Side Orders: Unique ways to utilize peanut butter

With kids back in school and lunchboxes being packed by the thousands, it comes as no surprise that August and September are the biggest months for sales of peanut butter.

“This is clearly linked to school resuming,” says Leslie Wagner, executive director of Southern Peanut Growers, an organization founded in 1980 to educate consumers about the U.S. peanut industry and its products.

Anne Braly

Spreading Creamy Peanut Butter on a Slice of Bread

Southern Peanut Growers represents peanut farmers in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi who grow about 1.1 million tons of peanuts for peanut butter each year.

Here are a couple of facts you may never have known, according to Wagner:

* It takes 720 peanuts to make a 16-ounce jar of peanut butter, the most commonly purchased size.