Nov 12

Nov 12 It's Peanut Butter Lover's Awareness Month

We all know what Peanut Butter is.
It appears in all sorts of things: sweets. sandwiches and sauces. You can buy crunchy peanut butter or smooth peanut butter, peanut butter with honey, marmite and all sort of odd things you would never imagine, but they work.

It is full of protein and favoured by bodybuilders and hikers, so not really that healthy for ordinary people. Although low in sugar, it is very high in fat.
But despite all this it is lovely.

It is made from peanuts, which are not nuts, they are a legume that originated in South America and have been around for over 7000 years. The history of peanut butter can be traced back to the Aztecs and Incas, but the modern use of it seems to have started in 1884 in America. It was patented by a chemist called Edson. He was concerned that people unable to chew properly would be able to get the nutrition they needed and the rest they say is history.

Peanut Butter Lovers Month started in 1995 and has been celebrated ever since for a whole month ! Yummy

Making this delicious butter takes a huge amount of peanuts. About 540 to a 12 ounce jar. The Americans consume about 800 million pounds of it yearly, which is roughly 500 billion peanuts.

The Americans love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The average American eats in his life about 3000 of them and if stacked on top of each other would be higher than the statue of liberty.

The Europeans don't seem to like it and eat less than one tablespoon each year. Their education is sadly neglected.

Home made Peanut Butter Ice Cream, OMG it looks fantastic.

This month needs to be celebrated in style.
Try marmite, peanut butter and banana sandwich, or use it in cooking. Also, try peanut butter ice cream - delicious - or even buy some peanut butter sweets. Peanut butter on toast for breakfast is wonderful, and don’t forget peanut brittle!

Get friends etc. around and share some of your favourite recipes with peanut butter.
Have a peanut butter themed party and have a blindfolded peanut butter test to see who likes what brand of peanut butter.