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Nuts About Your Eyes

Regardless of their shape, size, or type, fatty foods may be bad for your eyes. With this exception: nuts!

Yep, eating nuts at least once a week may help protect your peepers from vision-stealing conditions like macular degeneration.

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How do you use nuts to add texture and flavor to your favorite foods?

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jakegott

5 of 5 people found this helpful.

9/19/2008 9:23:46 AM

A great breakfast recipe is to make regular, (not instant), oatmeal, sprinkled with cinnamon, & a little vanilla and some sweetener. (I use 2% milk ... I know, but it tastes so much better to me.) After cooking, top it off with some coarsely chopped walnuts and fresh fruit or berries.

Ladybugger

74 of 76 people found this helpful.

4/26/2008 4:42:08 PM

When those low blood sugar blues hit, usually midafternoon, I take a few nuts to give me a protein boost and stave off hunger until dinner. My favorites are almonds or walnuts!

Robynar

52 of 57 people found this helpful.

4/26/2008 4:11:25 AM

Since cooked oils are questionable, changing into potentially dangerous transfats, it applies also to the oils in nuts. On an irregular basis it is not so bad but as an every day thing it could become harmful for certain people, having a taxing effect on the liver.
Also many people regard peanuts and cashews as nuts when they are really in the legume class.
An enjoyable mix is ground or grated nuts, real ones, mixed and rolled into shapes with minced dates and/or minced dried fruit. Can be rolled in coconut as well if you like that.
Also dates are not a dried fruit. They grow as they are on palms.
In fact if they do dry out, which they shouldn't, they are just awful to eat as is

[Edited by Robynar on 4/26/2008 4:17:53 AM]

evelynn

54 of 63 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 9:20:05 PM

I have baked almonds with a wee bit of olive oil , a dash of sea salt , onion powder and some paprika ...Let cool ... Will keep in a sealed container ... Great for work when you get the feeling that you need to eat something...

amacd1

25 of 25 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 8:06:47 PM

I make a mixture of almond slices, sunflower seeds and wheat bran, chopped up in my small chopper. I add 2-3 Tbsps. to my morning oatmeal, or to fruit smoothies. It adds fibre, protein and extra goodness to my food. Enjoy! amacd1

pumpkinseason

8 of 9 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 7:09:27 PM

I have almonds with plain yogert and blueberries every morning for breakfast. Yum

clownfish

4 of 5 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 7:07:47 PM

I like to eat an apple along with a small handful of raw almonds. It's a good taste combination!

MargaretRose

12 of 13 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 4:22:13 PM

Take a whole wheat tortilla, fill it with fresh spring greens or spinach, and add dried cranberries and lots of almonds or walnuts. Sprinkle on a little raspberry or balsamic vinegar, roll it up, and enjoy.

notesandle...

11 of 11 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 4:00:47 PM

1-2 tablespoons of slivered almonds on 1 and 1/2 cups of mixed citrus fruit and peaches(no sugar added). Good carbs. Good fat. I buy the almonds bulk at a very good savings per pound.

dolphin

11 of 11 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 3:43:46 PM

mix nuts and dried fruit into waffle mix and spread thin on your waffle iron. top w/fresh or frozen fruit.

yoworkout

47 of 47 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 11:19:59 AM

Try chewing nuts longer. Nuts, like grains, become sweeter and taste alot better - roasted nuts disrupt the natural oils in the nut and they can become rancid

Sandibos

39 of 43 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 10:57:34 AM

Sprinkle walnut or pecan pieces on your cereal. For an extra health benefit top with cinnamon. Yummm!

johncole

29 of 41 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 10:06:05 AM

buy Pistachio's they are great.. a tad of salt makes em better but u can buy unsalted..

hrmpro2

8 of 8 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 9:52:34 AM

It's difficult to find nuts with low sodium that taste any good. But eating unsalted nuts with celery, raw or shortly steamed cauliflower and broccoli, or fruit (apple slices, citrus, bananas, or pineapple chunks) makes a delightful combo.

RICHARDZON

8 of 9 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 9:48:19 AM

I'm looking for a natural remedy for extremely dry eyes. Even when I'm sleeping, sometimes it seems I can't get enough moisture to blink and it's hard to open my eyes.

Nana-Yo

5 of 7 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 9:30:07 AM

Now I know why my Abuela, gave me nuts..I buy a big bag of walnuts, almonds, , then put them in snack bags and put them in my purse..as the hunger attacks me I just open my snack bag...now I give them to my grand children....

Koikat

5 of 5 people found this helpful.

4/25/2008 9:21:02 AM

I drive for a living and always have nuts on hand for snacks. Black walnuts and almonds are supposed to be healthiest, but I'd rather eat other nuts. So I make up a baggie of mixed nuts from our local nuthouse. I've found it curbs my cravings for sweets!