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How do you get plenty of protein when you’re a vegetarian? This is one of the biggest challenges when you decide to adopt a plant based lifestyle. Now that I have an almost 9 year old who has chosen to shun meat products, it’s been my mission to make sure he gets as much protein in his diet as possible. He eats plenty of beans and rice, tofu, seeds, nuts, cheese and dairy, but Hemp Hearts have become one of his new favorites.
Hubby and I have been using hemp seeds in our smoothies for years for added taste and nutrition, but until Kenya became a vegetarian I hadn’t realized just how important they were for him as well. We have been buying Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts for years, so working with them on this post was especially fun coming up with new ways to use them in our kitchen.
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With 10 grams of plant based protein and omegas in every serving they’re a great way to get necessary protein into a vegetarian lifestyle with less carbs than flax or chia seeds per serving. The best part is that Hemp Hearts are tiny, so you can sprinkle them on salads, Oatmeal in the Crockpot, in smoothies, parfaits, roasted vegetables even on top of sandwiches to add a nutty flavor (resembling the taste of sunflower seeds or pine nuts) to tons of foods.
Kenya’s new favorite is this Persimmon Kiwi Parfait I posted on Instagram, my husband is truly obsessed with this Chocolate Almond Butter Smoothie and Chloe who eats almost anything asked for this Kale and Avocado Salad for dinner and then to be added to her school lunch the next day.
Keep a bag of Hemp Hearts at arms length to add them to your favorite recipes. You’ll be getting a ton of nutrition and great taste in every bite!
I love hemp Hearts, and they are easy to sneak into the kiddies meals too! My favorite is mixing in with their morning oatmeal. Nobody would ever know!
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Oh love to try the oatmeal in a crockpot and salad too! I have tried them on my overnight oats and love it! Thank you for more ideas,
I have hemp hearts in my salads and in smoothies. Also stirred into my yogurt with fruit, delicious! Would love to win and try the bites and powders!! They sound delicious, too!!
Shared on my FB as well Thanks!!!
Maureen McDonald Ramsay
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I love my Hemp Hearts in my plain yogurt. I also add them to my chocolate chip cookie recipe! And of course Hemp Powder in my morning juice/smoothie 🙂
I would add them on top of my overnight oats and sprinkle on peanut butter toast 🙂
I add them to all my salads and smoothies and I sometimes use them in place of sesame seeds in Thai dishes.
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I would add these to my almond butter smoothies!! I never thought of adding them to roasted veggies until I read this blog post so I would love to try it! Great giveaway!
Chia and flaxseed
Chocolate almond butter smoothie! I am smoothie obsessed.
my boys love these! eat them by the spoonful. we will add them to any toast (butter, peanut butter, pumpkin butter), pancakes and sprinkle them on roasted sweet potatoes, but have also found them delicious to use with fish. while the little ones are very picky about their salmon preparation (although i am sure this would be good with salmon as well), we like hemp seed crusted arctic char and rainbow trout.
ahhh! i seriously never even heard of these until this past weekend. i was at my mother in laws house and she made some protein balls with nuts/dates/cocoa powder (which i’m familiar with) but also said she included hemp hearts and i was all ‘whaaaaat the what is a hemp heart?!” anyways, they were delicious and i’d love to win some for myself 🙂
Would love to win this! Thank you for the chance!
I love sprinkling it over my oatmeal and on top of my smoothies.