Our November/December Crazy Cook is Lauren

Nanci's note: Maybe if I have my daughter, Becky, read this she won't be asking me to make Frozen Peanut Butter Bars once a week☺

I made a freezer full of meals and realized I didn't make any snacky treats! That just wouldn't do so today I decided to make a triple batch of the peanut butter bars. I got all the butter/margarine into a big dutch oven and was ready to measure out the peanut butter. I went to the cupboard and found only one small (16oz) jar of PB, uh oh. I went to the frig and found two partially full jars of all natural peanut butter. Still not enough but a start. More searching scored me two jars of almond butter and a half jar of cashew butter. What the heck, I NEED something sweet, this WILL work. I got it all measured out and plopped into the pan.

I measured out the powdered sugar and then went for the graham crumbs. Uh oh, no graham crumbs! That's ok, I am a do it from scratch kinda gal, I can make graham crumbs. Down on my knees with a flashlight looking for those last few boxes of whole wheat graham crackers from the co-op. I finally found them and ripped into them and started feeding them into my vita-mix. My son was helping and he said they smelled funny. I have a cold so I can't smell a thing. I thought maybe he forgot what the healthy graham crackers smell like. They are whole grain and made with molasses and have a different taste than regular ones. Besides I must have ten pounds combined of butter and nut butters sitting on my stove, these graham crackers are FINE! I pureed one package at a time then measured it and let my son dump it into a big bowl with the powdered sugar. He was holding a cloth napkin over his nose while he doing it. I just rolled my eyes and kept on making crumbs. I grabbed the last package of crackers and ripped it open and dropped them into the vita-mix. At that point I realized there was smear of something on my thumb. Just as I was about to lick what I thought was nut butter off my thumb I noticed someting out of the corner of my eye. Something...moving. Something moving and something webby. A webby cocoon thingy and a wiggly little critter on the inside of the wrapper for the crackers. On closer inspection the smear on my thumb was sorta wet and webby too. THE CRACKERS HAVE CRITTERS! ACK! Now I have a bowl full of pureed graham crackers and critter cocoons and 10 pounds of BUTTERS on the stove! Thank goodness we didn't mix the crumbs into the butters as we were grinding them! I lost the powdered sugar and of course the cracker crumbs had to be dumped. I had to load four kids up and run to the market for FRESH graham crumbs. Our bars are done. My kids are grateful that I opted for the LOWER protien bars :) My oldest son was calling them fear factor bars.

Hope someone got a chuckle out of it, it took me a few hours to get over it!