another flax seed question **traveling with flax**

[Guest guest]

Unfortunately, ground flax seed does not travel. It should be used

immediately after grinding, or kept in the freezer. You could

probably travel with flax meal (baking aisle of health food store),

come to think of it. We do road trips with the oil in a very cold

cooler and make sure the hotel room has a mini fridge. You could

travel with a small coffee grinder and grind seeds as needed, but the

grinder needs to be cleaned very well after each grinding. The

residue left behind can become harmfully rancid.

 

As far as servings, I personally never measure anymore. I just throw

little bit in almost everything. When I first started using flax

oil, the directions on the bottle indicated that 2TB should be used

for each 100lbs of body weight, so I used to convert that for the

baby's weight. My concern would be getting enough omega 3s, not too

much. Some tummies are sensitive to flax, so just look out for that.

 

Nikki

 

, " Carrie Kahl " <carriekahl@m...>

wrote:

>

> Ok, so I've been to the store to pick up both flax seed as well as

flax seed oil. I have a question though and wondering if someone

could clarify. In the book, Raising Vegetarian Children, it suggests

that children between 1 and 3 yrs. should receive 1/2 tsp. flaxseed

oil, or 1/2 Tbs. ground flaxseed. However, the bottle of Liquid Gold

flaxseed oil I bought suggests 1 Tbs. daily. Now I'm assuming that

dose is for an adult but even if you divided that dose in half for a

toddler, it's still much more than 1/2 tsp. What do you recommend?

>

> Also, I getting ready to travel for the holidays. It should be

safe to bring some ground flaxseed with me so I don't have to mess

with buying any there right? Thanks.

>

> Carrie Kahl

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the advice Nikki!

-

lilmunkydunk<lilmunkydunk

< >

Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:00 PM

Re: another flax seed question **traveling with flax**

 

 

Unfortunately, ground flax seed does not travel. It should be used

immediately after grinding, or kept in the freezer. You could

probably travel with flax meal (baking aisle of health food store),

come to think of it. We do road trips with the oil in a very cold

cooler and make sure the hotel room has a mini fridge. You could

travel with a small coffee grinder and grind seeds as needed, but the

grinder needs to be cleaned very well after each grinding. The

residue left behind can become harmfully rancid.

 

As far as servings, I personally never measure anymore. I just throw

little bit in almost everything. When I first started using flax

oil, the directions on the bottle indicated that 2TB should be used

for each 100lbs of body weight, so I used to convert that for the

baby's weight. My concern would be getting enough omega 3s, not too

much. Some tummies are sensitive to flax, so just look out for that.

 

Nikki

 

< >, " Carrie

Kahl " <carriekahl@m<carriekahl@m>...>

wrote:

>

> Ok, so I've been to the store to pick up both flax seed as well as

flax seed oil. I have a question though and wondering if someone

could clarify. In the book, Raising Vegetarian Children, it suggests

that children between 1 and 3 yrs. should receive 1/2 tsp. flaxseed

oil, or 1/2 Tbs. ground flaxseed. However, the bottle of Liquid Gold

flaxseed oil I bought suggests 1 Tbs. daily. Now I'm assuming that

dose is for an adult but even if you divided that dose in half for a

toddler, it's still much more than 1/2 tsp. What do you recommend?

>

> Also, I getting ready to travel for the holidays. It should be

safe to bring some ground flaxseed with me so I don't have to mess

with buying any there right? Thanks.

>

> Carrie Kahl

>

>