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16 ways to use sunflower seeds

Categories: Healthy Recipes, Diet & Weight Loss, Alternative & Green Health, Nutrition & Supplements

sunflower seedsLooking for a way to get more vitamin B, E, and minerals into your diet? Sunflower seeds will do it. Doesn't it beg the question, though: What do you do with sunflower seeds?
  1. Add them to your trail mix, or make your own trail mix with sunflower seeds.
  2. Sprinkle on salads: green salad, broccoli salad, fruit salad.
  3. Stir into soups and stews just before serving.
  4. Bev says to spit sunflower seeds!
  5. Add some crunch to stir-fries.
  6. We put them in blueberry buckwheat pancakes -- yum!
  7. Sprinkle on granola.
  8. Stir into yogurt.
  9. Roasted sunflower seeds are a different flavor -- try them!
  10. Include in dirty rice recipes.
  11. Add to pasta or quinoa salads.
  12. Bake into breads and muffins.
  13. Try this recipe for basmati rice, black-eyed peas and sunflower seeds.
  14. Blend up a sunflower seed spread for crackers or veggies.
  15. Make a two-bean salad with feta and sunflower seeds.
  16. Stuff an apple with peanut butter, raisins and sunflower seeds.
Are there other ways to eat sunflower seeds? You bet, and if you've got a favorite, share it with us!

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