I mean, really.

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

You'd think that of all the days of the year, the one where you might spend some time thinking about how we, as well-fed people, are wasteful of food, would potentially be the one when you spend your evening making PB&J sandwiches for homeless people.
Like, seriously, do you people actually do this with your own jars of peanut butter? I mean, if it's a jar of PB that you have bought and paid for yourself, do you really, honestly recycle/trash the jar with that much PB in it? Because that? Is a sandwich worth of PB, my friend, and here you are saying that the jar is empty.
Is it some sort of social stigma thing? Like, you would scrape the jar in the privacy of your own home, but nobody wants to be the crazy person scraping the PB jar in public?
(And it occurs to me that this is the one socialization event/gathering that I attend each year. Other people go to parties and bars and Cons. I... make sandwiches for Loaves & Fishes once a year. Where I am know to be or soon found to be the crazy person who scrapes the PB jars.)
Besides, aren't youwe supposed to be UUs up in here? How about some Respect! For the interdependent web of existence! Of which we are a part!
That perfectly good peanut butter lurking in the bottom and on the sides of the jar need some respect too, you know.

This was Friday evening. Appropriately enough, on Thursday evening, I scraped the last of the PB from my 4 lb. tub as a sort of warm-up as I made my two sandwiches (the usual lunch + one for dinner since I was going straight from work to church). So, I started the tub on February 6th and finished it on March 24th. Sooo I eat 4 pounds of peanut butter every 1.5 months or so.

Comments

[somnolentblue]

That's... a lot of peanut butter. Wow.

I've discovered that the little cooking spatulas are the best for peanut butter scrapage. (Although, wow, most brands' jars are *not conducive* to scraping, with their weird little indention in by the mouth.)

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

I find that spatulas can wind up sort of smearing the PB along the jar wall, so I tend to prefer butter knives, but a spatula wound up working better on the tub since the sides were coated cardboardish instead of plastic. At the sandwich extravaganza last night, there were mostly 40oz containers of JIF, which is what I usually get, so I've got scraping those down to an art form (it helps, I think, that the mouth is wider on bigger jars).

[tobimonkee.livejournal.com]

i was always under the impression that the peps at loaves and fishes were just lazy and did not scrape the jars cuz they a. knoew you would do it for them b. thought you could do a better job of it or c. thought you liked doing it

i think its easier to scrape at home cuz i have a small spatula thats good for it i also sometimes save the scrape needing one and open a new one if im in a rush and scrape it later

[fuzzybluemonkey.livejournal.com]

But some peeps are new and don't know about my crazy PB scraping ways, and they still think their jars are "empty".