Ironically, Dad was always on a health kick... spare ribs and fluffanutter sandwiches aside. He was always playing tennis, eating the latest health food, and looking for ways to keep his mind active as well. Last year he was really trying to get me to eat Chia seeds, sent me the link to the website where you purchase them and touted a thousand health claims. You buy them by the pound and mix them with water, where they swelled into a (I imagine) slimy mass, before consuming them. I resisted. Last week I bought a new type of vitamin for my children by the name of OMEGA 3 Gummy Fish. Between you and I they should have left fish out of the vitamin's name. anyway I was trying to figure out where the Omega 3s came from and it said a proprietary blend consisting of Salvia Hispanica extract and marine algae. I had to google Salvia etc... to find out what exactly I was feeding my kids. CHIA SEEDS!!!! highest content of Omega 3 per whatever. higher than flax seed or salmon. there you have it. we be eating the chia Dad. So here is another "Thanks Dad" post. He was always striving for good health and though when I was a kid it seemed odd and I didn't really want to eat granola with yoghurt he was an excellent life long example. Now I have to go make some comments about BLOODWORMS on Adem's post!
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ironically thats a donut in your hand fatty ;c) and it appears youve hygraded all the chocolet off the top Nice pic nice post sis
Chia seeds!!!
I remember Dad touting these things too...I envisioned them as slimy frog eggs and apparently wasn't too far off. :D
It seems I might be the only one who actually got to see these chia seeds first hand, and let me tell you, they were N-A-S-T-Y! Dad brought them while Rob and I were over one afternoon. He kept them in a mason jar in the fridge...a big, grey, slimy mass of look-a-like frog eggs. I seriously thought I was going to gag right there in the kitchen. He put a couple scoops into a glass of juice and down they went. "Aaaaahhhhh!" We too got the whole sales pitch, but couldn't be persuaded to try them. We teased that it probably wasn't cancer in his chest, but sprouting chia seeds, which he thought was funny.
Before we left, he printed off more reading material on them and gave me some in a ziploc bag. I did fix them in a mason jar when I got home, just to watch them swell and slime-up, but never drank them down. I tasted one one, and it didn't taste like anything.
Hey Adem you bought the doughnuts! I only like the frosting and the filling. I was hoping it looked like an apple... you gave me away~!
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