Healthy Snacks

Munching on nuts and seeds is the healthiest snacking ever, for both adults and kids. I was at Village Grocer and bought these:

Pine nuts. Cost almost RM20 for a small box. Freaking expensive!

Walnuts. This brand of sugar-free roasted walnuts produced by VitaWide Trading is by far the tastiest – the walnuts are really crunchy and there is no rancid taste. It’s pretty hard to buy sugar-free walnuts that taste fresh and crunchy. What turns me off is biting on a walnut that is bitter and has a rancid smell. Walnuts that are dark colored are normally bitter and taste rancid.

BTW, did you know that cold is the walnuts’ best storage friend? Walnuts go rancid when exposed to warm temperatures for long periods of time. Refrigerator storage is good, but if you have larger quantities, freezer storage is best. Walnuts from opened packages keep well for up to six months when they are cold (refrigerator) stored in sealed containers. Walnuts are good to eat when opened for up to a year when kept in the freezer.

Fresh walnuts smell mildly nutty and taste sweet. If your walnuts smell like paint thinner, you know they’re rancid. And if they’re rancid, you should throw them away!

Even my health freak Baby C likes nibbling on walnuts (cut into small pieces).

This is Baby’s bowl of snack consisting of pine nuts and cranberries, cut into small bite size. Young toddlers choke easily on nuts and dried fruits like raisins and cranberries, so be really watchful when you feed them these. Make sure the nuts and dried fruits are cut into really small pieces and let them eat under your watchful eyes. Baby C had choked on the cranberries twice and puked, though I’d cut them into really small pieces. I was spoon-feeding her milk and she was nibbling on the cranberries.

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42 thoughts on “Healthy Snacks”

i find that the cranberries are really dry and hard. Does Baby C mind eating them? Hey, i thought munching on nuts are fattening? no?

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Yeah, I store my nuts in the freezer too, esp. pine nuts as they are so expensive. I use them in pesto sauce. I love taosting my own peanuts and even freeze them after I grind them. lasts forever.Yup, nuts are “oily” but still better than having french fries, right??
If the cranberries are hard, soak them in a bit of warm water or apple jce. For baking I like soaking them in rum for that special kick! Btw, cranberries can be frozen too!

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Barb… Baby C loves nibbling on the cranberries but she tends to choke on them, so I have to cut them into really small pieces, so that even if she does not chew them properly and swallows them, she wouldn’t get choke that easily. Nuts, especially walnuts are rich in good fat, esp DHA which is the good oil for our brains. That’s why people say walnuts are food that feed the brain.

Chris… thanks for the tips. I saw strawberry flavored and orange flavored cranberries at Cold Storage the other day. I bought a tub of orange flavored cranberries and they are quite softy and really tasty. I think the cranberries were soaked in orange juice. My gals love nibbling on them.

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We too always have walnuts, hazelnuts & almonds as snacks at home. I too just luv pine nuts but hardly buy as very expensive.

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How many teeth has baby C again? How she manage to nibble? Sarah has about 4 teeth (the top front has just cut out and still growing. Do you think she can nibble too?

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Steph… you have to cut or maybe even blend the pine nuts and cranberries into really small bits and let her try nibbling on them. Give her some water / juice when she eats so that she can swallow them easier w/o choking.

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