it on! Chunky peanut butter IS the best (even if my kids asked for the kind ‘without rocks’) and I still love peanut butter sandwiches on homemade bread . . . Not big on milk, though . . . and I have seen marshmallow creme, but never this ‘fluff’ stuff . . . Is it by the ice cream toppings? or the honey and jams?
In my market it’s near the candy – on the same aisle as the marshmallows.
Skippy Super Chunk PB and apples
PB and bananas and choc chips
PB and homemade strawberry jam
PB and honey
PB and syrup on mom’s homemade multigrain waffles
PB and bananas and honey on a bran muffin
PB on a spoon
PB and homemade apricot jam rolled up in a flour tortilla
PB, melted chocolate and roasted marshmellow on a smore.
My mom has two entire shelves in her food storage dedicated to Skippy Super Chunk. For her, it’s not wheat that is the staff of life, but peanut butter. As she has my sisters kids over nearly every day, they actually do rotate it before it goes bad. When things get really tough, she says, they will have beans and peanut butter. Or cracked wheat and peanut butter. She says that, other than toilet paper, it is the most important item in her year’s supply.
OH yeah….my college boyfriend’s mom used to make PB and tomato sandwiches. I was skeptical, but they were pretty tasty.
Our very first food storage item as a married couple was a couple of cases of peanut butter. I don’t think we’ve ever totally run out since!
I like all variations of PB&J; love all types of jams and jellies, usually they are jams because that is what I can make (jelly seems more taking). Blackberries – love, actually all berries, I have even made Watermelon; but have you tried Currant? Love It!
My Dad will have a PB and Miracle Whip (not Mayo, he hates Mayo), so of course I can honestly say that I have had a few of them myself. As a kid you tend to want to try anything your parents eat.
I have never thought about Nutella with PB, sounds wonderful. Will also have to try the marshmellow cream, when I feel adventurous.
Chunky PB all the way; don’t really like creamy, I need some sustenance in my PB.
PB and Miracle Whip? Rough childhood.
Wow all these comments and you haven’t even touched the real world of PB. http://ilovepeanutbutter.com/ I have tried most varieties now, and love them all. White Chocolate Wonderful is probably my favorite, though ‘The Heat is On’ great on Celery (gotta do something to celery to make it worth eating. The Bees Knees solves your PB and Honey dilemma. And they even sell fluff at their site. Cinnamon Raisin Swirl is fantastic off the spoon. Dang I need to visit my cupboard and have some more.
Nutella with marshmallow’s grilled on the George Foreman. Yummy!
Wow, that sounds AMAZING!
One word, NUTELLA!! Peanut butter and Nutella, like a Reese’s cup sandwich… yummm!
Fifty comments, already? Sheesh, I think this means that MMM is officially a Big Time Blog.
A couple people have mentioned peanut butter combined with meat products already, but none have done it justice yet. Because it does deserve justice and deserves to be tried.
Your first destination should be the PBBLT. As with any BLT, the quality of the ingredients is important, especially the tomatoes. Don’t blame a bad sandwich on the peanut butter when the real problem is mushy hothouse tomatoes. Anyway.
Chunky peanut butter is a must here, of course. You’ll discover that adding chunky peanut butter to the BLT (already a top-tier sandwich) adds a welcome, delicious, new element. The stickiness of the peanut butter is cut both by the peanuts themselves, but also the acidity of the tomato. Rather than a sticky sandwich as most people fear, you get a BLT with an additional round, warm flavor component. The PBBLT isn’t just a funky twist on a BLT, it is an improved BLT.
When I was a teenager, my father and I would get up early on Saturday mornings, don our lycra, pump up our tires, and go ride our bikes for a few hours. Returning home we’d be tired and sweaty, and our treat was a PBBLT and a bottle of IBC root beer. That, friends, is how you keep a teenage boy’s attention.
A few years later in the late 1980s, shortly before my mission, a restaurant opened in San Diego called Rory’s Corvette Diner. It’s still there, but it appears from their menu that they’ve turned the gimmicky, kitch factor up a couple of notches. Still, their signature burger was the Rory burger, which is a bacon burger (note: not a bacon cheeseburger. That would be gross) with peanut butter. They go with creamy, but I chalk that up to business decision and keeping things simple for the customer or something. They are wrong, of course, because chunky is preferable in nearly every circumstance.
Anyway, the Rory burger is a good burger, but it isn’t great. It’s better than just a gimmick, but it isn’t really a significant improvement to a regular bacon burger: the benefit the peanut butter adds to the BLT is already accomplished, mostly, in the presence of the beef. What you’re getting in a Rory burger is a burger with an interesting texture element and some added sweetness. As I said, it’s OK.
In short, there are very good American ways to use peanut butter with meat. But the best way is to add it to a BLT.
Ah the good ol’ standby, PB&J. I love Chunky PB but no one else in my family does, so I am forced to have creamy! I send it nearly everyday with my son in his lunch. (Most of the time he brings it home too, saying he didn’t have time to eat it, but occasionally he will eat it and he loves it. I think he does more talking than eating!) I will have to try the fluff one day. I have heard it is fantastic…from a missionary serving in our area. And perhaps he will come home with an empty lunch box everyday. Oh and I can never buy store bought jam ever again. It has to be homemade!
oh yeah, as far as peanut butter and meat products – just use it to make satay sauce – goes great with chicken!
my little girl like peanut butter and appelstroop (apple butter) – and the other one prefers peanut butter with honey and cinnamon. I like it with jam. But one time I had it with white chocolate sandwich spread – and it was by far the best – throw in some chocolate sprinkles and ya got it made – of course it’s more like dessert then… the Dutch got it made!
Applestroop is a new word for me!
I have to agree with a PP who stated PB & Margarine. Yes – it sounds wrong, but I used to eat it regularly as a child. It’s very good, with or without jam. I would try it now, but my waist-line forbids too much Peanut butter, so I have my PB (crunchy or not, whatever’s on hand) and apricot preserves when I’m feeling nostalgic.
I’ll have to try the fluffernutter. Living in the South now, it is always easy to find the fluff at the grocery.
PB on waffles with maple syrup is DELICIOUS! It’s my second favorite breakfast. I’m so glad someone with influence is sharing this idea with the world. This might be your greatest contribution to humanity. 😉
I must disagree on one point, raspberry-peach freezer jam is the best in my book.
Nutterbutters are awesome. We also love pb&j, kids want grape, I love pb on toast but sometimes we switch it up with graham crackers instead of bread and they like tortilla shells and make rolls too. Last year at school my class did an experiment with nutella and pb, on which insulated yoiur thumb better in ice cold water (3rd grade). They loved it. This year maybe I will try marshmellow cream, too. Thanks for the idea.
I prefer chunky to creamy and I think my boys would croak if I ever tried to sneak them chunky. I’ve never heard of the fluffernutter but I’m sure my boys (and I) would be in heaven… we’ll have to try it.
My mother-in-law taught me how to make freezer jam (I know you’re thinking, “She needed to be taught?” but I was super intimidated to make my own jam) and that’s all we have at our house now. Homemade strawberry, raspberry, occasionally peach and mixes of all three jam. It is crazy good. I also love PB and Nutella, and when a friend introduced me to the Fluffernutter it was love at first bite. We usually do creamy at our house, but I like chunky PB on toast, like my Dad taught me. 🙂
I love PB & nutella and PB honey banana. (and peanut butter bars, and PB cookies, and reeses peanut butter cups, and….
I am a CHUNKY girl! (both in my PB preference and as the result of eating to much of the above listed peanut related junk food.) Never tried this flutterbutter thing, but I might just need to try. just last week I’ve been serving my boys BB&J’s rolled up on whole wheat tortillas and they are loving them. recently introduced them to one of my childhood favorites, “mud” sandwiches – where you mix the PB and the jam (or honey) in a bowl before spreading it on the bread or tortilla. it looks pretty gross, hence the name MUD, but it makes it so the jam or honey doesn’t drip out the edges, and you also get a perfect mix of flavors for every bite.
LOVE the idea of PB, marshmallows, choc. chips, etc… rolled into a tortilla and thrown in the fire – definitely using that one at girls camp this summer!!!
The best peanut butter sandwiches I have ever had are the ones my mom made: creamy peanut butter, Welch’s grape jelly, Wonder Bread (yeah, I’m of that age), cut corner to corner.
I still prefer creamy peanut butter and grape jelly, but I’m happy to try jams, too (only raspberry or strawberry — no blueberries for me!), and I’ll no longer spit out crunchy peanut butter.
My father always preferred peanut butter and honey (because that’s what his mom made for him).
As for my lovely wife and me — we don’t make the kids’ lunches. They are on their own. Lovely wife makes “pizza breads” when we makes our pizza on Fridays — single serving crusts with spices and cheese (no sauce; the younger kids prefer it that way) and freezes them. Those are all my HS son takes; my middle schooler makes a more complicated lunch with sandwich, carrots, fruit, etc.
We are also Nutella fans, but my lovely wife encourages us to avoid it as a main course.
I knew you were a kindred spirit – I don’t like blueberries either. I need some time to wrap my brain around letting the kids make their own lunches…
When we lived in Venezuela, Lovely Wife made lunches for all of us (including me) — she made all our food to keep us healthy. But the minute we moved home, she announced that she was out of the lunch business and we were all on our own. That’s the way she was reared. (My mom made my lunches, so this took some getting used to on my part, but the kids didn’t seem to have any trouble adjusting — I guess they still wanted to eat…)
Fluffernutter? yes. PB&bananas? definitely.
I’m surprised you ask about PB and meat. Have you never had Thai food? Granted, it’s not on a sandwich, but still! Peanuts and chicken in curry; peanut butter with peanuts and shrimp on pad thai… Oh, geeze, I need some Thai now!
P.S. Crunchy is way better than creamy.
That is so funny. My brain was so focused on the sandwich aspects of PB that I didn’t even think about Thai food. I am a big Thai fan. One of my kid’s favorite lunches is to cook a chicken Top Ramen, stir in a big spoonful of peanut butter, then add hot sauce to taste. Delish!
I too love me some Thai food.
I’m probably crazy to even put this out there, but growing up my brother and I both loved a good peanut butter and bacon sandwich. Gross? No. Delicious? Yes. And if you get the bacon on while it’s still hot, it melts the peanut butter just slightly. Shoot, now I’m drooling.
I also lived in NJ and partook of the fluffernutter goodness without thinking too much about it, although now that I no longer live there, it’s been awhile since I’ve had one.
I’ve always put peanut butter on both pancakes and waffles. When people look at me funny when I do it, I look back at them and think they’re just as weird that they don’t do it.
When I’m in the mood for nutella but we’re out, I’ll throw some chocolate chips on my toast right out of the toaster, let melt for a few seconds and then spread on the peanut butter. It’s a decent substitute when you’re in a bind.
As for peanut butter and meat, if you’re a fan of Mexican food, you’ve tried mole at some point, or at least seen it on the menu. It’s not only peanut butter but also chocolate in the sauce with either chicken or beef.
“When you’re in a bind.” I love that you made running out of Nutella sound like an emergency 🙂
someone mentioned Peanut butter and Nutella earlier but it was just in passing and I really feel it needs its own post I like to mix the PB with Nutella it tastes like a reese’s cup sandwich you can also add Jam to it though unnecessary my favorite so far has been Apricot
Peanut butter toast with bacon on top. Try it, you’ll thank me.
Also, fluffernutter… ewe. And sugar in the form of fruit or honey is not the same as processed, refined, hydrogenated, high fructose yuck.
Still sugar.
Glad I’m not the only one to suggest toast, pb, and bacon…childhood favorite! Yummmm bacon.
Hooray for Rach! You have found a home here at MMM.
I’m not a huge pbj fan but you mentioned peanut butter and syrup on waffles and my mouth started watering! By far my favorite.
One thing you didn’t address in this post is that the sandwich changs flavor based on the shape you cut it in. My son has to have triangles or a special dinosaur shape. Whole tastes disgusting.
And then there is the crust or no crust debate.
The ultimate thing for me to put on bread is, after you toast it to perfection, apply some butter and sprinkle on some cinnamon and sugar.
Yum!
I had way too many PBJs when I was a kid and can’t stand them now. But I do like to eat peanut butter on a spoon. When I was an 11 year old scoutleader we would spread peanut butter on a tortilla and liberally sprinkle marshmallows and mini chocolate chips on top. Then roll up the tortilla like a burrito, wrap in foil, and place on hot coals for 2-3 minutes a side. This is heavenly.
Every single day growing up, I had a PB&J for lunch, so this is near and dear to my heart. Even in college, that was my lunch along with a huge glass of chocolate milk. I grew up on Adams pb and homemade blackberry jam. (Jelly is an abomination. Ya can’t pread the stuff for nothin’.) We would spend days picking blackberries (they’re basically weed where I grew up) to make enough jam for all our sandwiches for the year. I have cut back on the sandwiches in recent weeks as I tried to lose a couple pounds and get in shape. But normally I am a creamy pb girl. Every once in a while I get wild and go crunchy. I like to toast the bread every now and then. Yum.
My dad taught me the best way to make PB&H. You gotta mix the pb and honey before you spread it on. And be liberal with the honey. It’s not a 1 to 1 mix. Keep adding honey until there’s a nice sheen to the pb when it’s mixed. I’d have you come over for a tutorial if I knew who you were and you lived closer.
Oh, and I have not tried the marshmallow creme (that’s what we call it) but I feel as though I will have to now. I also fully intend on trying Nutella and Creme.
Happy sandwich making!
I was a bit dubious about this post, given your ignorance of the proper sandwich spread condiment (which will always be Miracle Whip). However, I do agree that chunky peanut butter is best. I must disagree again about the plum jam, though. Homemade raspberry jam is the ultimate in jams. When it comes to healthy, I try to get Jif Omega 3 peanut butter (although it doesn’t come in chunky). It turns out peanut butter is the perfect carrier for fish oils, which almost everybody, especially children, need to consume more of. I’ll have the try the Fluffernutter some time, although I’m not a big fan of marshmallow in general.
I agree that homemade raspberry jam is the best. We have a plum tree, but no raspberries, so we make do with what we have. Wen I was a kid I loved crabapple jelly.
Virtual fist bump.
I haven’t tried a fluffernetter before . . . where have I been? And we even lived in New Jersey for 10 years. I have tried all of the other combinations mentioned, and some others that might gross most people out. (peanut butter and tuna anyone? with pickles? that was in my creative younger years) I didn’t see anyone mention peanut butter and applesauce, one of my family’s favorites on pancakes and waffles. It’s a little bit messy on bread, but I’ve eaten it that way too.
Crunchy peanut butter is the best… on toast, on waffles, on sandwiches, straight off a spoon!
When I’m making sandwiches for lunches, I spread peanut butter on both pieces of bread (regular amount on one piece, thinly on the other) and that prevents the jam/jelly/honey from soaking through. Nothing beats a sandwich made on a good, chewy multi-grain bread, with crunchy peanut butter and a homemade jam (I make cinnamon plum, strawberry, strawberry rhubarb, and grape). Well, peanut butter and Nutella is pretty hard to beat, actually.
Oh, and I remember, as a small child, that my dad would put peanut butter on my hot dogs. I remember liking it, but I don’t think I could do it now. 🙂
I think your dad was probably just messing with you – then he’d tell his friends “Hey, I got my kid to eat peanut butter on hot dogs” and they would all laugh. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
It’s entirely possible… Dad had a great sense of humor. 😉 I think he did it just to gross out my mom.
I grew up in New Jersey where Fluffernutter was a staple. I however have always, and will always hate PB&J. I know, I’ll probably be blocked from further comments. In an attempt to redeem myself I will tell you about a favorite my kids came up with. Eggo Waffles instead of bread for sandwiches. My kids are particularly fond of the blueberry ones. And you can still do all of the above mentioned (nutella, banana, chips etc.) I do this as a special treat only because I TRY to use whole grain bread most of the time. So you see, it IS portable though I’d skip the syrup part. 🙂
I would never block you for having a different opinion. I have a firm belief that people can change. 😉
Thanks MMM. I can’t see myself changing anytime soon though. Peanut butter gives me, in the words of my Polish grandmother, ogeda.
My favorite peanut butter sandwich consists of chunky pb, banana, slices of dill pickle and, occasionally, those pre-cooked Costco bacon bits. The sweet/salty/crunchy/smooth contrast flavors and textures are amazing. I remain anonymous for obvious reasons.
Let me guess…you’re pregnant. Right?
I LOVE peanut butter and honey sandwiches where the honey crystallizes. Those are better than PB & J for me. And definitely chunky peanut butter. My kids don’t even know they make creamy peanut butter!
I once had a chef friend who suggested peanut butter on my burger when I ordered it at his restaurant. It’s actually quite good, a little melty and you don’t really taste it. Try that!
{shudder}
Which part?
Oh, and for pb and honey sandwiches (or any sandwich with soggy causing components) smear a thin layer of butter on the bread first…. it acts as a barrier keeping the “wet” bits from turning your bread into a soggy mess.
I like chunky PB, always have; my children prefer creamy. I think it is a texture thing. I’ve tried all your combinations except the fluff, but I have a container in the pantry and will be giving it a try. I also make PB&J sandwiches using leftover whole wheat pancakes, just so they don’t go to waste (they go to my waist, but that’s another story). I have a friend who goes even further (farther?) and makes her own peanut butter. She says it taste way better than store bought. I love peanuts, peanut brittle, and peanuts in caramel popcorn. I served as a missionary in Dothan, AL, which considers itself to be the Peanut Capital of the World, and while there participated in the annual Peanut Festival!
No, I have never heard of the marshmallow fluff and pb, but I think I have a jar of fluff at home that I keep around for the occasion when fudge calls my name… I will have to give your sandwich a try. And yes, there really is a difference between plum jam and plum jelly… and jam definitely wins hands down. I am also a fan of pb with bananas and the pb and maple syrup combo is absolutely divine and worth the additional calories(though I had a hard time convincing my mother of that when I was a kid). As for combining meat and pb…. here’s the sandwich 411 according to my husband and I. The trick is to slather peanut butter on one side(yes, we recommend crunchy over creamy, but you can go either way). You then coat the other slice of bread with mayonnaise (NOT MIRACLE WHIP!). Add slices of onion and then use either thick slices of bacon or ham. Those are the only two meats I have ever found to work with pb. It is absolutely amazing how delicious that sandwich can be, but be prepared for funny looks from people when they realize just what it is that you are eating.
I can’t help but feel you are trying to play a trick on me…
I can see that I am not only one who eats PB and Mayo sandwiches, have since I was a kid and that is more years ago that I care to calculate!!! Yeah! The mayo cuts the heaviness of the PB and the PB cuts the tanginess of the mayo! No meat in mine, just these 2 ingredients. And that’s the truth ! (as Lily Tomlin says!) And most people do look at me funny, too, when they see what I am eating.
Oh, and I put PB on my pancakes, but leave off the mayo on those!!!
I am seriously not playing a trick MMM… try it…. you won’t go back to normal pb&j
I can fix your honey problem… this is what you do: Spread the peanut butter, put honey ON TOP of the PEANUT BUTTER side. Mix the peanut butter and honey together on top of the slice of bread with your knife. Slap the empty bread on top. There you go. Never a soggy piece of bread again. Better yet, do the same thing with whipped honey… for some reason that tastes even better.
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I use the same method for honey. (I agree on the whipped honey too. So good!)
I put peanut butter on each slice of bread and then put honey on it, which works fairly well.
Chunky peanut butter, honey and bananas. : )
or Chunky peanut butter and strawberry jam
and heresy and heart-attack margarine
Peanut butter on toast is good!
Hooray for you for being a loving, serving husband and father! Rare and wonderful beast
Yo got the “beast” part right. Still trying o figure out where the margarine fits into this..?
When I was a kid I’s butter the bread (both) and then put on the Peanut Butter Smooth but have now grad to chunky
Oh yeah. One of my favorites is peanutbutter chocolate chip sandwiches. Heated up in the microwave for just about 10 seconds so the insides are warm and gooey and the chocolate chips are slightly melted. Heaven!
Great suggestion! Adding candy is even more more irresponsible than fluff – I love it!
I definitely prefer chunky. The kids prefer creamy. I try not to ever make PBJ for lunches because it’s an easy and available snack for kids to make themselves. My trick for peanutbutter and honey sandwiches is to put the honey on the same side as the peanutbutter and use the knife to swirl it up and mix it together. The honey doesn’t soak into the bread that way.
And here’s my confession: http://beautopotamus.blogspot.com/2009/06/true-confessions.html
peanut butter is really low on sugar, high on protein and on multigrain bread is a really nutritiously sound choice. Homemade plum jam, better than store bought and counts as a serving of fruit (plus sugar). Fluff, well, there’s no defending that other than you want it, and every now and then, we should get something we want, right?
The fact that a tablespoon of jam can count as a serving of fruit makes it even sillier!