What can be more classic than that?
Well.... When peanut products are banned due to student allergies, there's really no having a PB&J, is there?
How do we rework this into a healthy alternative that still tastes good?
First off- try sunflower seed butter instead of peanut butter- it's tasty, tree-nut free, and generally accepted at tree-nut free schools.
Second- toss the sandwich bread. It's highly caloric, highly processed, and doesn't taste all that good. (switch to pretzels (I like stick pretzels best) or plain pita chips instead)
Third- go with whole fruits. That mashed boiled sugar flavored to taste like fruit is not good for you. Go with sliced strawberries, whole grapes, quartered apricots, diced peaches, sliced apples (dipped in lemon water to hinder browning), or any of your child's/teen's/husband's/wife's/life partner's favorite fruits.
I doodled a quick mockup of one- (this would be in an 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch) container:
2 tablespoons of sunflower butter in a silicone muffin cup (to keep things less messy) - 200 calories
1/2 cup sliced strawberries- 27 calories
2 apricots, cut into quarters- 58 calories
1 medium sized carrot, cut into sticks- 30 calories
and 1 and 1/2 ounces of prezel sticks (about 80 pretzel sticks)- 150 calories.
That's a lot of food for 465 calories. And you get a LOT of vitamin A, some low fat carbohydrates, some good protein, plenty of fiber, and it tastes good to boot.
Doing all of this, including slicing the fruits and veggies, might have taken me at most, on a bad day 25 minutes for two of these.
And doesn't even my terrible drawing look more appetizing than a PB&J thrown together on white bread?
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