I bought peanut butter...

...and it is so good!

I went a whole ten weeks without eating a single morsel of peanut butter, which is usually part of my daily diet. I had sort of made a resolution that I wouldn't eat it while in Chile. The Chileans don't eat it, it's in the "foreign foods" section, and I thought I would feel cool if I could say "Oh, yeah, peanut butter isn't that hard to find in Chile, but I didn't buy any while I was there..." (note: why did I think this sounded particularly cool? anyway...) Honestly, I didn't really think about it that much.

Yesterday, I decided that I should just go ahead and buy some. Since I'm now cooking for myself, my meat/ protein intake is down, and it would be fun to share something so "American" with my host family. So I bought it. And in less than 30 hours I've eaten about half of the jar (note: jar is small, because it's a "foreign food"... but still). Must be my body's/ my appetite's evolutionary reaction to scarcity. Anyway, if I don't want to die from a heart attack, I think my peanut-butter-buying days are over. I can learn to eat it appropriately when I return to the States...