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Growing your own sprouts to eat
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Growing your own sprouts to eat
Do you grow your own sprouts to eat? It’s an easy way to add fresh food during the winter / spring gap. Great consideration for emergency food storage. Also good for chicken treats. We use these small, stackable trays that makes daily rinsing easier. (The green/yellow tape on pieces of cardboard help us remember to rinse three times a day).
These are mung bean sprouts (used a lot for Korean cooking). Alfalfa sprouts are easy, but we haven’t had luck with soybean sprouts. Any tips? What are you all sprouting?
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I have sprouted wheat, and barley. I did it only once, it did give me like a salad for the outcome… I look at it as yet another way to use my stored grains.
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Love the idea of a sprouted wheat/barley salad! We’ve done a soaked wheat berry with grapes “salad”, but your’s sounds much better! 😁 Thanks for the idea. Have a great day!
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We eat sprouts daily. Generally I sprout mung bean as well as a salad mix. We are zone 3a, with a short growing season so these are my winter go to as lettuce gets so expensive here in winter months. I’ve never done soy, as we don’t have animals.
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Wow, my wife and I would find zone 3a challenging! 😁 We moved from AZ (9b) to OR (8b) and now looking towards TN or surrounding (6-ish). Also impressed that you eat sprouts daily, great nutrition! How do you grow yours? You must have a pretty dialed in process. 👍
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Do you buy your seeds from Trueleaf ?
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We just use organic mung beans, soy beans, barley, etc. from our local Korean grocery store. 😀 We are careful to make sure they’re labeled organic, and are not too old.
Haven’t heard of TrueLeaf but I’ll check them out. Thanks!
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Thanks for the reply. I ‘m sorry for the late response☺️
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We too have long cold winters and grow a lot of alfalfa, radish, clover, etc. sprouts for us people to eat. And sprout grains for the chickens too.
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That’s awesome an awesome mix of sprouts! Do you eat them as salad or add them to other recipes? 😃
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In salads, sandwiches, toppings on soups, as a fresh side with other meals, with eggs or omelets, etc.
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Yum! Great ideas. Haven’t tried them in omelets yet, I’ll have to try that. Hope the weather is kind to you in WY today! 👍
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They are pretty versatile! We’re having a blizzard right now, but that is pretty normal. 🙂
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