Peanut Butter and Jelly Fudge

In Singapore, we have a canteen with about 5 food stalls selling a variety of foods in schools. We basically buy our own food, like at a food court? Its the same in Junior College (where I am studying now) I would buy bread and and snacks, never ate proper meals in school when I was a kid. Annnddd…. that hasn’t changed! Haha.

By the way, the addition of real berries make this fudge real pretty! 😀

Looks delicious, Katie. Kind of reminds me of the PB&J milkshakes I make (with soy nut butter.)

I never really ate cafeteria food for lunch, as my parents and I always packed such yummy bag lunches. Oh… the sandwich phases… peanut butter and honey was a favourite for a long time, as was peanut butter banana. Cheddar cheese and margarine lasted a while too. And then came the banana muffin, followed by the zucchini muffin… and then a stint with hummus veggie wraps.

I’ve always been a brown bagger and a lunch buyer. Usually I’d bring a bagged lunch 4 days out of the school week and buy lunch the other 1 day. Usually pizza day! Haha. 😉

When I was a student in school I ate the school lunches; literally EVERYONE ate the school lunches. It is just the way it was….. Now that I’m a teacher I bring my own lunch. If I ate that food every day I seriously couldn’t live with myself! (or the hips it would create….)

When I was in elementary school, my mother made me peanut butter and jelly every single day. It actually became a joke because I’d take out my lunch and someone would announce that it was “peanut butter and jelly….again.” But, then, every so often, she’d throw in something that was really peculiar for a little kid to eat for lunch–pizza macaroni (basically spaghetti and eggs) or some kind of soup in a thermos–and then the kids really thought I was weird!

I never, ever ate school lunches. They pretty much disgusted me even then!

These look uterly delicious, but that is no surprise! 🙂

Oh yum that looks GOOD! School lunch – I went to a small private school that didn’t have a cafeteria, so my mom sent my lunch every day. My daughter’s school offers the district lunch program, but after a HORRIBLE experience (she called me crying because she was starving and they served her the most disgusting lunch I have ever seen) I make her lunch now every day. The hard part is that she goes to a 100% peanut free school – great for the allergy kids, hard for my peanut butter loving kid.

Ick, I hate school lunches. Even as a kid I never liked them (although a few years I did eat school lunches) and always preferred packing my own. I used to make PB & J (all-natural: my family never did Skippy or Jif) all the time, or sometimes my dad would make me wraps with lots of good toppings like fresh veggies or pickled jalepenos or banana peppers, and I’d always get fresh fruit in my lunches. I also loved to bring raisins as a snack. (-:
Now-a-days I like to pack “snacky” lunches, with lots of little snacks and fruit and things, rather than a whole meal (last year at school I did this all year because my lunch period wasn’t until 2 and I could never wait that long for lunch, so I ate between classes). Last year I used to always pack Larabars as part of my snacks; they were perfect for school. 🙂
This year, I’m definitely going to pre-make all sorts of goodies for my lunches. (-;

I only ever bought hot lunch. So I basically ate whatever looked good that day. Although this was a time when I thought junk food was AWESOME and 90% of the school got hot lunch. The kids who brought their lunch from home were “weird” and always eating things like whole wheat bread with some sort of healthy spread. I mean come on, who eats…healthy? 😉

Love the idea of using berries in place of the banana- genius 🙂

Yum! Like the coconut banana fudge but way better. You cannot go wrong with PB and J. As for school lunch, I brought my own everyday because I was a vegetarian kid. But sometimes, I’d order cheese fries from the little junk food diner in our cafeteria….

oh dear katie, thats fantastic! now we just need a PB and Banana/honey fudge.
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AH-MAZ-ING! These look so yummy! I love that they are pink too! 🙂

In elementary school, I was obsessed with peanut butter and banana sandwiches on whole wheat bread. In middle school, I went through a phase when I loved a cheddar sandwich on seedy flax bread. Oddly enough, my peanut butter and jelly sandwich phase came about in high school! I never ate cafeteria food as a kid. My mom always made me lunches filled with lots of different treats.

Katie this is such a cute treat! Can you taste the coconut at all?

And I honestly loved hot lunch — especially the tacos. I don’t know why I loved that “meat” so much. But if I did pack a lunch I’d bring PB&J — on toasted bread. That was so good!

Oh my goodness, so yummy.
I always ate peanut butter sandwiches at school. Still probably will once it starts up again.

Those look amazing! Peanut butter and jam sandwiches have been my favourite since I don’t know when…they’re amazing. Whoever came up with that combination may just be a genius!

I had school lunches for a little while, but I hated the fact that I was the only vegetarian kid in my school (and my family!). It also meant that if they cooked something fresh (very rare) I had it everyday for a week, blurgh!

I WANT THEM!!! Katie, your blog is the best one EVER!!!

Oh. My. Those would be the first thoughts that came to my mind when I saw this post. That fudge looks way to good to be healthy. As always, only a genius could do that so clearly you ARE a genius! 😀 Quick ?: Is that just plain ole’ peanut butter on top of the fudge?

For lunches, I usually take a sandwich (either peanut butter, pesto, sunbutter and cinnamon, or almond butter and cinnamon), a bag of raw veggies (at least that’s how my friends describe it), a piece of fruit, and a piece of unsweetened chocolate. 🙂 But I sometimes take almond butter pasta (or pesto pasta) with steamed broccoli or leftovers. I’ve never boughten lunch from the school, but I may have to someday just to see what it’s like 😉

And I definitely think your cookie dough recipes could be a trend someday. They all ready are at my house! 😉

Have a wonderful rest of the week, Katie!!

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I love how easy and delicious that looks! I really must bookmark it! 🙂

Mmm sounds delish! I think I need to find a hot date with some of that coconut butter you keep mentioning 😉

Hmm.. I haven’t thought about school lunch in a long time. In elementary school, my father would always pack my lunch. If I recall correctly, it was usually a white bread sandwich with peanut butter and jelly, or occasionally upon my request, pb and chocolate syrup. Along with a pudding cup, and some milk. In the upper grades (4-6), I would buy school lunch. I often went with pb and jelly, or the “sandwich of the day” which was usually some kind of meat + cheese combo. I don’t recall DISliking the food, but I wasn’t a picky eater either.

In junior high school, I got into the not-so-great habit of just visiting the “snack line” for a trio of cookies, or a soft pretzel, plus some kind of sugared fruity drink (think Sunny D).

In high school, I got into the probably-even-worse habit of skipping lunch altogether. It wasn’t until college that I became interested in nutrition in any form.

As far as this fudge goes, it sure it photogenic! But personally, I like to keep the elements of my desserts kind of separate. Like, a layer of pb fudge with a layer of fruit fudge. I just like being able clearly taste each part. I think that’s part of why I like Japanese food so much; the Japanese palate is the same way. They want all the elements separate so they can taste each flavor singularly or in whatever combination they choose.

I don’t like pb&j that much, but the chocolate fudgies are doing to me made some time soon!

I have never bought my lunch from school. Ever since 1st grade I, not my mom, have made my lunch. In grade school, raw Ramen packets and tuna with crackers were my staples. Middle school I was home-schooled, so I ate whatever I wanted at home. High school has been rough with lunches. I get made fun of for my weird dishes I bring to school. Sushi, tofu stirfry, grape leaves, and curries all get the “what on earth is that!” response, and then sometimes a “you are so weird!”. My food tastes so much better than the school lunches though,(sometimes my friends share) so I just let the comments roll off and enjoy my food!

I went to boarding school so I ate 3 meals a day at school! We had set places at tables with girls (all girls school) from different years at lunch, which was nice when we were tiny but lame when we got older (15 y/o do not care about the woes of 11 y/os) dinner and breakfast we were in year groups. School did AMAZING puddings (dead man’s leg w custard mmm) and a really nice (but not spicy) curry with peaches in it! Haslet however is probably one of the most horrible things I’ve EVER come across! I have fond memories of school dinners!

I made this fudge recipe exactly how it’s written, froze the fudge… It set or I thought it did but once being in the refrigerator for a few hours(to thaw to eat), it unset and was goopy. Do you have any advice to keep it set? Thanks!