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    Home » Recipes » Snacks

    Peanut Butter & Dill Pickle Sandwich

    February 10, 2014 • Updated: March 9, 2022 • by Renée B. • This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Peanut Butter, Dill Pickle, and Miracle Whip‽ Together‽ On one sandwich‽ YES!!! It may sound weird, but give it a chance! This PB-MW-DP Sandwich may become your favorite, too! 

    PB DP MW Sandwich
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    • What's the Story Behind this Recipe?
    • Feeding One Child for One Day
    • What Goes into this Sandwich
    • Recipe Notes
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    • Peanut Butter Dill Pickle Sandwich

    What's the Story Behind this Recipe?

    I pack Mr. B and the girls their lunches nearly every morning. Mr. B's customarily takes a cup of Tillamook yogurt, a piece of fruit, and some kind of leftovers to heat up in the microwave at work. The girls most often get a “cold lunch”: a sandwich or other hand-held high-protein item, fruit, nuts or a granola bar, maybe some yogurt, and a little treat. Nothing fancy, but nutritious and hearty enough to get them through the day. 

    There are kids in their schools who go hungry though. Each of my five girls, at one time or another, have told me about kids they know who don’t have anything to eat for lunch. Kids they share their lunches with.

    I don’t understand, what with free lunches being so easy to qualify for and all, how this happens, but on many occasions over the years I’ve packed a child of mine a much more substantial lunch than usual, because I know it will be shared with someone who needs it. I can’t fix the bigger problem of childhood hunger by myself, but I can help one kid for one day.

    Snoopy Lunchbox
    The lunchbox I carried to school when I was in 1st grade!

    Personally, I’ve never known real hunger. I did not know, when I was a child, how precariously close our budget balanced on the line. I did not notice, back then, how my mother picked the big pieces of tuna out of our casserole and set them carefully on my plate saying she didn’t want them, or how she made a pot roast last for four or five meals.

    I did not know that other people didn’t have chipped beef on rice three or four times a month. Still, First World problems. We always had something to eat. We weren’t rich by American standards, but we were by most of the rest of world’s – there was never a day in my childhood when I didn’t know where my next meal was coming from.

    Hunger, though, was only a generation away. My father, a Depression era migrant child straight out of The Grapes of Wrath, knew hunger often. He told me with no self-indulgence of many times going to bed without anything to eat, and watching his mother scrape and scrimp and go without to feed her children. He made me understand, as I grew older, just how lucky – how bless – our family was.

    Feeding One Child for One Day

    Today’s post is all about feeding one child for one day - or a hundred for a year: it’s your call. Because this post is dedicated to The Lunch Box Fund.

    The Lunchbox Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a daily meal for extremely poor and at-risk school children in South Africa. A country where more than 35% of the population is devastated by poverty and AIDS. These children, if properly nourished in body and mind, have the potential to change their lives - and their country - for the better.

    What Goes into this Sandwich

    There are four ingredients in this sandwich:

    • White bread
    • Peanut butter (Skippy or Jif are best)
    • Miracle Whip (not mayo!)
    • Dill pickles

    No substitutions.

    I know what you are probably thinking, so I'm just asking - give this PDM sandwich a chance! (I like it best with home-canned dills - specifically spicy garlic dills!)

    Recipe Notes

    Many years ago, I had a birth-family reunion. The first time we got the whole family together, we had a picnic at Multnomah Falls, and it was there that I learned that my first-mom and I share this unusual favorite sandwich.

    I mean, really - ask 100 people what their favorite cold sandwich is. How many do you think will say that it's PB, dill pickle & Miracle Whip? Not many, I guarantee!

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    Peanut Butter Dill Pickle Sandwich

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    Ingredients

    • Peanut Butter
    • Dill Pickle Sliced the long way
    • Miracle Whip
    • Bread

    Instructions

    • Spread peanut butter on one slice of bread.
    • Layer pickle slices on the bread to cover bread.
    • Spread Miracle Whip on the other slice of bread and put it all together. 
    • Enjoy!
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    Renée is writer, music maker, artist, and storyteller. In her spare time, you can find her writing love songs about cowboys, exploring the moss-covered nooks and crannies of the Pacific Northwest, and making music with her talented singer-husband.

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    1. Autism United says

      February 12, 2014 at 11:44 am

      Our school has a breakfast program so that at least the kids are getting a hot breakfast, but still no assistance for lunches. I send my kids with extra in their lunches too (for sharing) and my one child says his teacher always has extra too and they do like a little buffet each day in class during lunch. Isn't that great.
      Charity starts at home and I wish more would participate in helping at a family level.

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    2. Carol says

      February 11, 2014 at 11:51 am

      PB Pickles and miracle whip sounds gross but, I am going to try it. My mama always said
      don't knock it until you try it. besides that as my daughter in law you are a fantastic cook!!!!! Love you!

      Reply
      • Renée ♥ says

        February 12, 2014 at 7:50 pm

        Love you, Mama. ♥

        Reply
    3. pech says

      February 10, 2014 at 8:11 pm

      What a great post that has a little bit of everything- a little storytelling of you, some reminiscing of childhood lunches (I loved cold pizza), some inspiration for more lunch possibilities, and highlighting a great cause!

      Reply
    4. Sarah M. says

      February 10, 2014 at 2:13 pm

      PB & Pickles is my favorite sandwich, too!!! We weren't a Miracle Whip family, though, so I've never tried that. Nowadays I make it a little fancier with PB & Kurry Kraut. YUM! Thanks for sharing this wonderful charity. 🙂

      Reply
    5. Yvonne @ Dress This Nest says

      February 10, 2014 at 10:48 am

      This is such a great program! No kid should go hungry. When we lived in Santa Monica, they even had a free lunch program for kids during the summer. They had bag lunches that anyone could pick up at the local parks. It's great to see things like this being offered abroad.

      Reply

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