Almond flour

Debbie Cusick wrote:

In my experimentations I've found you can make a somewhat chunky almond
"meal" in a food processor, but if you try to grind it as fine as flour you
end up with almond butter instead.

It helps if you start with frozen almonds and make sure the coffee
grinder cools off thoroughly between each batch. The warmer the
almonds are, the sooner they turn into butter.

Shirley

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Debbie Cusick wrote:

There is a Whole Foods right up the street from me, and I have shopped there
for YEARS, but I have never once seen almond flour there! :-(

However their freshly made almond butter is wonderful!

Poor you! Interestingly, I scouted out 2-3 Whole Foods here and
saw no almond meal. Then the very next time I was in one of those
stores, I saw it. It was in a section of Bob's Red Mill products.

Maybe you can special order it? Or suggest that they stock it?
My WF is good about that.

--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

M Shirley Chong wrote:
Debbie Cusick wrote:

In my experimentations I've found you can make a somewhat chunky almond
"meal" in a food processor, but if you try to grind it as fine as flour you
end up with almond butter instead.

It helps if you start with frozen almonds and make sure the coffee
grinder cools off thoroughly between each batch. The warmer the
almonds are, the sooner they turn into butter.

I use sliced almonds (big bag from Sam's Club), because whole ones tend to
leave some lumps in the coffee grinder. I've never had them become almond
butter in the coffee grinder (heard they do that in a food processor,
but I don't have one).

Pecans are soft enough to put in a heavy freezer ziplock and
roll with a rolling pin for pecan meal. This works for sliced
almonds, too, but takes more "elbow grease."

--
jamie )

"There's a seeker born every minute."

My Whole Foods is NOT good about it. I wrote a note to them on their bulletin
board form a few months ago asking them to stock more low-carb foods (like ice
cream and tortillas) and got back an answer saying that Whole Foods aimed toward
natural foods and that most low carb products didn't fit into that category! They
made it clear they didn't go for the idea. And they put this answer on their
public bulletin board!

Barbara

"Jean B." wrote:

Debbie Cusick wrote:

There is a Whole Foods right up the street from me, and I have shopped there
for YEARS, but I have never once seen almond flour there! :-(

However their freshly made almond butter is wonderful!

Poor you! Interestingly, I scouted out 2-3 Whole Foods here and
saw no almond meal. Then the very next time I was in one of those
stores, I saw it. It was in a section of Bob's Red Mill products.

Maybe you can special order it? Or suggest that they stock it?
My WF is good about that.

--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

BJPruett wrote:

My Whole Foods is NOT good about it. I wrote a note to them on their bulletin
board form a few months ago asking them to stock more low-carb foods (like ice
cream and tortillas) and got back an answer saying that Whole Foods aimed toward
natural foods and that most low carb products didn't fit into that category! They
made it clear they didn't go for the idea. And they put this answer on their
public bulletin board!


Hmmm. Yes, I can see that they would have that response--as much
as we don't like it. Still, almond flour, flax meal (or seeds to
grind yourself), etc. fit in well with their philosophy. I also
like to get nitrate/nitrite-free bacon (etc.), hormone-free meats,
etc. there. And organic produce. (I must say that our local
stores seem not to be trying as hard to get they organic produce
now though.)

--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Hi BJ,
On 27-Sep-2003, BJPruett wrote:

My Whole Foods is NOT good about it. I wrote a note to them on their
bulletin board form a few months ago asking them to stock more
low-carb foods
(like ice cream and tortillas) and got back an answer saying that
Whole Foods
aimed toward natural foods and that most low carb products didn't fit
into that
category! They made it clear they didn't go for the idea. And they
put this answer on
their public bulletin board!

A suggestion: Get one of the wrappers from the La Tortilla Factory
Whole Wheat tortillas. Give it to the store manager, and ask him/her to
consider carrying that particular product. Point out the high fiber
content of the product (generally thought to be "good thing") and draw
their attention to the protein source (soy, not animal - an acceptable
vegetarian food). Don't even mention low carb. Those tortillas would
fit in well with the Whole Foods regular stock. Another possibility is
the KetoCrisp cereal.

Take care,
Carmen

Our local Whole Foods just put out a flyer about how they have lots of food
for the low carb diet.

Unfortunately, their list of "low carb diet" foods includes oat cereal and a
bunch of other inexplicably high carb items, but at least it's a sign that
they're waking up to the fact that the diet is very popular.

-- Jenny

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"BJPruett" wrote in message
...
My Whole Foods is NOT good about it. I wrote a note to them on their
bulletin
board form a few months ago asking them to stock more low-carb foods (like
ice
cream and tortillas) and got back an answer saying that Whole Foods aimed
toward
natural foods and that most low carb products didn't fit into that
category! They
made it clear they didn't go for the idea. And they put this answer on
their
public bulletin board!

Barbara

"Jean B." wrote:

Debbie Cusick wrote:

There is a Whole Foods right up the street from me, and I have shopped
there
for YEARS, but I have never once seen almond flour there! :-(

However their freshly made almond butter is wonderful!

Poor you! Interestingly, I scouted out 2-3 Whole Foods here and
saw no almond meal. Then the very next time I was in one of those
stores, I saw it. It was in a section of Bob's Red Mill products.

Maybe you can special order it? Or suggest that they stock it?
My WF is good about that.

--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Well certainly I can see the ice cream, and I agree with their philosophy.
They go for natural foods and LC ice cream has artificial sweeteners, etc. I
can't see them ever carrying that. I don't know why no tortillas though. I
have never seen the tortillas nor wanted them, but I thought they were
pretty natural but just used other ingredients other than the standard white
flour.

And almond flour is perfectly natural. It seems like a "natural" thing for
Whole Foods to carry!

Though I *do* notice they carry all sorts of protein bars, just not Atkins
or LC bars - but heck, most of those bars are nasty anyway.

Debbie

"BJPruett" wrote in message
...
My Whole Foods is NOT good about it. I wrote a note to them on their
bulletin
board form a few months ago asking them to stock more low-carb foods (like
ice
cream and tortillas) and got back an answer saying that Whole Foods aimed
toward
natural foods and that most low carb products didn't fit into that
category!

Jenny wrote:

Our local Whole Foods just put out a flyer about how they have lots of food
for the low carb diet.

Unfortunately, their list of "low carb diet" foods includes oat cereal and a
bunch of other inexplicably high carb items, but at least it's a sign that
they're waking up to the fact that the diet is very popular.


Good! That sounds semi-promising, anyway.

--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Dear Carmen,

I like that approach! A creative suggestion! I'll try it.
Thanks,
Barbara

Carmen wrote:

Hi BJ,
On 27-Sep-2003, BJPruett wrote:

My Whole Foods is NOT good about it. I wrote a note to them on their
bulletin board form a few months ago asking them to stock more
low-carb foods
(like ice cream and tortillas) and got back an answer saying that
Whole Foods
aimed toward natural foods and that most low carb products didn't fit
into that
category! They made it clear they didn't go for the idea. And they
put this answer on
their public bulletin board!

A suggestion: Get one of the wrappers from the La Tortilla Factory
Whole Wheat tortillas. Give it to the store manager, and ask him/her to
consider carrying that particular product. Point out the high fiber
content of the product (generally thought to be "good thing") and draw
their attention to the protein source (soy, not animal - an acceptable
vegetarian food). Don't even mention low carb. Those tortillas would
fit in well with the Whole Foods regular stock. Another possibility is
the KetoCrisp cereal.

Take care,
Carmen