Plus, you can kill two birds with one stone if you make a few extra sandwiches and hand them out to others. That's the goal of the Fight Hunger with Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches Campaign. This is a link to the first event, but there are now a few events per year, I believe.

http://www.spaflyer.com/2006/11/fight_hunger_wi.html

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I feed peanut butter to my kids daily, and partake myself at least once a week. I especially enjoy it smeared on a banana for some reason. It's nice to hear that this is a sustainable treat!

Peanut butter is very fortifying. The USDA lists 188 calories per serving: http://calorielookup.com/food/view/16098.

The calories are mostly from fat, but there's 8 grams of protein in there as well. They list a serving as 2 tablespoons, but I think most people probably use closer to 1 tablespoon.

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Wow, who knew that I've been saving the world pretty much my whole life? Trader Joe's organic creamy PB is my personal favorite.

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i love peanut butter, but i used to eat it every morning (mixed into oatmeal) and it made me gain a lot of weight. :(

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"Their website also offers alternatives to PB&J if you aren't partial to that combo (or you eat your lunch at a place that forbids peanut products)."

Or if you're allergic to peanuts, like me, and even a teaspoon of peanut butter could kill you.

The basic point of this movement is just that the most common (and typically inhumane) methods of raising and butchering animals for human consumption generally create a lot of carbon emissions which obviously contribute to global warming - thus, simply eating less meat and reducing the demand for meat products would, in theory, be helpful to the environment. Eating a PB&J for lunch is a very specific example of how you could accomplish this, but really all you'd need to do is to simple eat more exclusively vegetarian meals than you normally would and eat less or no meat.

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I'm a fan of PB and low-sugar Strawberry J! I've been using the all natural no sugar added brand from Whole Foods for about a year. Delish!

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Have to go with natural PB and natural jelly, no trans fats in natural PB and no high fructose corn syrup in natural jelly.

@ # 2...2 tablespoons per serving? Ha! Try 4 or 5 for this guy! :)

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Check this out: http://blog.kitchenmage.com/2007/10/dear-peta-women.html

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