Hi all,

Peanut butter. Oh, joy.

Here's how to eat all the peanut butter you want.

A few years ago, I loaded up my bicycle with tent, sleeping bag, and panniers and peddled across America, east to west. My iron rations were a loaf of the toughest bread I could find and a jar of peanut butter. Unfortunately, real peanut butter (ingredient: peanuts) usually came in glass jars, so I rode on Jiff. Comes in plastic jars and is the best non-real peanut butter.

A woman I met later sent me a snapshot taken at Hoosier Pass. Even loaded with all the camping stuff, my bike looks lean and mean. And I'm as skinny as I ever want to be. My favorite picture. I'm sitting on a rock shelf, and the sign reads: "Hoosier Pass, elevation 11,542 feet, continental divide."

Even with a Lipton one pot meal -- rice or noodles -- at night in your cookpot, you can't eat enough calories to keep from losing weight. You've heard about Jonny Appleseed? Well, those big purple plumbs were on sale at country markets that summer, and I will go down in history as "Larry plumb seed." Or stone.

Highly recommended.