Posted on 09/12/2011 5:47:56 PM PDT by djf
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – You may see fewer peanuts on grocery store shelves this year and will likely pay more for peanut butter.
The US Department of Agriculture estimates this year's peanut crop could be 13 percent smaller than last year's because many farmers in Georgia and Texas have lost their crops to dry and hot weather conditions.
Many farmers in our area believe the demand for peanuts could help the local economy, despite also suffering a loss.
Some peanut butter companies have already raise their prices by a least 50 cents.
Yes, I have. My dogs LOVE peanut butter!
Your right, when I first gave them some, I rubbed it on the roof of their mouths and they did the same as your pup did.
But I think they have mastered how to eat it now, as they can lap it up with ease.
Try putting a dab on the dog’s nose sometime. Talk about cheap entertainment and the dog likes it.
LOL! Memories of cleaning up a few diaper loads of that magnitude.
“I use it occasionally and have about 6 pounds in storage for SHTF.”
How long does peanut butter keep?
“Ever give peanut butter to a dog?”
They’ll keep coming back for more. After the 4th time though they’ll start whining due to tongue cramps but that doesn’t stop them from wanting even more.
“Peanut buttering a dog” is the verb.
You love peanuts but post a picture of almonds?
What almonds? I posted pecans!
“I use it occasionally and have about 6 pounds in storage for SHTF.”
How long does peanut butter keep?
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Use it to bait traps for edible small mammals - mice, squirrels, etc.
Not sure exactly. I think all processed foods have by default a one year expiration date on the label, but as has been pointed out many times, if the food is sealed properly and unopened, and kept cool and dry, decades are not out of the question.
Even a year old opened container can be consumed if kept covered. Add a little sea salt and stir generously, then enjoy. An unopened jar has an expiration date printed on it, but if unopened it lasts perhaps three times as long as the expiration date. The taste falls off due to a change in the oil which makes it smell and taste a bit ‘stale’, so the sea salt revives the flavor.
I know pecans. Those are almonds in your post.
I grow both on my farm (plus grapes and raisins), and I know the nuts, I think!
I know almonds ... some of my friends are almonds. Remember that ad for Almond joy and Mounds (”sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t”)? well, folks at FR say I’m a cranky old crazy man, and I have frienmds who’re almonds, so I know nuts.
Try cashew butter. You’ll never eat peanut butter again.
Most of your “mainstream” peanut butter brands remove the natural peanut oil, replace it with saturated fat and sugar, then sell the peanut oil separately.
The real deal is the stuff where the oil separates from the peanuts in the jar. It has a much more distinctive peanut flavor and is excellent for sandwiches and sauces. The trick is to store the jar upside down or on it’s side until you’re ready to use it, then stir it and keep it in the fridge. I buy large jars (Adams is good) and dump it into the mixer, then put it back in the jar.
The big glass jars when empty come in handy in the kitchen for storage, and in the shop for solvents.
I wandered out of Sam’s one day with two large jugs of mixed bean salad (gallon plus jugs) ... great jars for solvent cleaning of gun parts AND for pickling eggs.
Sir, I've served pecans. I know pecans. Pecans were a food of mine. Those, sir, are no pecans.
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