Today is the last day to enter into my SPIBELT giveaway!
Today is a day like no other…
National Peanut Butter Day! Yep you heard me right a whole day dedicated to yummy delicious peanut butter! Of course I have to celebrate by just sticking my finger into this here peanut butter jar.
Lets take a look at some fun tips:
-Peanut butter is a staple in over 90% of American households and the average person consumes more than six pounds of peanut products each year.
-Women and children prefer creamy peanut butter, while most men go for the chunky variety.
-A doctor in St. Louis created peanut butter in 1890 as a remedy for bad teeth. It became very popular with the doctor’s patients, but the oil often separated from the grainy solids.
-In 1933, a California packer was able to homogenize the peanuts into a spreadable butter.
-Did you know that it takes 550 peanuts to make a 12 ounce jar of peanut butter?
-Peanuts are cholesterol free and an excellent source of protein. In fact, it’s the high protein content that causes peanut butter to stick to the roof of your mouth.
Well since today is such a glorious day I decided that I should make something peanut butter! {It just fits right?} So I headed over to PunchFork and typed in peanut butter! {Jif is my fav!}
Of course a bunch of recipes popped up but once I saw one for Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies with Creamy Peanut Butter Filling… I was sold!
My mom and I made the recipe and let me tell you these are SOOOOO GOOOOD! They kind of taste like girl scout cookies!
Harleyyybear and Hunter are also celebrating. Harleyyy loves it! Hunter doesn’t know exactly what to think of it yet. He licks it and then his tongue goes wild… It is kind of funny!
I want to see your favorite peanut butter recipe! So leave it in the comment section below! (: Come on share them! Lets celebrate!
I’ve made a couple of other peanut butter desserts on my website.
Peanut Butter Apple Cookies.
Peanut Butter Blossoms.
Questions: Do you like creamy or chunky? Did you know today was National Peanut Butter Day? What is your favorite brand?
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Love all of the fun facts! When I was a kid, my favorite brand was Peter Pan, but now I love Trader Joe’s crunchy PB. My recent favorite PB recipe is this homemade PB on my blog…beware, it’s VERY addicting. http://www.hungryhealthygirl.com/2013/01/12/the-best-peanut-butter-ever-seriously/
your own pb? I’m going to check it out! (:
LOVE peanut butter! Creamy is preferred and Jif is the only brand for me. My signature cookie is the peanut butter blossom, my husband thinks they’re better than his mothers!
I made my first pb blossoms this past Christmas! They were so good! Definitely going to be a yearly dessert!
I LOVE peanut butter! Those cookies look so yummy and I wasn’t aware of all those fun facts that you shared!
I’m a creamy girl all the way. I didn’t know that National PB Day even existed. How does PB help teeth? U found that fact to be strange. Haha.
haha I have no idea but if you just have to spread a bunch of pb on your teeth i’m game haha!
Jif was my favorite as a kid, but Joe and I stick to natural peanut butter now. We especially love Teddie unsalted, but all we were able to get on our most recent grocery store trip was the salted kind. Still, it was delicious in my shake this morning!
I love pb shakes! they are always so yummy… I love pb everything though haha! (:
I know what you mean by the tongue going wild!! I never realized how long Kona’s tongue is until I spoon-fed pb. Now I say “PB” and he just starts licking his mouth haha. Happy PB day!! Kona is more excited than I
haha! it is always a treat for the doggies! They just love it!
Okay good…I had pb2 so I celebrated this momentous day!
I love PB 2 (:
My husband was thrilled with your announcement that it is National Peanut Butter Day and assumes that extends to Canada too!
This is a great PB recipe
http://wecanbegintofeed.blogspot.ca/2011/12/peanut-butter-pasta.html
Our pooches have always loved PB as well. Cute cute pictures.
to me its national pb day everyday! (:
pb pasta has me intrigued i’m headed over there now!
This is like the best holiday in the world. Growing up, one of my AIM screennames was peanutbutter4569. Talk about one cool chicka.
haha I love that SN. oh AIM days. How I kind of miss them! I follow AIM away messages on twitter and they are just too darn funny! I actually have an email with a list of away messages that I never wanted to lose if something would happen to them haha. I look at them every now and then and just laugh!
I did not know it was national peanut butter day until I opened my google reader. Leave it to other bloggers to fill me in on a national food day
I love overnight oats in an almost empty peanut butter jar. SO GOOD!
mmm oats in pb jars are awesome! I get the small pb jars sometimes just so I will finish them faster and be able to put oatmeal in them! (: