Trader Joe’s Organic Chia Seeds
“TALK ABOUT A POWERHOUSE”
I eat chia seeds every day. If you aren’t eating chia seeds by now, perhaps you should be. You’ve no doubt heard about them and what a superfood chia seeds are with all of it’s health benefits including actually lowering your blood pressure. Wow.
These teeny, tiny blacks seeds are simply a powerhouse; packed with protein and Omega 3’s and other goodies. When soaked in liquid the seeds both swell up and gel up absorbing twenty seven times their weight in water.
They are especially great for adding to smoothies, cereal, pancakes or drinks. They can be used as a natural thickener. The seeds are so tiny they have a tendency to go everywhere and I do mean everywhere so be very careful when you use these. If you spill these, well they are a real pain to clean up. Get them wet and they stick to everything. So don’t wet them. If you do spill them just try to brush them or vacuum them up and good luck with that…!)
TIP: Rather than this bag they come in, I pour the seeds into a small glass jar (with a little coffee scoop) and just use that as its much easier to handle, than opening and closing this bag all the time.
I usually mix them into soy milk, oat milk or kefir. Leave them a few minutes to absorb the liquid. They will swell up in 5-10 minutes. Then I add them to my yogurt/kefir/soy milk liquid.
A 12 oz bag of TJ’s Chia Seeds is $4.99. $5.49 (they went up AGAIN a 3rd time! Now $5.99!!)
Ingredients: Organic Chia Seeds
PRODUCT OF PARAGUAY
Trader Joe’s sells a number of super food seeds including chia seeds, flax seeds, a mix of chia and flax, as well as hemp seeds. All of these are good for you and are things you can easily incorporate into your diet, daily, especially I think at breakfast where you can add 1 or 2 tablespoons into your cereal, yogurt or smoothie. Try CHIA SEED PUDDING; very easy and very good! (another one in link below)
Trader Joe’s carries a lot of “powerhouse seeds” like CHIA, FLAX and HEMP SEEDS. My Trader Joe’s has a “Smoothies Section” featuring all of these plus other products to make smoothies (protein powders, etc)
https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-chia-seeds
CHIA SEED PUDDING
https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/3-ingredient-chia-pudding/
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