We love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at our house. I have done my best trying to make them a little healthier by using fresh all natural peanut butter, reduced sugar jelly and whole wheat bread. The biggest problem in this sandwich was the jelly. Even with "reduced sugar" it still wasn't great.
I found this idea in my new favorite book, The Eat-Clean Diet for Family and Kids by Tosca Reno. This is a terrific book if you are looking to improve the diet of your family.
Instead of plain peanut butter, I decided to make some of the healthy peanut butter dip (minus the chocolate chips) I made a couple weeks ago and use that on the sandwich. It was perfect! AND instead of the "reduced sugar" jelly I just used some sliced strawberries....no sugar at ALL! I thought it turned out very yummy and so did my son. It made a quick lunch after his baseball game today.
I am sharing this post at Souper Sundays at Kahakai Kitchen, Make it From Scratch and Tasty Tuesday at City Wife, Country Life so come check out all of the wonderful soup, salad and sandwich recipes that others are sharing.
