April 2 — National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day

I love this day! Although I couldn’t find any real evidence that it is an actual national holiday. Maybe it should be. I think peanut butter and jelly is probably a childhood favorite of most people. I still have mine (for breakfast).

So, in celebration of this great day, I thought I would share some fun facts:

• The peanut plant originated in South America
• Americans eat more than 600 million pounds of peanuts (and 700 million pounds of peanut butter) each year
• 96% of people put the peanut butter on their sandwich first (although I wonder how they figured that one out)
• One acre of peanuts will make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches
• In 2002, it was estimated that the average American will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before they graduate from high school

Why not try something different today? Try a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on shortbread instead of regular bread? Yummy!

Check out my recipe for Holiday English Shortbread.

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