Is peanut butter and jelly sandwitch a snack or a lunch.?!


Question: I have a doubt and say peanut butter and jelly sandwitches are more of a snack then Lunch. who agrees or disagrees and why??


Answers: I have a doubt and say peanut butter and jelly sandwitches are more of a snack then Lunch. who agrees or disagrees and why??

With whole grain bread providing at least 4 grams of fiber, unsweetened all fruit spread providing fruit sugars for energy and vitamin c, and natural peanut butter providing protein and good fats plus plenty of long lasting calories, it's a meal!
Now if you use those name brand peanut butter spreads that have had the good fat replaced with partially hydrogenated crap, with the usual jelly which is nothing but sugar water, and the typical white bread containing no fiber at all and is just simple junky carbs, then it is a high calorie snack.

in my house its both

I say a snack because my lunch consists of at least a main dish and two sides.

yea hes right thats wat i do cause its so good and when i was little that was was lunch at my school

i think its a snack as lunch should be a meal with veg ect but everyone is different thats just my opinion. x

It's both !...

Natural peanut butter, that is, without the hydrogenation/trans fats added, is very nutritious, although a little high in fat. It makes an excellent meal between two slices of whole grain bread and a tasty light spread of all-fruit type product that's low in added sugar.

So, definitely a lunch or light dinner--and even breakfast. I often pack a peanut-butter-only sandwich on toast and take it to work for breakfast at my desk, if I am running late at home in the morning.

I have peanut butter several times a week, but I am careful to keep the servings measured, so I don't over-do on the calories from the good fats.

Nutritional foods are nutritional foods, and the only difference about how and when they are eaten is CULTURAL. Maybe your family habit/learning/culture has been to eat this only as a snack. There's really no right or wrong answer to this question, only opinions based on local culture. If someone else tells you it's only appropriate for a snack, then that's true for that person. Not right or wrong.

In Asia, maybe they don't eat peanut butter on bread at all. Peanut butter and peanuts are added to meat dishes in Asia. Yum! They add protein and good fats and taste to the dish. Cultural! So, in my opinion, peanut butter and jelly is appropriate for breakfast, lunch, snack, or light dinner!

Of course, this is all assuming no peanut allergy.

its both and ab fab as well mmmmm

it is a snack because a snack is a type of food not meant to be eaten as a main meal of the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) but one that is intended rather to assuage a person's hunger between these meals, providing a brief supply of energy for the body, or as a food item consumed between meals purely for the enjoyment of its taste.

a lunch lunch, is a midday meal that is meant to eliminate hunger completly for that time.

both.... depends on if it's eaten alone or with something like soup, chips and a piece of fruit. That makes it a lunch.

it is a snack

Peanut butter has some nutritional value I think. Jelly I believe has nearly none. Good bread could make a difference.

Mmmmm. I'd vote snack.

i would say both because it is so good to have as lunch and a snack.

wow....maybe you should just eat it and not worry haha... either way its good

defineatly snack

At my house lunch, my 10 and 3 yr olds love them with an apple cut up and some carrots

I can have it for lunch or a snack ............ so it is both! I feel the same way about cereal ..... it can be a meal (breakfast) or I can have it as a snack (at bedtime) ...... I do both!





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