The Peanut Butter Factory
Mickey, Carol, and Rick worked on a new idea for a missions effort we wanted to test for our classmates. We think it might be great to make 150 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches during your birthday week to deliver to the Day Center for the Homeless. Carol took pictures.
Ingredients:
14 loaves of bread (22 slices) $1.99 ea found on North wall @ Costco
200 oz. Peanut Butter spread $9.99 for 2 28 oz. aisle 311
200 oz. Strawberry spread $6.99 ea for 42 oz. aisle 311
150 Ziploc baggies $11.49 for 580 aisle 324
We set up an assembly line on the kitchen counter. Mickey was on one end with 7 loaves of bread and the peanut butter spread. The spread is easier to put on than normal peanut butter as it has more oil in it. 1.3 ounces of peanut butter is a generous helping. I was at the other end of the counter with the jelly, doing the same thing with 7 loaves of bread. We would smear our ingredients on with big spoons and pass them to the middle of the counter. Carol would slap them together, put them in a Ziploc bag, and put the completed individually-wrapped sandwiches back into the bread wrappers for hauling. They don’t all fit in the bread wrappers, we also needed a couple of boxes for hauling the sandwiches.
The three of us were able to assemble 150 sandwiches in 1-3/4 hours.
Mickey and I went to Costco again to get the ingredients needed for the next assembly team and to get prices of everything. The total expense is about $100 for 150 sandwiches. We took them to the Day Center at about 1pm, and the lady there met us at the kitchen door. She said “We will distribute these right now. We could use these every day”. She was very appreciative. The Day Center is just West of Denver on Archer St.
We have the ingredients except the bread for whoever wants to be next “chefs”.
Rick
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