Friday, July 10, 2026

PB&J today




The dedicated reader knows that I partake of free food any chance that I get whether it's hot and comes from a restaurant or cold and comes from the food bank I'm up for free food anytime. One of the things keeping me from having a spotless apartment is the fact that I've got so much canned goods sticking in the closet shells that any new cans of food are precariously balanced on shelves or stacks of food or whatever. I don't think I'm hoarding this food because I truly believe I will eat it if I get a chance or have to eat the food to survive not having enough money to buy regular food. I've been pondering this dilemma all afternoon. I meant that statement to be is that people who are low income. When you are low income and you have lots of kids or brothers and sisters are however you want to identify the family you always have to be focused on eating the food in front of you or send with you to work or school. And once again the reason that I'm pondering this is because on my table with the loaf of white bread a jar of peanut butter furnished by the LDS church social welfare program and another program set up by the church to feed low income people. Jars of peanut butter, small jars with red lids of peanut butter and white bread which turns to toast. I love peanut butter and I love crunchy peanut butter poor people just get smooth peanut butter. I guess that makes sense in a weird sort of way also with each LDS Food box the recipient also gets a bottle of strawberry jam. I hadn't tasted the gym until today and now that I have it's a pretty darn good Jam actually. I'm not sure how complicated it it is to make jam I or jelly. I've been in the process all I remember is washing a case of jelly jars and then stepping back as big batches of carrots, onions and what other vegetables go into making a good stew or all canned in bottles in a pressure cooker. The Jam Jar Jam bottle in a polyethylene squeeze bottle but still sealed when I got it. It's been sitting around my desk or my table for some time but it still had the seal over the material itself the strawberry jelly. We got the protection to have off and I squeeze the bottle until I got a good pile of jam that I put on the bread and smooth the peanut butter all around and later the jelly on top of it making them fine PBJ sandwich. I thought about toasting the bread first but since I didn't have any bananas to slice onto it I elected to go with the strawberry jam. As I squeezed the peanut butter out onto the bread and spread the jelly wrap with my flat butter knife. The toaster. This loaf of bread was still fresh it seemed like to me even after opening bread up a week ago. I'm sure it had more to do with the nutrients and are materials in the bread to make it last longer. I've been out of brown bread for a couple of weeks now and I like the brown bread best for toast. But I'm writing about the white bread and the Globs of peanut butter that I put on the White Bread on top of the dining room table. I I put peanut butter on both the top and the bottom piece of bread then I disclose a couple of big dollops of onto the and scores them around throwing both pieces together to make the classic PB&J. A dugout the family size bag of corn chips or Fritos the big Style for super dippers. I drug my coffee over from the countertop to the table and took a bite of my sandwich and was transported immediately to third grade the lunch room of Campus School where I fished my peanut butter and jelly sandwich out of my brown paper bag. I had saved a nickel that I used in the Big Blue milk machine for a paper cart and a milk cold. The white bread was okay but not spun the soft as the one I had today. Many times mom used the bread she had baked for the week. Now, don't get me wrong I love homemade bread but it just doesn't hold up well for sandwiches especially if they've got to survive the trip from home to school in the brown paper bag…


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