10 Years Without A PBJ
Feb. 24th, 2014 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76As many people who read my LJ may be aware, Wonderful Husband has a couple of food allergies. The big (read: DEADLY) ones are his allergies to both peanuts and all tree nuts. Which apparently is a conjunction that doesn't happen that often. Most people with one or the other only get that one or the other. But, lucky him, both are big big no-nos.
In my family, we're all lucky enough to not have any food allergies. So it was a big switch to have to suddenly start reading warning labels on everything. And there are a lot of places we simply can't go out to eat, because they cook things in peanut oil. For the sake of simplicity (and lack of cross-contamination), Wonderful Husband and I keep a nut-free home. (The only "nuts" allowed in the house are nutmeg, coconut, and us.)
But gosh darn it, sometimes I would really like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!
One of our favorite bread recipes incorporates sunflower seeds. We've recently been doing a comparison of roasted vs. unroasted seeds. I ate a handful of the latter as a snack, and paused mid-chew.
The taste was a ringer for peanut butter.
So I did an internet search, and came up with SunButter. Which is totally safe for Wonderful Husband, and carried by Target! So today I picked some up, and tried it, and I could not tell that it was not peanut butter. Huzzah! I can have PBJs again! (SBJs?)
(Wonderful Husband, for the record, tried it, but couldn't get past his visceral ingrained reaction of it looking and tasting exactly like peanut butter. Which is fair enough. Spend a lifetime avoiding something that will kill you, and an identical substitute probably is still going to make you shudder. But I suppose I'm not buying it for him. I'm buying it for me. I can now have my PBJs and kiss my husband too.)
In my family, we're all lucky enough to not have any food allergies. So it was a big switch to have to suddenly start reading warning labels on everything. And there are a lot of places we simply can't go out to eat, because they cook things in peanut oil. For the sake of simplicity (and lack of cross-contamination), Wonderful Husband and I keep a nut-free home. (The only "nuts" allowed in the house are nutmeg, coconut, and us.)
But gosh darn it, sometimes I would really like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!
One of our favorite bread recipes incorporates sunflower seeds. We've recently been doing a comparison of roasted vs. unroasted seeds. I ate a handful of the latter as a snack, and paused mid-chew.
The taste was a ringer for peanut butter.
So I did an internet search, and came up with SunButter. Which is totally safe for Wonderful Husband, and carried by Target! So today I picked some up, and tried it, and I could not tell that it was not peanut butter. Huzzah! I can have PBJs again! (SBJs?)
(Wonderful Husband, for the record, tried it, but couldn't get past his visceral ingrained reaction of it looking and tasting exactly like peanut butter. Which is fair enough. Spend a lifetime avoiding something that will kill you, and an identical substitute probably is still going to make you shudder. But I suppose I'm not buying it for him. I'm buying it for me. I can now have my PBJs and kiss my husband too.)
