It might still be winter, but I have found some Sun

I first encountered Sunbutter in an United Airlines snack box along with dried fruit and crackers, and it made me wonder why airline food is usually so horrible. We just need to go ahead and accept that a mile off the ground is not the time to share a hot meal with a few hundred other passengers. There are plenty of great camping snacks more suitable to the circumstances, so lets embrace the ruggedness of commercial air and enjoy the best trail mix possible. JetBlue has embraces this philosophy with great snacks and no meals. If you want a burger (and you are lucky(?) enough to be flying out of LAX) get yourself an In-n-Out for the road. (Oh man, I could go for a grilled cheese about now. I could also go for some warm California sun, I guess I have the end of winter blues.)

Sunbutter is great. Yes, like most processed peanut butters, it has some added sugar and an emulsifier. But it is totally craveable, and there are no unprocessed options, so I choose to overlook that. Try it on an apple for dessert or a salty cracker for lunch. Yum, yum Sunbutter. And from the sunflower seed, who knew!

As a foil to A-rod, sunflower seeds are a pretty lame part of Baseball that turn out to have to have secret appeal. They usually come salted and in the shell. They are a huge pain to eat, but you do consume your fiber for the week. Or, you can spit out the shell and leave a huge mess. I find this is overwhelmingly the technique of the guy sitting next to me at Mets games. Its pretty gross to then step over a huge pile of shells covered in someone else's spit. Eww.

But it turns out that sunflower seeds clean up real nice after the game. My new favorite food is choclate covered sunflower seeds. They are like mini, oblong M&Ms, but even better. They taste like a slightly upscale peanut butter M&M. You are thinking, well that can't be improved upon. Well it can, its called a Sunny Seed Drop and it is delicious.