OUTGROW PEANUT BUTTER? NEVER

Our son hates nuts. Of any kind. He's passed his extreme distaste for them on to his children. At least 3 of them. Or I should say 2. His 5 year old, as I reported in a recent entry, likes anything, so I suppose he likes peanut butter at least. And his 9 day-old doesn't have too many discretionary taste buds right now.

Where did our son get this hatred of all things nutty? I don't know. It's not from me. I love nuts. Especially peanut butter.

This Summer when I ate peanut butter ice cream, it really hurt him as he was seated next to me at an outdoor restaurant in California. I knew he held antipathy for peanuts, but I didn't know it hurt him to smell it on another's ice cream. Or I certainly would have selected another flavor.

One of my favorite places to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is on the golf course after nine holes. We used to eat the little peanut butter crackers until I examined the calories and sugar in the packages. By purchasing low sugar jelly and non-salted, low fat peanut butter on double fiber grain bread, I save caloric intake and have a fuller belly. Plus, I get energized for the back nine.

Even when we tee off early in the Summer, I may eat my sammy at 9:00, or whenever I'm done with 9 holes. One of my golf buddies used to tell me I was only good for 7 holes anyway, so maybe I needed the nourishment that only peanut butter could provide.

However, I may have to change to a ham and cheese when I'm paired with our son.