The Joy of All-Natural Peanut Butter

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches bring back memories of elementary school lunches, where mom would pack this ubiquitous sandwich, crusts cut off, in your lunch box. As a college student, though, peanut butter can still come in handy as a way to fill yourself up and keep energized throughout the day, because it contains healthy fats and is high in protein. It is time for a change though, and this comes in the form of natural peanut butter.

Compared to most brand name peanut butter, natural peanut butter is a good choice because most brands of natural peanut butter, like Adam's, contain only one ingredient: peanuts. Other brands contain sugar and partially hydrogenated oils (to keep the peanut butter smooth and soft), extra ingredients that are unnecessary because natural peanut butter is actually quite tasty and doesn't need to be doctored up with these unhealthy ingredients.

Here are two tips for anyone looking to try natural peanut butter:

1. Stir the crap out of your peanut butter once you open it. You'll notice a layer of oil at the top, which when stirred in, gives the peanut butter that nice creamy texture.

2. Refrigerate the peanut butter right away, unless you want to repeat step one every time you want to have PB&J or ants on a log (celery spread with peanut butter and topped with raisins). The natural oil from the peanuts will separate from the peanut butter when warm, so the refrigeration will stop this.