Nuts

Since I was a little kid, I have liked nuts.  Peanuts, walnuts, cashews, almonds, filberts, - all good.  I think my mother used to shell pistachios but I didn't develop a fondness for them until recently.  I read Andrew Weil on integrative medicine, including his idea that humans can benefit from some ginger each day.  I think Professor Weil's idea is that ginger has some molecules that are good for the body and hard to get unless one intentionally eats ginger.  I buy sugared ginger in a large bag and eat a piece with a cup of green tea each morning.  Over the years, I have added almonds, dates, and dark chocolate.  Lynn likes pepitas (pumpkin seeds) and I like the salted and baked one.  

Recently, I added pistachios to that routine and when I ran out of them, I ordered some from Amazon.  I didn't watch what I was doing carefully enough and clicked on a deal for 6 bags of shelled, salted and baked pistachios, each 1.5 pounds.   That comes to nearly 10 pounds of pistachios and that is an over-supply for us.