Peanut butter shortage - help!

[DoubleDTown 394]

I am pleased to report Penny does have peanut butter again.

[snowingagain 5,354]

Not the right place.  But I see now that for babies, they are recommending that very small amounts of SMOOTH PEANUT BUTTER should be introduced to babies from about 4 months (if they are ready) to 6 months.  To avoid them developing allergy.    How times change.

[keith2011 2,648]

18 hours ago, snowingagain said:

Not the right place.  But I see now that for babies, they are recommending that very small amounts of SMOOTH PEANUT BUTTER should be introduced to babies from about 4 months (if they are ready) to 6 months.  To avoid them developing allergy.    How times change.

 

I saw that too, makes me wonder, being a child of the 1950s I don't think I had anything peanut until I was about 8 (when my uncle gave me some peanut butter on bread, loved it ever since) , certainly we never had them in any shape or form at home and I can't think of any sweets that contained them that I liked, only later did I discover peanut brittle. I don't believe I was particularly unusual at the time so strange that peanut allergy has become a recent problem when it is a much more common in snacks etc.

[BethAnnBitt 2,954]

2 hours ago, keith2011 said:

I saw that too, makes me wonder, being a child of the 1950s I don't think I had anything peanut until I was about 8 (when my uncle gave me some peanut butter on bread, loved it ever since)

😂 Well then, we know where you did not grow up.  No “ants on a log” as a 3 year old?  😔😄

 

[keith2011 2,648]

7 hours ago, BethAnnBitt said:

😂 Well then, we know where you did not grow up.  No “ants on a log” as a 3 year old?  😔😄

 

For sure, I had to look up what "ants on a log" is, sounds disgusting but probable tastes wonderful.

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

I've also never had "ants on a log" in my life, but PBJ was a regular since I was on solid foods, to be sure.

 

Buying peanut butter in the regular grocery store used to be so unusual that the normally quite stranger-allergic Germans would even comment upon it.  Nowadays I buy the good stuff online and don't have to explain it to anybody looking on, ha.