A few months ago, I was traveling with my family in a remote location where there weren't many food options.
To prevent my children and wife from becoming "hangry," we bought a premade lunch consisting of fresh bread, peanut butter, and jelly.
Having not had this combination for decades, I was less than thrilled with our lunch options....until I took my first bite!
Despite the 100 percent humidity and blazing hot temperatures, I took a reluctant bite out of my now soggy sandwich and found the combination of sweet and salty to be nothing short of perfect.
I couldn't imagine anything better until I returned to work and saw a box of Peanut Butter & Jelly M&M's Chocolate Candies sitting on my desk!
Peanut butter has long been a staple ingredient in candy.
Some of the best-selling - and best-tasting - candies in the world, such as Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and M&M's Peanut, feature this flavor. It seems only natural to expand upon it.
Peanut butter offers a rich, creamy, and nutty flavor, while the different fruit jelly flavors provide a tart, balanced sweetness. Combining the two flavors made perfect sense even if you weren't raised on PB&J sandwiches!
In this new M&M release, the jelly flavor is Grape - a personal favorite on this end and the flavor that we enjoyed on our hike - but depending on the batch, it could also be Strawberry or Raspberry, which adds an element of surprise to each bite.
These tasty flavor combinations are wrapped in a crunchy candy shell and the classic milk chocolate that candy lovers around the globe know and love.
It's a grown-up version of your childhood sandwich, but portable, poppable, and "melt in your mouth, not in your hands," heat-resistant. They are also OU Dairy Kosher Certified!
No corner or crust-cutting is required.
While many of the obscure candy flavors are released as a Limited Edition, much to our surprise, M&M's Peanut Butter & Jelly has become a permanent card-carrying member of the illustrious M&M clan.
There is not much more to say other than that these are a welcome addition to one of our most popular candies and would be well appreciated in any lunchbox. too.
