Simple, Healthy, Non-Dairy Spread

I used to be the cook for the local day care center for babies and toddlers from 3 months to three years old.  I did this for at least four years.  At the same time I was the girls gym teacher.  The logistics could be very complicated, but I liked having two totally different jobs.  I guess my extra weight, which eventually put me in the obese category, began piling on after I stopped those jobs.

Some of the food I cooked was my usual recipes from home and others I learned or adapted from professional lessons they arranged for us.

One thing I learned was Halva Spread.  Halva is sweetened sesame seeds made into a "candy."  As candies go, it's pretty healthy.  We were taught how to take the ground unflavored seeds, sold in many stores for techina and turn it into a spread, good for sandwiches or for spreading on crackers.

This is really easy, just three ingredients of similar quantities.  Don't obsess over measuring exactly.  You may like it sweeter or less so, more liquidy or more solid.  You won't get arrested for playing with the proportions.

• unflavored sesame paste
• honey
• boiling water

Mix them all together, and that's it.  It sure beats peanut-butter and jelly, the sweet sandwiches of my childhood.