How to make a peanut butter sandwich

How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich:

Materials: Spoon, butter knife, 2 slices of white bread, 1 jar of peanut butter, 1 jar of jelly, paper towel or small plate.

Take the slices of bread and place them side by side on either a paper towel or a small plate. Open the jar of jelly and stir the jelly with the spoon. Once jelly is at the proper consistency for spreading, place 1 piece of bread in one hand and spread desired amount of jelly with the other using the same spoon you stirred with and then place the bread jelly side up next to the other piece of bread. Put the spoon in kitchen sink when finished and close jar of jelly. Put the jelly back where it came from (usually the refrigerator).

Open the jar of peanut butter, place the other piece of bread that does not have jelly on it in one hand and butter knife in the other, extract desired amount of peanut butter from the peanut butter jar and spread onto the piece of bread that's in the other hand. Place peanut butter side of bread down on top of the other piece of bread that has the jelly side up, being careful not to squeeze any jelly out of the sides of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Close the jar of peanut butter and put the butter knife in the kitchen sink as well. Then put the peanut butter back where it came from.

Eat.

There are two reasons why I wanted to do this. The first is to try my hand at instructional writing again as it can be very difficult to do right if a person were to follow the instructions exactly. The other reason is to show how I like to minimalize mess when I make a PB&J. Notice the seperate utensils for the peanut butter and jelly. That way no jelly gets in the peanut butter jar and no peanut butter gets in the jelly jar. The reason for stirring the jelly is so that you don't tear the bread as you spread the jelly, which is usually kept in the refrigerator making it more difficult to spread since the cold makes certain liquids more viscous. The plate or paper towel is used to catch any crumbs that come off the bread and also to catch any jelly that comes out the sides of the sandwich.