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It’s easy to make peanut butter from scratch that your kids will like. You don’t need anything weird, just peanuts, honey and salt.

Ingredients

• 2 cups peanuts
• 1 Tablespoon honey
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Sometimes you can get the peanuts ground at the grocery store, but you can also grind them pretty easily in your food processor.

Start with 1 Tablespoon of honey and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt for 2 cups of peanuts. But you’ll want to modify these, depending on how much your people like commercial peanut butter, and how hard it is to get them to accept change.

How to make the peanut butter

1. Put the peanuts in the food processor. If you want crunchy, keep some of the peanuts aside to add at the end.
2. Add the honey and salt.
3. Process.
4. Stick your finger in and see if it’s good. I mean, don’t stick your finger in. That’s dangerous. Use a spoon!
5. Add more honey or salt, if needed. If it’s stiff, you can also add a teaspoon of canola or some other oil, to make it smooth, but you probably won’t need it.
6. Add the rest of the peanuts and process a bit more, so until the “chunks” are a good size.

It’s easy to make great peanut butter at home, without high fructose corn syrup or any other weird stuff.