Healthy Snack Idea: It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!!

December 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Everyone loves the classic - Peanut Butter and Jelly. Let’s turn it into a snack and make it healthier (but still very tasty!).

And, let’s have a little FUN, gosh darnit!

GO GRAB THESE INGREDIENTS:

1) Thomas’ Light Multi-Grain English Muffin

  • 6 grams of protein
  • only 100 calories per muffin
  • less than 1 gram of sugar per muffin
  • 0 grams of trans fat
  • These taste great

2) Peanut Butter

  • Your best bet is an all-natural brand with low sodium and low sugar. You can keep it traditional with creamy or fill up all those nooks and crannies with chunky-style peanuts, mmm. Arrowhead Mills Organic Crunchy Peanut Butter is one of my favorites and it has:
  • 95 calories in 1 Tbsp
  • no sodium
  • 0.5 grams sugar in 1 Tbsp (that’s very low)

3) Low-Sugar Jelly or Preserves

  • I use Smucker’s Low-Sugar Strawberry Preserves, which has:
  • 25 calories / Tbsp
  • only 5 grams of sugar / Tbsp

NOW, DO THIS:

  1. Use only 1 half of the English muffin, toast in toaster
  2. Use 1 tablespoon of peanut butter to cover lightly
  3. Add a dollop of jelly to make the traditional PB&J complete
  4. Enjoy yourself! It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!!

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  • 1 Sarah Tarica // Feb 4, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Mmm… I tried Thomas light multi-grain English muffins and they were really great; warm and delicious after coming out of the toaster oven. I also tried Arrowhead Mills crunchy peanut butter, but I accidentally poured out some of the oil – bad choice, it’s a little harder than I’d like it to be. The good thing is, since the jar is glass I was able to soften it up in the microwave. I traded the jelly out for some banana slice and it made for a pretty filling snack/breakfast. Thanks for the brand suggestions!

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