One of Landon's favorite foods is Smuckers Uncrustables! If it were up to him, he would eat them for every meal. Unfortunately, they are also packed full of sugar and a bunch of other things I can not pronounce. We try healthy as a family, that does not mean we never eat out or have a candy bar, but we do try and limit sugar and processed foods as much as possible. Yet, the convenience of a frozen PB&J that will perfectly thaw in time for lunch, requires no prep and minimal cleanup, and can be eaten in the car with ease, is very tempting! Especially when we are running late, which is almost always. My solution, try and make them myself!
Ingredients:
Honey (I like raw organic honey from Trader Joe's)
Peanut Butter, Almond Butter, Cashew Butter, Etc.
(Trader Joe's has a creamy unsalted peanut butter with one ingredient, peanuts)
Butter
Bread
Directions:
Apply peanut butter to one slice of bread,
apply butter to the other slice of bread,
apply honey on top of butter.
(Simple enough so far!)
apply butter to the other slice of bread,
apply honey on top of butter.
(Simple enough so far!)
Take a wide brimmed jar (I used a glass leftover glass container)
place on top of sandwich and press down firmly. Cut off crust.
To get the most of the sandwich, I did this step twice, once on each side.
So it turned out looking like this. Not perfectly round like Uncrustables are,
but we utilize more of the bread.
All that is left to do is place in a ziplock baggie and freeze!
I sealed all the sandwiches in their own sandwich bag
and then placed them all into a large freezer bag to preserve freshness.
They keep for about a month stored this way.
Tried, tested and Landon approved!
Next time you are on the go just remove from freezer, let defrost and munch away!
