Chia seeds?

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Chia seeds?

Post by Jedi_Crab » Tue May 17, 2016 9:25 am

I am wondering where I can get chia seeds since a fellow crabber told me they where a staple. Also, is store bought food pellets nessasary?
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Re: Chia seeds?

Post by CallaLily » Tue May 17, 2016 9:31 am

I see chia seeds in the baking aisle of my local grocery stores.

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Re: Chia seeds?

Post by CrabbyCakes » Tue May 17, 2016 10:19 am

I live in the sticks and the local grocery store does not carry chia seeds. I found some at a health food store. You can also order if off of amazon if you are willing to pay for shipping.
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Post by PinkMermaid7 » Wed May 18, 2016 9:50 pm

I buy chia seeds from www.vitacost.com
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Re: Chia seeds?

Post by jocelyndale » Fri May 20, 2016 6:45 pm

The humans here go through a lot of chia. It's cheapest for us at Sam's (or Costco) and a local grocery chain called Food Lion, where it's found in the natural foods aisle with the organic baking supplies. Sometimes we find it at Marshall's or TJ Maxx, too, which is always kind of funny.

We buy the BetterBody Foods brand, but there are other brands. That one is just the most cost effective. We used to buy it at Trader Joe's, but their chia seeds don't gel for some reason, which is very odd. So we don't buy them because DH mixes them into a smoothie drink and needs them to gel.
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Re: Chia seeds?

Post by soilentgringa » Fri May 20, 2016 8:59 pm

They have bulk bins at Winco; that's where we got ours. They gel up just fine...and I know this not only because we made pudding with them, but from the fact that I got one in my eye during a freak chia incident and it gelled in my eye and took forever to wash out.
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Re: Chia seeds?

Post by Rawrgeous » Fri May 20, 2016 9:22 pm

soilentgringa wrote:They have bulk bins at Winco; that's where we got ours. They gel up just fine...and I know this not only because we made pudding with them, but from the fact that I got one in my eye during a freak chia incident and it gelled in my eye and took forever to wash out.
Okay, so I'm not a bad person, and I'm sure that was super painful..but I just snorted with laughter reading that..probably because that's something that would happen to me. XD

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Re: Chia seeds?

Post by soilentgringa » Fri May 20, 2016 9:32 pm

Rawrgeous wrote:
soilentgringa wrote:They have bulk bins at Winco; that's where we got ours. They gel up just fine...and I know this not only because we made pudding with them, but from the fact that I got one in my eye during a freak chia incident and it gelled in my eye and took forever to wash out.
Okay, so I'm not a bad person, and I'm sure that was super painful..but I just snorted with laughter reading that..probably because that's something that would happen to me. XD

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Oh no! Laugh all you want, it was hilarious. Terrible at the time, but really funny.
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