National Peanut Butter Day

For those of you with peanut allergies, this is not the holiday for you! But for people like me, who love peanut butter, this will be a fun day indeed!

As most of you have figured out, I like peanut butter. So much in fact, that my dog is named after a chocolate and peanut butter candy (Not really, but we are going to go with it!).

So here are some fun facts about peanut butter!

- We, as Americans, consume 700 million pounds of peanut butter annually, about three pounds per person!

-75% of US homes have a peanut butter jar.

- Peanut butter is a good source of protein.

-  It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

-  By law, any product labeled “peanut butter” in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.

-  Four of the top 10 candy bars manufactured in the USA contain peanuts or peanut butter

-  Peanuts account for two-thirds of all snack nuts consumed in the USA.

-  Americans spend almost $800 million a year on peanut butter

-  The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school.

So I'm going to go get a Reeses and celebrate this holiday!

Erin
   Reeses & Blossom