How to incorporate flax seeds into your diet?

I would like to start incorporating flaxseeds into our diet, but I am not sure how. I have never cooked with them before so I could use a little advice. Which way is the better way to utilize them, seed form or ground? What are some good ways you have found to incoporate them into your cooking/baking?

Thanks!

You can make or purchase flax seed crackers or tortilla chips, they're just regular crackers and chips but have flax seeds in them.

Here's recipes for home-made flax seed crackers:
http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/reci...
(using a dehydrator)
http://www.healthcastle.com/flax_recipe....
(using an oven)

I also toss in a few flax seeds into oatmeal, and you can also purchase instant oatmeal that has flax seeds in it. You can't really tell that it's there and it helps you get some in your diet.

You can add ground flaxseed into cookie recipes or muffins - it's mild and nutty flavor is great to stir into peanut butter cookies in particular or molasses cookies. It's very easy to use in baking. You can buy ground flax seed at health food stores or mill it yourself.

Here's a bunch of flax seed recipes:
http://www.flaxhealth.com/recipes.htm#fa...

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Your body will get the most out of it if they are ground. I add it to my yogurt in the morning: plain yogurt, ground flax seed, and blueberries or fresh cut strawberries.
You can sprinkle it over your salad. You can mix with a little butter and spread over your whole grain bread. Try anything really, to see if the taste of flax seed can go with that particular food.

I used flaxseed in all my baked goods as a replacement for eggs.

I get the golden flax seeds and also flax seed oil. The flax seed oil I use sometimes as a substitute oil in cooking. The seeds are great sprinkled on a salad or greens, or mixed in with a stir fry or casserole type dish. You could even try them in soup. You could also use them as a substitute for sesame seeds in recipes that call for them.

Kim at: http://www.peaceful-organic-planet.com/v...

oil is a good for all kinds of cooking and graet for salads


http://www.amazon.com/Flax-Cookbook-Reci...

I buy them whole and grind them myself. Whole flax seed can escape chewing and enter your digestive system whole, passing through intact. You're not getting the benefit of them that way, but buying preground flax seeds means you have to use them up quickly to avoid them going rancid.

The only time I use them in cooking is in baked goods where I use them to sub for eggs. Otherwise, I just grind them over cereal or peanut buttered toast, or into soups and salads. Not very creative, I know, but those are things that can take the strong nutty flavor of flax without being overwhelmed and I usually eat at least one of those items daily, so it's easy to incorporate them on a regular basis.

its the easiest thing in the world to incorporate flax seeds into your diet. I just buy ground flax seeds and sprinkle it on everything. It hardly has any taste so it doesnt interfere with your meal, but it does wonders for your body. I'm sure you know what the benefits of flax seeds are :). I sprinkle it on my all bran in the morning, sprinkle it on my hummus, soup, rice, salad, almond cake. Call me excessive, but its just so easy!

It is best not to heat them because the Omega-3s aren't very stable and break down easily.

Add them raw to soups or mix them into peanut butter before spreading it on sammiches or apples.

mmmm peaunut butter flax seed and jam - thanks for asking this question, I'm having this tomorrow morning

Everyday I freshly grind a couple T flax seed, then mix it with peanut butter with a little honey and have it on a bisquit, pancake or toast.

You can add it to meat loaf, home baked breads, toast and sprinkle on veggies or salad.

Ground flax is easy to use.
Blend it in to your smoothie or sprinkle it on cereal.

I agree with Krister, that heating flax seeds is actually ruining the thing that is good about them. You want to eat them raw. I recommend getting some good flax oil, perhaps from Udo's Choice or Omega to keep in the fridge and use to drizzle onto your rice, spread on your toast, or whatever it is that you eat.

Buying pre-ground up flax seeds, you will have the problem of rancidity, unless they were frozen immediately after being ground -- same goes for all nuts and seeds. If you still want to use the actual seeds, you can just sprinkle them onto your meals instead of cooking with them -- remember to chew chew chew as unchewed ones will just pass right through you. Not a totally bad thing as the unchewed are said to help breakup and slice through materials in the digestive tract helping to move things along as fibre does.

Put them in almost everything, muffins, smoothies, shakes, beans, potatoes, cookies, cakes, a good way is to make flax seed bars. You can go to http://vegweb.com/ to find a lot of vegan recipes, also some more sites:
http://veganpeace.blogspot.com/2007/08/v...

Also you can use them as egg substitutes in baking recipes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_veg...

Plus there's cookbooks:
http://www.amazon.com/Flax-Super-Food-De...
http://www.amazon.com/Flax-Fabulous-Natu...

Ground flax seeds are actually okay to cook just not in extreme heat, flax oil on the other had is very bad took cook.