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SEEDS & NUTS

I make my breakfast cereal with nuts ,blasted in the food mixer,I add a table spoon full of oats a tablespoon full of ground linseed and a teaspoon full of sultanas in my bowl and add full fat milk.
I do enough nuts for a week.
 
There's a useful nut information chart here that's worth checking out: http://www.builtlean.com/2013/07/31/calories-nuts-chart/ (It lists the nuts in alphabetical order)

Chestnuts are very high in carbs and very low in fats, cashews are high in both - and though these are some of my favourite buts, I try not to eat too many cashews and avoid chestnuts completely!

I eat walnuts in salads, roast a selection of several different ones (e.g. walnuts, pecans, pine nuts) with sea salt and walnut oil in the microwave to eat for breakfast or supper, and use ground almonds, pecans and hazel nuts (these last two I grind in my coffee grinder) to bake with instead of flour. Hazelnuts with cocoa make good choccie muffins, and I use pecans and ground almonds as the basis for carrot cake type muffins. Ground almonds are really good baking all-rounders.

Flaxseed is also good (in combination with ground alnonds) for baking or sprinkling on stuff .

Mine all come from Tesco, except the flaxseed which I get from Amazon.

Robbity
 
Robbity said:
There's a useful nut information chart here that's worth checking out: http://www.builtlean.com/2013/07/31/calories-nuts-chart/ (It lists the nuts in alphabetical order)

Chestnuts are very high in carbs and very low in fats, cashews are high in both - and though these are some of my favourite buts, I try not to eat too many cashews and avoid chestnuts completely!

I eat walnuts in salads, roast a selection of several different ones (e.g. walnuts, pecans, pine nuts) with sea salt and walnut oil in the microwave to eat for breakfast or supper, and use ground almonds, pecans and hazel nuts (these last two I grind in my coffee grinder) to bake with instead of flour. Hazelnuts with cocoa make good choccie muffins, and I use pecans and ground almonds as the basis for carrot cake type muffins. Ground almonds are really good baking all-rounders.

Flaxseed is also good (in combination with ground alnonds) for baking or sprinkling on stuff .

Mine all come from Tesco, except the flaxseed which I get from Amazon.

Robbity
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Thanks for the link will make an interesting read.
 
Snowy12 said:
Anyone know what Macadamia nuts are I have never heard of them before?
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Years ago I had a friend in Hawaii that used to send tins of them to me and I really enjoyed them, but I later discovered they are dangerous to dogs, so won't have them in the house now.

They are a bit like hazelnuts in shape, but I can't actually remember any more what they taste like...

I know they were a big business crop in Hawaii, but I 'm not sure that they are actually a native crop there. Have a look what Google has to say about them if no-one else can help?

Robbity
 
noblehead said:
Not at all, try them yourself you may like them, we all have different tastes when it comes to food :)
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A new health shop has just opened near me holland and Barrett so will see what they look like first,before I make any rash decisions,you never know I may like them.
 
Robbity said:
Years ago I had a friend in Hawaii that used to send tins of them to me and I really enjoyed them, but I later discovered they are dangerous to dogs, so won't have them in the house now.

They are a bit like hazelnuts in shape, but I can't actually remember any more what they taste like...

I know they were a big business crop in Hawaii, but I 'm not sure that they are actually a native crop there. Have a look what Google has to say about them if no-one else can help?

Robbity
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Thank you shall have a read up on them I am all curious now.
 
You've had two widely differing opinions now haven't you!! :p

I love hazelnuts but recently had a pack from tesco that were vile (super hard and tasteless, probably stale), and had i not known better they would have put me off for life.

Robbity
 
Robbity said:
You've had two widely differing opinions now haven't you!! :p

I love hazelnuts but recently had a pack from tesco that were vile (super hard and tasteless, probably stale), and had i not known better they would have put me off for life.

Robbity
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Lol yes I certainly have,now I think I will have to try them.
 

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