Gut health & 30 plant points a week

[Barriehie]

No problem.

We often put nuts in stews. Cashews, peanuts and almonds work best. For us, we throw them in 30 minutes before the end/serving. Experiment and find out what works for you. I think the obit one we've not tried in a stew is hazelnut. They're very expensive in Australia and hard to obtain (which is a shame because i love them).

I've got a recipe on here somewhere for walnut and poppy seed dumplings in a bechamal sauce. The walnuts are ground (food processor). Recipe - Baked Walnut & Poppy Seed Dumplings with Béchamel But I think it would work with any ground nuts with a higher oil content like walnuts. Thinking about it, walnuts should cook well as well...

I've also got a walnut and mushroom dish I'm making for later in the week as well. The walnuts are chopped in a food processor to grind them for that as well.

We've got walnut trees all over the property but at this point the harvest season is over. I've never messed with them much given how arduous they are for the reward but the deer like them and I like the deer. Win win. (To have around.)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

OK - this is this week's food, pieced together from photos and recipes.
I think the 3 new recipes may have helped considerably this week. It is much more than I expected, but the meals on Monday & Wednesday nights helped considerably. where I had the same bread with linseed and soybeans for the entire week, I have counted the seeds but not the flour (that was a shop bought white flour sourdough with added extras). Likewise with the fresh coriander - I used the entire 125g bunch for 4 servings, so I have counted that as well. I have not counted anything I may or may not have munched on from the garden veg plot (no photos so no evidence to remind me of what I may or may not have eaten!

Day	What	Counts or not
Monday - Breakfast	Blueberries passion fruit mango nectarine black grapes	5
Monday - Lunch	peanut butter linseed/flax (in the bread - counting across entire week) soybeans (also in bread and ditto)	3
Monday - Tea	4 * varieties of mushrooms (lion's mane, shiitake, black woodear, shimeji) brown onion spring onion garlic carrot tomato cucumber green chillies tofu (counting as soy bean along with soy yoghurt)	12
Tuesday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Tuesday - lunch	nothing new	0
Tuesday - tea	wholemeal wheat flour	1
Wednesday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Wednesday - lunch	nothing new	0
Wednesday - tea	pinto beans chickpeas plum tomatoes 125g fresh coriander green capsicum pepper yellow capsicum pepper olives capers avocado (same tomatoes as Monday) (same cucumber as Monday) (same green chillies as Monday) chilli powder, ground cumin, ground coriander, Aleppo flakes (counting as 1 altogether)	10
Thursday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Thursday - lunch	nothing new	0
Thursday - tea	as per Wednesday - tea but with extra yellow tomatoes black tomatoes	2
Friday - breakfast	as per normal but with raspberries	1
Friday - lunch	nothing new	0
Friday - tea	cauliflower (in burger) (tofu, tomato, and cucumber already counted)	1
Saturday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Saturday - lunch	spelt flour Khorasan flour (avocado) (tofu) strawberries	3
Saturday - tea	burger (tomatoes) (cucumber)	0
Friday & Saturday snacks	vegetable crisps beetroot parsnip sweet potatoes tamari almonds	4 * 1/2
Sunday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Sunday - lunch	nothing new (spelt flour) (Khorasan flour) (avocado) (tofu) (strawberries)	0
Sunday - tea	eating out, so anyone's guess at the moment!
	total	40

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

We've got walnut trees all over the property but at this point the harvest season is over. I've never messed with them much given how arduous they are for the reward but the deer like them and I like the deer. Win win. (To have around.)

I would love to be able to grow walnuts... Wishful thinking there I fear.

We used to have a hazelnut grove when I was in the UK, but the grey squirrels always beat me to them. They were happy eating them before they were ripe! and despite having over an acre of them, I rarely got more than a handful.

I have managed to get 2 new apricot trees growing this year which will be brilliant if they survive transplanting.

 

[Barriehie]

OK - this is this week's food, pieced together from photos and recipes.
I think the 3 new recipes may have helped considerably this week. It is much more than I expected, but the meals on Monday & Wednesday nights helped considerably. where I had the same bread with linseed and soybeans for the entire week, I have counted the seeds but not the flour (that was a shop bought white flour sourdough with added extras). Likewise with the fresh coriander - I used the entire 125g bunch for 4 servings, so I have counted that as well. I have not counted anything I may or may not have munched on from the garden veg plot (no photos so no evidence to remind me of what I may or may not have eaten!

Day	What	Counts or not
Monday - Breakfast	Blueberries passion fruit mango nectarine black grapes	5
Monday - Lunch	peanut butter linseed/flax (in the bread - counting across entire week) soybeans (also in bread and ditto)	3
Monday - Tea	4 * varieties of mushrooms (lion's mane, shiitake, black woodear, shimeji) brown onion spring onion garlic carrot tomato cucumber green chillies tofu (counting as soy bean along with soy yoghurt)	12
Tuesday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Tuesday - lunch	nothing new	0
Tuesday - tea	wholemeal wheat flour	1
Wednesday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Wednesday - lunch	nothing new	0
Wednesday - tea	pinto beans chickpeas plum tomatoes 125g fresh coriander green capsicum pepper yellow capsicum pepper olives capers avocado (same tomatoes as Monday) (same cucumber as Monday) (same green chillies as Monday) chilli powder, ground cumin, ground coriander, Aleppo flakes (counting as 1 altogether)	10
Thursday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Thursday - lunch	nothing new	0
Thursday - tea	as per Wednesday - tea but with extra yellow tomatoes black tomatoes	2
Friday - breakfast	as per normal but with raspberries	1
Friday - lunch	nothing new	0
Friday - tea	cauliflower (in burger) (tofu, tomato, and cucumber already counted)	1
Saturday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Saturday - lunch	spelt flour Khorasan flour (avocado) (tofu) strawberries	3
Saturday - tea	burger (tomatoes) (cucumber)	0
Friday & Saturday snacks	vegetable crisps beetroot parsnip sweet potatoes tamari almonds	4 * 1/2
Sunday - breakfast	nothing new	0
Sunday - lunch	nothing new (spelt flour) (Khorasan flour) (avocado) (tofu) (strawberries)	0
Sunday - tea	eating out, so anyone's guess at the moment!
	total	40

Your spreadsheet isn't clickable as a picture, how did you do that please??? I put my browser in desktop mode and still didn't see a table option???

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Your spreadsheet isn't clickable as a picture, how did you do that please??? I put my browser in desktop mode and still didn't see a table option???

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[Barriehie]

 

[badjak]

I'm sure! I've not been able to find it in a store and shipping is beyond me. Kroger has them at about $1/oz. so it's on my tomorrow list.

Thank you SatNavSaysStraightOn

Buy fresh ones and pound them in the mortar & pestle...
And you can do the same with peanuts, cashews and so on.
Advantage over an electric grinder or food processer is that you got more control over the end result and it doesn't heat them up

 

[Barriehie]

Buy fresh ones and pound them in the mortar & pestle...
And you can do the same with peanuts, cashews and so on.
Advantage over an electric grinder or food processer is that you got more control over the end result and it doesn't heat them up

Only fresh nuts around here are peanuts. All others are already roasted, usually salted, and sometimes flavored. For the peanuts buying peanut butter is doable.

 

[badjak]

Only fresh nuts around here are peanuts. All others are already roasted, usually salted, and sometimes flavored. For the peanuts buying peanut butter is doable.

Roasted is not a problem. It will still work.
I would prefer unsalted and unflavoured though

 

[Z-Cook]

Only fresh nuts around here are peanuts. All others are already roasted, usually salted, and sometimes flavored. For the peanuts buying peanut butter is doable.

Unfortunately nuts are mainly treated as salted/sugared snacks over here and not really cooked with as an ingredient, and for the most part sold in small overpriced/overpackaged amounts.

The best place I've found for raw nuts in quantity and priced more sensibly - bearing in mind we're in a generally underserved ingredient location - is at membership places like Sam's club . Worth checking out if you know someone with membership if you don't want to fork out for it.

Almonds, almond flour and walnuts are around $4.5/lb. They also have almond butter in 2lb jars.

I get raw peanuts in bulk sections at places like Sprouts.

Worth buying online at places that offer free shipping for orders over a certain amount IMO.

 

[Z-Cook]

Which all ties into what foods people eat or still consider inside or outside of their acceptable food groups or groupings - many reflections of which can be seen in posts on the Then and Now thread.