Recipes: Peanut Butter and...

Last week I asked for ideas of fridge-less foods I could use on a peanut butter sandwich. Here’s some.

Smart Start

grade: B

Peanut butter and Smart Start cereal is a good flavor match. The crunch of the cereal is nice, but overall this sandwich is a little dry. Definitely have a glass of water handy.

Cranberry Sauce
grade: C-

Definitely edible, and it has the advantage of looking and feeling like traditional PB&J. But the peanut butter overpowers the taste of the cranberry sauce. Also, I can’t save any cranberry sauce for later and a whole can of cranberry sauce is hard to stomach in one sitting.

Apples and Honey
grade: A+

Apples are like jelly that hasn’t happened yet. This is a perfectly delicious blend of flavors. Very, very tasty. A strong recommendation.

Oatmeal and Sugar
grade: B+
Surprisingly tasty. It turns peanut butter into a hot sandwich, which is a melty treat. I found that the oatmeal needed a LOT of sugar to compete with the peanut butter flavor.

Raisins
grade: B-
Decent. The flavors blend well, but are not thrilling. And dry.

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A big thanks to Heather and my mom for their input on this.

I Invented This Really Good Sandwich

I don’t have a refrigerator. Because I live at the Y. So I buy a lot of canned foods, including tuna fish. But I don’t have any mayonnaise, because of the no fridge. So I replaced the mayo with black beans.


You know, because beans come canned in that thick bean juice. I just piled the beans and tuna fish on there, as much as the bread could hold. One can of each is enough for two heaping sandwiches, and then I still had black beans leftover for a side of black beans.

I know it sounds gross, but the beans really take the edge off the raw tuna fish, and the tuna adds a salty zip to the beans.

This meal is:
1. Tasty
2. Fridge-less
3. Very Filling
4. Way Healthy
5. Cheap (less than $2)

Which means it's like the perfect “Living at the YMCA” meal. If you have any great “Living at the YMCA” meals of your own, leave them in the comments. I’ll try them out and feature them on the blog. You’ll be doing me a big favor, and you'll be like YMCA-blog-famous. I'm especially interested in hearing about things I can use instead of jelly on a peanut butter sandwich.

P.S. Friend-of-the-blog Heather suggested adding avocado to this sandwich. I love that idea. It would raise the price a little, but also might raise the tastiness to new extremes.