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Who doesn’t love peanut butter sandwiches? They are simple, basic and yet always bring back good memories. Making your own peanut butter is actually pretty simple and rewarding as peanut butter sandwiches might be the most popular lunch for kids (and adults) of all options.

Want to learn how to make your own peanut butter? Keep reading!

First thing you need to do is go get some peanuts. You have two options here. You can buy roasted peanuts (which you basically just paid a little more to do something you could have done yourself) or buy peanuts and roast them yourself. Roasting your own peanuts is easy. All you need to do is crank on your oven to 350 degrees. Crack open all of the peanuts and remove them from their shells. You should have 4 cups of peanuts when all said and done. Take all of the nuts and spread them evenly out across a baking pan and let them bake in the over between 15 and 20 minutes.

Once they have cooled or if you bought roasted peanuts, take ½ of your peanuts, 1 and ½ teaspoons of peanut oil and grind them in a food processor for a few minutes until the blend is clumpy. At this point put in the other ½ of peanuts and another 1 and ½ teaspoons of peanut oil and again, blend. At this point keep blending until you reached the texture you like. If you want chunky peanut butter you may only blend for a little while but if you like to make your own creamy peanut butter then you might blend a little longer. Once you have achieved the texture you like, add 1 teaspoon of salt and blend for one minute to mix it in.

That is it! Doesn’t take long and shouldn’t make a mess out of your kitchen. Keep in mind, your homemade peanut butter that you just created does not have preservatives so it will not stay as long as the store bought kind. It should be consumed within two weeks and keep it refrigerated.

This goes great if you make your own jam as well!