True Confessions

There is a backstory to Don Quixote...the nut butter company I mean, not the man of La Mancha. I often refer to "we" when I write about the goings-on at Don Quixote, but it is really just "I."

Don Quixote is truly a small company, a one-man company at this point in time. Each jar of nut butter you buy has been ground on a machine, but after that, every other stage of its production is done by hand. Yep...my hands (in sterile gloves) fill the jars, adjust the contents to the correct one-pound weight, screw on the lid, induction seal the lid one-at-a-time, put on the label, add the lid sticker, place the safety seal band around the lid, and shrink it tight with a heat gun.

I disassemble, clean and sterilize the machine after each production run. The parts are sterilized again and reassembled prior to the next production run. It is work that must be done to turn the premium nuts I buy into the tastiest nut butters. 

I do it because I want to. I hope to become successful enough that I can actually employ other people. I started Don Quixote to augment my Social Security and my wife's work income while having fun making great-tasting, nutritious nut butters. However, I have no advertising budget for the company, which slows growth. (I have lots of ideas for the future!)

So if you like Don Quixote Spanish Peanut Butter and/or any of my other varieties of nut butters, please tell a friend to visit my Shopify store. It will mean a great deal to me.

Thank you and very best regards,

Mark Timon, M.S. Clinical Nutrition