Michelle Darmody: Baking with seeds and nuts
Baking may not the first thing on your agenda. With this in mind I have included three recipes that help to add more nuts, seeds and fruit into your diet. A slice of a loaf cake can be a good way to disguise any number of healthy ingredients.
There a wide variety of seeds that you can eat and they add valuable minerals and protein to your diet. The most prevalent edible seeds in our diet are cereals, such as rice, wheat, maize and oats. Technically nuts and legumes such as beans are also seeds, and the coffee that we drink is the ground, roasted seed of the coffea plant. The seeds we eat less regularly but which add greatly to our diet are as pumpkin, sunflower or sesame seeds.
