Kirkland Signature Walnuts – Item of the Day
Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day Kirkland Signature Walnuts. One of the great things about the paleo life is nuts are on the menu, especially nuts like walnuts. But have you looked at the price of shelled walnuts in the store?
When I found these I knew I was on to something, a three pound bag is only about 17 bucks and it ships free to your house on Amazon prime. Now three pounds is a lot and these are raw nuts so this is what I do. I put a half pound a piece into small vacuum seal bags, seal them up and keep them in the freezer and take them out as I need them.
I use these a variety of ways. First is just plain snacking, you have to go easy on nuts while on a paleo eating plan because even though they are low carb they are very calorically dense. So when I snack on them I will take out about a handful (2 ounces) and put the rest away. They go great with some beef jerky and add a great crunch with say some yogurt cheese and pepper sticks.
Do you miss croutons on your salad or just want even more crunch. Okay take a few handfuls of these, get a dry no stick skillet nice and warm and toss these in, toast them until they just begin to brown. Let them cool and toss them on any salad of your choosing and man they are great. My favorite is a spinach salad, with crumbled blue cheese, some sliced green apple, bacon, some boiled eggs (quail eggs split sideways are nice) and these walnuts. My take on a Waldorf.
Want to take something extremely simple and make it over the top? Okay again start by toasting some walnuts, this time give them a slight rough chop so they are all about 1/4 sized. Once they start to toast add bacon grease to the pan and trimmed green beans, saute the green beans until just done, that means bright green and still a little crisp in the center. Remove from the pan, top with some bacon crumbles and a bit of real Parmesan cheese.
The entire thing takes perhaps 10 minutes to do at most. It is simple you season it with some salt an pepper other than that there are only 4 ingredients but it is blow you away good. Oh and it is healthy and 100% paleo/low carb.
I am sure there are other things you can come up to do with walnuts. The next thing I want to try is Turkish Walnut Soup. In any event if you want to put some high quality crunch into your life, check out, Kirkland Signature Walnuts today.
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One caveat with buying Costco branded stuff on Amazon, they are all from third party resellers. I have gotten old, out of date, or repackaged items, like coffee dumped into a different box. Amazon was always great about refunding, but I tend to get Kirkland stuff straight from Costco at this point to avoid the hassle.
I used to buy Kirkland nuts, until I found out the terrible pesticides and fungicides often used on commercial nuts, even at a local farmer’s market http://www.pesticideinfo.org/DS.jsp?sk=3009#TopChems . Now I buy only organic nuts from health food stores and use less. Plus, we have planted a walnut tree and hope to plant more! This seems like a fair price for organic walnuts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Now-Foods-Certified-Unsalted-12-Ounce/dp/B000N1ZB6Y
These are good walnuts but buy them from your local costco. I bought some of these right before thanksgiving and paid about $12-$13 for them.
A great PALEO veggie (carrots, peppers, broccoli, etc…) dip using Walnuts.
250 g walnuts
1 16 oz jar roasted red peppers – drained
60-75 g onions
60 g olive oil
40 g lemon juice
2 heaping tsp cumin
1 ½ tsp salt
1 ½ heaping tsp cayenne pepper
heaping pinch ground cloves
Blend everything in a food processor.