I could have fried up a burger or two. I could’ve boiled some ramen noodles. I could’ve heated up a can of something in the microwave. Instead, I decided to indulge yet another of my little quirky, guilty pleasures: Peanut butter and crackers.

There’s a procedure to it, of course.

1. Gather ingredients: Less than half of a sleeve of saltines, jar of peanut butter.
2. Gather implements: Small plate, butter knife.
3. Arrange crackers on plate either in a gracefully-knocked-over stack or (my personal favorite) in two-cracker stacks.
4. Get the right amount of peanut butter onto the knife. Enough for the crackers to stick together, not so much that you get peanut butter squirting out of the crackers’ holes to make a big mess. If you do it right, you get just a bit of peanut butter through the holes for an amusing visual effect.
5. Use the dab of peanut butter on the knife to pick up the top cracker from one of the stacked pairs, then you get to hold the cracker in your fingers while you swirl and spread the peanut butter around like a normal person.
6. Pick up the other cracker of the pair and make a sandwich.
7. Munch.
8. Return to step 1 until out of crackers.

Today wasn’t a bad day, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have a comfort food night anyway. Right?