What do you eat for Fatty Fish and Omega 3

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  • ivykivy
    ivykivy Posts: 2,970 Member
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    Flounder is light and not very fishy tasting. Have you tried tuna steaks? Also walnuts are good for omega 3s
  • cardigirl
    cardigirl Posts: 492 Member
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    Trader Joe's has an all natural peanut butter with flax seed in it. It's pretty tasty.
  • bethaudrey
    bethaudrey Posts: 40
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    Flax seed can be added to any baked good, but is really delicious ground about half way (to leave some crunchiness) and added in place of some of the flour in banana bread. I've also used it in carrot cake. Works really well. In the Joy of Vegan baking (awesome book) she explains how to use it instead of eggs in many baked goods.

    What hasn't been mentioned is purslane, which grows here as a weed. So it's free!
    I think it's kinda gross when cooked, but add it chopped to soup *after* the soup is cooked, or in salad, or very lightly sauteed with other veggies.

    From wikipedia:

    Purslane contains more Omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid in particular[4]) than any other leafy vegetable plant. Simopoulos states that Purslane has .01 mg/g of EPA. This is an extraordinary amount of EPA for land based vegetable sources. EPA is an Omega-3 fatty acid normally found mostly in fish, some algae and flax seeds. [5] It also contains vitamins (mainly vitamin A, vitamin C, and some vitamin B and carotenoids), as well as dietary minerals, such as magnesium, calcium, potassium and iron. Also present are two types of betalain alkaloid pigments, the reddish betacyanins (visible in the coloration of the stems) and the yellow betaxanthins (noticeable in the flowers and in the slight yellowish cast of the leaves). Both of these pigment types are potent antioxidants and have been found to have antimutagenic properties in laboratory studies.[6]
    100 grams of fresh purslane leaves (about 1 cup) contain 300 to 400 mg of alpha-linolenic acid. One cup of cooked leaves contains 90 mg of calcium, 561 mg of potassium, and more than 2,000 IUs of vitamin A.
  • bethaudrey
    bethaudrey Posts: 40
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    Would you all think I'm a total freak if I admitted to grabbing this stuff while weeding and snacking on it? lol.

    I don't use chems in my garden. ;-)

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