Comments on: Nuts To You!

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:08:14 +0000

I’ve restricted myself so far to Cashews (too expensive, so hubby won’t let me buy them), Macadamia (WAY too expensive, but since Atkins mentions them I’m allowed to get them LOL), and sunflower seeds. I’ve been doing exactly what you did, counting out the serving (1 oz is 16? 14? pieces, can’t remember off hand) and putting away the rest. It works! As for the sunflower seeds, I only put 1 or 2 tbsp on a salad. If I ate them out of the bag, they’d all be gone.

Frozen nuts in Western NY! LOL!

By: Megamas

Megamas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:20:01 +0000

The only frozen nuts I’ve run into are the ones here in Western New York! BBRRRRR!

By: Cindy Moore

Cindy Moore — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:22:19 +0000

LOL this is a good one!!

I am also a major nut lover and have then probably at least 5 days of the week (including peanuts). In the past I’ve bought several bags, cans, of different nuts and mixed them myself. I split them into batches of 4-6 servings and vac wrap them and freeze. I get only the nuts I want and it’s less expensive. When I’d open a bag of them, I’d put them in a plastic freezer container and keep them frozen, I don’t care for most nuts frozen, so I always had to thaw them before eating.

By: Scalemistress

Scalemistress — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:25:41 +0000

Thought might like this link to a deal on almonds.

By: Megamas

Megamas — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:29:24 +0000

Yep, that’s what I thought.

By: Megamas

Megamas — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:29:01 +0000

Scalemistress, you mean the cans that are now a two month supply? (LOL) Years ago I tried the trick of bringing the can home, weighing out one ounce portions and putting them in little baggies. Then I’d wind up eating more than one bag anyway! So hard to stop eating them. This sale was terrible, they are usually upward of $4 a can, but they were on sale for $2.39, and I had two coupons each worth 75 cents on two cans that got doubled, so each can netted out at $1.64… so you can see why I HAD to buy them!

By the way, this is my first crack at using the XHTML tags, so if anything winds up being goofy looking instead of BOLD as I wanted, that’s why.

By: Scalemistress

Scalemistress — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:52:29 +0000

This made me laugh! I am so addicted to nuts and I love the Blue Diamond Smokehouse almonds I buy the giant container at BJs because they are so expensive in the supermarket. But I have NO willpower and always eat more than I should. I will have to try that counting out servings thing. Thanks for the tip! Hope it works for you on the rest of those cans.