A Peanut Butter Life
by
Marilyn Mackenzie
(Age: 56)
copyright 11-11-2001
Age Rating: 4 to 127
A Peanut Butter Life
by Marilyn Wilkerson
Is there a food that you crave, that you must always keep in your pantry? For me that one necessary food item is peanut butter.
It's really no wonder that I love peanut butter as much as I do. One thing that all of my aunts, uncles and cousins remind me of when we meet or talk is that my dad always ate a piece of bread with peanut butter with each meal. Really! Our photo album boasts pictures of a Thanksgiving table with friends and family around it, with the peanut butter jar sitting proudly in the midst of turkey, dressing and cranberry sauce. Even on Thanksgiving, my father ate a piece of bread with peanut butter!
Personally, I took a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school for lunch almost every day from first grade through ninth grade. Occasionally, I didn't have a peanut butter sandwich because someone interrupted mom in the middle of her assembly line ritual of sandwich making for her spouse and kids. She wasn't much of an early morning person, and made our sandwiches in a half-awake state each morning. If she was interrupted in the middle of the sandwich making process, I probably opened my lunch and found something really gross like chipped ham and mustard. (To my Pittsburgh friends: I really loved chipped ham. But not in my lunch, which would be stored in a hot locker with smelly rubber boots of my locker mate. He never took them home. I loved chipped ham sandwiches at night or on weekends and with mayonnaise, not mustard. I also loved chipped ham made as a barbecue sandwich.)
Packed in my lunch, I wanted a normal peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But, as an afternoon snack, my peanut butter sandwich was more creative, joined by bananas or pickles (sweet or dill). I once told someone that I'd probably try anything on my peanut butter sandwich. That's probably true. I've eaten apple wedges on my sandwich, potato chips, Fritos, and even pretzels. Peanut butter topped with fresh strawberries, or any fruit (even kiwi!) is yummy.
Peanut butter is great spread on celery sticks. And as an adult in Michigan, I discovered a restaurant that served salads with the choice of a peanut butter salad dressing. It was fantastic! A dollop of peanut butter in the middle of a hot fudge sundae was another wonderful discovery I made as a grown up.
So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Now it's your turn. What food do you love? What food can you not live without?
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Marilyn, I really enjoyed this! I smiled as I read it and can see that peanut butter jar amongst the turkey.
I used to wake my stepdaughter before I went to work at 8AM...and all she had time to do was bathroom, dress and out the door. Always with her breakfast to eat at the sitters - peanut butter sandwiches. Babysitter would give her milk - there you go, complete protein to wake her for school. =o)
Ants on a log! Celery, peanut butter and rasins. An all time children's favourite! =o)
My favourite food? Popcorn with fresh butter. Ahhh...that is life. Even got my boyfriend hooked on popcorn when I was down visiting him this fall. He never knew the wonders until I introduced him to this most best food - heck in college it was our breakfast!
Now...popcorn with peanut butter. Wonder what that would be like! ~lauging~
Marilyn,
loved your poem, did you know that peanut butter is GOOD for us? (I love it too) it does NOT contain trans fatty acids,(really bad stuff),
it also contains a substance that LOWERS the bad cholestrol, cool, huh? it has always gotten a bad rap...read your bio, quite accomplished, let's talk more sometime.
blessings,
Paulette
Marilyn, I'm not much of a peanut butter fan. I'll eat it, but it's not something that I can't live without. As kids, though, we used to eat peanut butter and baloney. It was good, as I can remember, but now, I don't even want to think about it. LOL My life's craving is Tobasco Sauce. I put that on just about everything. Haven't tried ice cream yet, hmm. . . guess I'll have to consider that one. Jackie
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