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Get On the Chia Seed Bandwagon…

by Cari Donaldson on March 20, 2012 · 22 comments

(yes, these are the kinds of detailed emails I find it necessary to inflict on very nice people I meet via blogging)

Anyway, this post does have a point, and it is this:  these chia seeds work.  They deliver long lasting, sustained energy without jitters or an energy crash.  I don’t care how much like poorly written ad copy I sound like right now- any legal, non-habit forming help that I can get in these last weeks of pregnancy is help I’ll take. So run, don’t walk to your nearest health food store and get you some of these before the FDA gets hip to the whole thing and requires us to get a prescription for them or something.*

But if you live in the greater Hartford area, make sure you’re not taking the last bag, or I will find you- unless I’ve run out of chia-fueled energy.  Then I’ll send one of the minions after you.

 

(*unless you end up being allergic to chia seeds or health food stores or something, or end up getting injured as a result of following this advice.  Then, to cover myself legally, I feel like I should, I don’t know, urge you to consult your doctor or your chiropractor or your shaman or something first.)

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Cari Donaldson
Cari Donaldson stepped through the looking glass when she married her high school sweetheart in a Presbyterian ceremony back in 1999. Since then, she and her husband have found themselves the parents of six children, and on the corporate gypsy trail, with transfers moving them from the Midwest to the deep South to New England. The most startling developments however, have been the conversion to Catholicism in 2006, and the discovery that blogging provides an excellent creative outlet. You can find Cari on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/clan.donaldson and Twitter at @CariDonaldson and here on Catholic Exchange.
  • Colleen

    Never heard of them.  After your endorsement, still kinda wishing I hadn’t.  Because now I’m going to have to try them all Ken-like and Phil will look at me all Cari-like ;)

  • http://www.thislearnedlife.blogspot.com/ Mrs Swanson06

    Yay! I’m glad chia has a use on this earth besides Scooby Doo heads! I’ve been curious to try them ever since you started posting about them. 

    Flax gets gooey, too, but beefs up your smoothies with the same kind of texture. Although I cannot say that they had exactly the same positive effect. 

  • Ana Hahn

    Ok, your email to Grace was hilarious and almost enough to get me to try them (I too struggle with being staunchly opposed to all things “health food-organic” related, for no good reason.) But as a fellow energy-less preggo, I am willing to do just about anything to get a boost.

  • http://twitter.com/HouseUnseen Dwija Borobia

    I know this is supposed to be about some food that I’ve already decided is unacceptable, but I’m just going to talk about how glad I am that you find the capriciousness endearing.  I could write you a list a mile long of TERRIBLE movies I’ve never seen.  True story.

  • steph

    man, I was able to resist Grace when she was shoving chia seed propaganda down my throat…. but since we are in the same preg boat and I severely lack energy now I have to hop on that wagon and try me some. great. thanks…resistance was futile. 

  • Cathmom2five

    So weird that this is your post. I just spent an evening with Frances (Bertasi) Smith, and she was ALL ABOUT chia seeds. She said 1-2 tablespoons was a full meal, and pointed out that this could be very economical for us. She makes some sort of pudding with it, with milk and honey I think. I guess this is a sign. 

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    Just don’t try them before any race we may run together.  You don’t need any more advantage over my sorry, shuffling self.

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    Ana,
    Now, I just pour 2T of seed into a glass of juice, close my eyes and slam it.  That way, it’s over before I realize it.

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    Oh my gosh, me too!  I’ve never seen “The Godfather” for that exact reason.

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    We Borg will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to The Collective, Steph.

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    V., I’ve never tried any way of preparing them other than a smoothie/glass of juice.  Let me know how the pudding works.  
    Except I won’t eat the pudding, since it’s on my list of “unacceptable food items”  (see: capricious).

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    Did you have to grind your flax seeds?  I heard that was one area chia seeds were better- they didn’t require grinding first.

  • Micaela

    I have become frighteningly addicted to coffee since moving to the coffee-loving country of SK. I gave it up for Lent and have been in dire need of energy. Since I am hippie/granola through and through, I have no problem ordering this on Amazon. Right now. Thanks, Cari!

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    On days I skip coffee, I don’t really feel it.  On days I skip chia seeds, I am a half rotted zombie, trying to drag my sorry carcass around.

    Just don’t let any of the Koreans in on the secret.  I’ve read that chia seeds aren’t really well known in Europe or Asia, and I’d like to keep it that way.  More for us.

  • http://pattonperpendere.blogspot.com/ Grace

    you know I heart everything about this article — especially the fact that you said “shaman” at the end.

    priceless.

  • Kate Rhodes

    I jumped on the chia seed wagon with such a vengeance! I have the opposite problem as you apparently…

    I have nothing against slaming chia juice, but my favorite way to eat them is in a coconut pudding (coconut milk, sweetened with whatever, maybe some cinnamon and vanilla). SO delicious and that way you can get on TWO crunchy trains at the same time because coconut is totally crunchalicious. 

  • http://therhodeslog.blogspot.com/ Kate Rhodes

     I don’t know a lot about these things. I prefer not to research my crunchy habits, but I DO know that chia has a much better shelf life than flax.

  • Emily J

    How DARE you insult Odwalla juice!!!!!  ESPECIALLY the green one!! its absolutely delicious!!!! :p

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    Agreed.  However, they need to do something about the color/consistency combo.  Particularly for those of us who are still elbow deep in the diaper-trenches…..there are similarities that the company probably would prefer not to have.

  • Deacon Tom Fox

    What a hoot! I’m wondering if I can ‘control’ the interview we are planning? I’d better get some super food from a nearby store. (The owners look strangely at me when I come in — they know that nothing they sell could help change me. But then I’ve never tried Chia seeds :-) Blessings. dt @www.catholicvitamins.com 

  • Mary @ Better Than Eden

    All right you are now responsible for my impulse purchase at the grocery store this morning.  And considering I don’t prefer to do my own research on such things, I’m going to blame you if consuming chia seeds results in future children having extra appendages.  Or if this super magic energy somehow gets into my milk and my little one decides that sleeping is just not crunchy enough for him.  Then I’m sending him to you.  Trying them right now mixed in some yogurt :)

  • http://www.clan-donaldson.com/ Cari Donaldson

    Ha!  I’m covered- I told you to consult your shaman first!  Everyone knows the admonishment to consult one’s shaman is legally binding.