h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Discovered a new super food today!

One of my favourite breakfasts is "yoghurt with stuff stirred in". I've switched to soya yoghurt, which is slightly sweeter and creamier than dairy, so it doesn't need any more sweetening.

I like a variety of nuts and seeds, and had tried before hemp seeds. But whole, they are very crunchy, and bits of the husk stick in your teeth.

A few weeks ago I bought a little selection pack of seedy-sprinkly things - flax seed, walnuts and goji berries etc. This morning I tried the shelled hemp seeds.

Wow! Crunchy, nutty, sweet, and no nasty husk. I shall explore ways of shelling the bag of ones I have in the cupboard - I think that crushing them in a mortar and pestle and then adding to water so the shell bit floats might be worth a go.

Plant 'em, water 'em, let 'em grow, harvest the buds and skin 'em up.

cool, well i'ed try thrashing and then blowing off the husks with a gental puff, might use a hair dryer, or something like that keep's them dry

Throw them away and buy some shelled ones? They're not dear, are they?

Do they still have the demonstration threshing machine in Cultra museum? Go down and try it out!

I think the ready shelled ones are a good bit more expensive than the intact ones - but I'm going to do some research.

Plus I quite like the whole ones occasionally, they do have extra fibre and nutrition in that husk.

Now, I never thought of eating hemp seeds...though, come to think of it, there were Alice's brownies...

You should try it, Dmitri - I'm told it's a great replacement food for people with allergies to various things. It seems very few people are allergic to it...

I shall look for this, thanks.