Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

I feel like I can be honest here - we're all friends, right?

I have a problem, but since you're all Pinterest and DIY addicts too, I bet YOU have the same problem.  The problem is, I think that I can make everything.  I call it my superwoman complex.  I will see something in the store and decide not to buy it because I'm just SURE that I can make it myself at home.  This goes for anything from clothing to crafts to food.  Sometimes this superwoman complex serves me well, and I have great success.  Sometimes I make a total fool out of myself and fail miserably.

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that today's post is one of the most simplest foods that almost EVERYONE loves, and I've never even thought about making it myself.  No, never.  I've heard other people who have done it themselves but it's just never occurred to me that I could do it too.

What is it?

Peanut Butter.



Yep.  Simple, creamy, delicious peanut butter.  WHY have I never thought about doing this myself?  If you're a regular reader you may remember me talking about how I decided to cut out sugar and flour way back in January.  Well, it turns out that peanut butter has a lot of dang sugar in it.  So it was one of the first things to get cut in my diet.  Even a lot of the "natural" peanut butters have sugar.  Imagine how excited I was to realize that I could make my OWN peanut butter with nothing but peanuts.  NOTHING BUT PEANUTS!!!  Are you guys as excited as I am?


(PS - THAT jar of peanut butter pictured is not homemade as you can clearly see by the label on the jar.  I'm not sure why that's the picture on the pin, but I'm not passing judgment...)

I love one ingredient foods!  I love them!  I wish I could fill my whole house with them!  We are definitely eating "cleaner" than ever, but it can be hard to stick to foods that only have a few ingredients, so this makes me so so so excited.

And it's ridiculously easy.  Like, embarrassingly easy.  I happened to have a big ol' jar of roasted peanuts in my pantry that was just sitting there - ready to be processed into peanut butter.  All I did was pull out my trusty ol' Ninja Master Pro (which, by the way, I love.  I can make anything in it.  From flour to almond milk and now peanut butter?  Not to mention all the smoothies we've been sucking down lately...)


I had a little less than a pound of peanuts that I poured into my Ninja.  Then?  I pressed the button.  Don't worry, you can use a food processor or a blender for this too...


I let it grind for a little while, then paused to let my Ninja rest.  Then I pressed the button again.  Pause to rest.  And again.  



That's pretty much it.  It took me less than 3 minutes.  I didn't add anything else to mine, but if you wanted your peanut butter a little more salty/sweet/oily(?) you can add salt, honey or peanut oil.  The best part of this whole thing is taste-testing the peanut butter right after you're finished.  It's all nice and warm from being processed in there and it is so yummy!

Slather it on toast!  Or an apple!  Or a BIG HUNK OF DARK CHOCOLATE.  Not that I would do that last one.  That picture down there is showcasing an anonymous hand model holding chocolate slathered in peanut butter.  Ahem.



Seriously, go try this.  I mean it.  Just try not to eat it by the spoonful right out of the jar in one sitting.