Size5 wrote:What are chia seeds?
If you google them, or if you google Salba, you'll get all the nutritional information. Salba is an expensive brand of chia... I tend to buy no-name.
Some info is below:
n South America, as far back as 3000 BC until the Spanish Invasion in the 1500's AD, Chia Seeds (Salvia Hispanica) had been a staple of daily nutrition and/or commerce in Pre-Columbian societies. In Mayan and Aztec life, the seed was so important, it was incorporated into religious ceremonies and tribal trading, even having the harvest time for the seeds outlined in ancient Aztec calendars. The health benefits of these super seeds are truly amazing and still being discovered.
Along with maize (corn), beans and amaranth, Chia seeds were one of the four main crops which sustained the ancient societies, helping to make their diets, as discovered by scientists, superior even to modern day. These four crops alone meet the Daily Dietary Requirements as laid out by the World Health Organization (WHO).
One could obtain a healthy and more sustaining life by consuming Chia Seeds. They were known in ancient society as the "Running Food" and is said ancient warriors would sustain themselves on long journeys with a single spoon full of the seeds daily.
Love life, eat plants, do yoga.
Anyhow.... one of the big things is protein that isn't high in fat. There are some suggestions in the literature she gave me but not tons. I'm interested to hear people's suggestions for protein that is portable and no nuts due to an allergy. I don't particularly want to gnaw on a chicken thigh while I drive to work in the morning and the thought of eating eggs more than 3 days a week is really not appealing.
