The only way to make a peanutbutter sandwich

[newcriminal]

A few things that are a given:

has to be jif peanutbutter
has to be welch's grape jelly

I prefer potato bread but it is not a must, that is the only thing I will let people get by with.

You spackle on the peanutbutter
and paint on the jelly

you must never paint the peanutbutter and spackle the jelly, you must never paint the peanutbutter and paint the jelly, you must never spackle the peanutbutter and spackle the jelly.

[chaska]

1. Forget the jelly. Bananas are the way to go.

[newcriminal]

2. only if your frying it, then you may use bananas

[KitchenWitch]

3. I use one of the organic peanut butters

Much better than Jif, no sugar added etc.

[newcriminal]

5. absolutely not ok

a big foul.
yes it might be better for you, but it doesn't taste anything like jif. Noway no how.

[LeftyMom]

4. Organic creamy peanutbutter (ingredients: peanuts, salt) on sprouted

whole wheat bread. Jelly is a crime, white "bread" punishable by death. Sandwiches must be cut on the diagonal and served with chocolate soy or almond milk.

[KitchenWitch]

6. I am so with you on the organic peanut butter!

[newcriminal]

9. Do your kids still talk to you?

If I gave that to my kids they would laugh at me and go make their own. soy milk, organic peanut butter, sprouted whole wheat bread, much to good for you.

[LeftyMom]

10. yep.

He's never really eaten bad food, so he's quite happy to eat healthy things. He'd rather have the bread toasted and made into a sandwich with a soy chick'n pattie though.

[chaska]

12. That's just crazy enough to work!

[ThomCat]

7. Jiff is horrible stuff.

I like the cheapest generic peanut butter you can get. Government surplus is better. There's nothing in it but peanuts and oil.

I like all fruit jams and spreads. Welch's will do in a pinch though.

It's got to be on Rye bread.

[LeftyMom]

8. Now that you guys have Trader Joes in NYC, try thiers if you get a chance

Good stuff, less than $2 a jar for the regular and $3 for the organic. They have lots of other nut butters too.

[flvegan]

13. Nut butter?

How many of Joes' nut butters have you sampled? I don't have a Trader Joes here, so I have no idea how many there are.

[LeftyMom]

15. 8? kinds of peanutbutter (organic or not, chunky or creamy, salted or not)

cashew macademia nut butter (sooooooooooo fattening but sooooooooooooooo good,) soy nut butter, and a few others I'm forgeting.

You've had the peanutbutter kind in those coconut fudge cookies I sent.

edit: They also have wonderful soft chocolate chip cookies almost as good as mine. And really great hummus. You're missing out.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. There was a very old Peanuts cartoon, from the earliest years, with this

very theme. (The really old ones where they have ENORMOUS oval shaped heads and their eyes looked different)

I think Lucy was making a PBJ for Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown was "kibbitzing" throught he whole process and telling her how NOT to do it.

His key instruction was to tell her "DON'T CUT IT! DON'T CUT IT!

Fold it over. If you cut 'em, they lose all their flavor!"

[Squatch]

14. I prefer almond butter

healthier oils in almond butter. (it's a tree nut and has higher omega 3 levels)

[vixengrl]

16. The method is the key--

Peanut butter is the glue--spackling. Jelly is gloopy--must be used for flavor, not to make a sticky mess. I am in total agreement as to method. I've also found you put the peanut butter on one slice, jelly on the other. It's the only way to work the jelly--sliding it on top of peanut butter just doesn't work. Also--potato bread is quite good, substantial and moist and flavorful all at once. But I'll confess to eating my PB&J on bagels, english muffins, even bakery baguette slices. And I'll occasionally use--*other* than Jif PB. I'll even negotiate on the jelly flavor, and go a little strawberry, or some boysenberry. Teaberry. Elderberry's nice.

I'm a peanut butter and jelly heretic.

[JVS]

17. No Smuckers?