Making a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich

Video Transcript

"We're just talking about healthy snacks for kids and one of the old stand buys obviously is going to be peanut butter and jelly. You've seen before in some of the other clips I was talking about preparing things ahead of time to make it easier on yourself. This is one thing you can do ahead of time and keep it in your refrigerator for a day or two. Two at the most I would say. That's your regular old peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Depending on whether your kids like crunchy or smooth is gonna depend on what you're making it with. This happens to be smooth so we just put a nice even layer over the sandwich and jelly. With jelly, there are lots of choices as you know when you go in the store. Some stores actually have whole isles just of jellies and jams. What you want to look for are the jellies and jams that contain the less amount of sugar. There can be a fair amount of sugar in some jellies and jams. I always recommend going with like the simply fruit or the ones that have no extra added sugars to their jams and jellies. Kids don't need it, its already sweet enough. You are gonna have to experiment probably whether its grape jelly or strawberry or all of the different types of varieties they have out there. But a quick snack what did that take us about thirty, fourty-five seconds. Depending on your kids and their tastes and whether there picky or not, I have seen some parents cut off the crust but you can cut these in half and what I like to do too is go even smaller. If we are talking about snacks not lunchtime meals, just go ahead and quarter them . Depending on how many kids you have, this could make two different snacks and you could combine that with one of the other healthier snacks we looked at earlier. There you have it the old standard peanut butter and jelly. "