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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Are your kids peanut butter purists
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When it comes to certain foods, my kids don’t like to mess around with what works. One example is peanut butter. For them, it belongs either on a sandwich smeared with jam (or marshmallow fluff on a special occasion) or in a candy covered with chocolate.
It appears they aren’t the only ones who find this a winning combination. The Nielson Company, a marketing and media information company, predicts consumers will spend more than $87 million on peanut butter and nearly $13 million on jelly during the four-week period surrounding the first day of school. That’s a lot of PB and J.
EveningEdge has just published a PB&J package with recipes for a wide variety of variations on the traditional crunchy PB and Concord grape jelly. There’s even a recipe using pita bread. I have tried to get my kids to think more creatively about the combo, pairing frozen waffles with the combination or substituting jelly with drizzled honey and fresh banana or strawberry slices. I also tried a grilled peanut butter and chocolate chip sandwich, heating the chips until they got melted and gooey (or substituting nutella, the chocolate-hazelnut spread). While they were willing to “humor me” with a bite or two, there was no way that these combinations were going to displace “the usual” from their lunchboxes.
What about your kids? Are they willing to experiment with favorite foods or do they like to stay with what works? Would they be willing to swap out their favorite combination for one mentioned here?
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