SIMPLE HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER

Did you know that you can make homemade peanut butter in just a few minutes? You can actually make enough to last you for months. If you prepare it properly, it won’t separate, either. It will just stay perfect and ready to be smothered between bread and jelly anytime!

You may be asking yourself – WHY would I care to make my own peanut butter, even if it’s easy?

That’s a great question!

1. It’s much cheaper than buying the organic, peanut only stuff from the store. (Yes, you can probably get the junk-filled stuff for cheaper at the grocery market but if that’s what you’re wanting, I assume you would’t be here.)
2. You know exactly what’s in your peanut butter. No hidden ingredients.
3. It’s easy to stock up and have ready to go at anytime.
4. Less likely to have mold. Unless you’ve been under a rock (I say this and chuckle because I just found out about it but apparently it’s been a “thing” for a long time – so if you’ve been under a rock, maybe we were neighbors ((grin)) ), you have heard that peanut butter can have high levels of mold – not from the process of being made into peanut butter but it’s actually originating from the peanuts.

So, let’s make peanut butter!

A few things to note:

Use valencia peanuts. The red-skinned ones. They are unlikely to have mold.

If your blender starts to smell hot, just take a break for a couple of minutes and go back. It won’t hurt a thing!

Store your peanut butter in wide mouth pints, they are easy to get the peanut butter out of.

I get my peanut butter from Azure Standard. So far, they have had the best prices for raw, organic peanuts that I can find.