The Problem With Peanut Butter?

Everyone has a love-hate relationship with peanut butter. You probably remember hungrily opening your lunch box in second grade, only to find a heat-scorched, gooey peanut butter and crystallized jelly sandwich on crummy white bread. Day after day, peanut butter became a bit of a ritual; month after month, it became a bit of a drag…and before you knew it, you swore you’d never touch a peanut butter sandwich again. Now you might eat it every now and then for nostalgia’s sake, unless you’ve been totally and utterly scarred for life. But that nasty peanut butter sandwich is only peanut butter at its worst. And in fact, you probably don’t really know peanut butter at all.

I have a 100% love relationship with nut butter. It was my enemy throughout elementary school, then my savior in high school when I needed to gain healthy weight. So I eat peanut butter, almond butter, or nuts in general once a day, sometimes twice, and I have enough recipe ideas to keep any of it from getting boring. Depending on the brand, nut butter can be one of the healthiest foods you can eat. Depending on how it’s served, it can be one of the best tasting, too!

So this blog is here for a few purposes: for those who want to re-acquaint themselves or their children with peanut butter (the right way); for those who need a painless way to gain some weight; for those who’d just like to thrive on a nutritious food, and maintain a healthy weight; and for any peanut butter fanatics who may still exist, and need a few fresh ideas.  


Maybe no one will ever read this, and maybe I'll just get too busy to post. Right now, I'm just seeing if blogging is the right thing for me - to put something out there and help other people for a change. I'm no nutritionist (I'm in high school...) but I've gone to see my fair share. Peanut butter is my key to healthy living - maybe it can be yours too.