sprouting seeds**to eat**

Queenie

jojo3 wrote:

.... What happens now and what do I have to do?

First, you have to repent for admitting to using new tights on the MSE OS board Your penance will be to read all of This Thread :whistle: :rotfl:

Amyanne_2

My daughter has just bought me a packet of mixed Biosnacky sprouts as I want to start sprouting. I notice a lot of Sprouters will only take one type of sprout. Can someone tell me the best way to sprout these. Biosnacky doesn't give a lot of info. Thanks All:o

nigel__p_3

Hi there , i have sprouted mung beans a few times , but i have some aduki seeds i bought , it says they should be soaked and boiled before eating to remove toxins . If they are sprouted can they be eaten raw ? thanks

annie-c

I've never soaked or boiled aduki beans, even for recipes that require them cooked - I certainly wouldn't do it for sprpouting. When sprouting you need to put the dried beans in at the start.

Soya beans and kidney beans need to be boiled for health reasons that are explained here:
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/pulses.html.

Most supermarket packets have the same warning on all their pulses and legumes but fast-boiling is not necessary in all cases.

Linda32

Hello all,

I can't answer any questions as its my first time at this.

Just wanted to say that I've bought a packet of Sprouting Seeds - Alfalfa, from the garden centre, Suttons £1.45 for the packet, no weight but it averages 9,500 seeds apparently.

I saw a sprouter at the garden centre for £5.99 but since I originate in OS I thought I'd better try the jam jar method first :rotfl: I have steralised jars which I used last year for Green Tomato Chutney.

I'm going to go for the jam jar / tights and rubber band method and follow the instructions on the packet.

I'll let you know how I get on.

[Deleted User]

remember not to put too many seeds in Linda32 and they sprout really quickly if you soak them for a few hours first. I soak them in the jar and then rinse a couple of times and then have the jar on a slant to drain

Linda32

kittie wrote:

remember not to put too many seeds in Linda32 and they sprout really quickly if you soak them for a few hours first. I soak them in the jar and then rinse a couple of times and then have the jar on a slant to drain

Thanks Kittie, they are in soak now. The packet says to soak overnight first

Don't worry though, I'm not soaking the whole packet :eek: :rotfl: I measured enough to very very thinly cover the bottom of the jar first, if they had been spread out. (Hope that makes sense)

[Deleted User]

we are going into the `hungry gap` months now, when organic greens grown in this country are in very short supply. My seeds are on the go as I speak. The alfalfa, if soaked, only takes 3 days before I start harvesting. I soak another load in another jar after day 2 so I have always got some on the go. I harvest the bulk when they are starting to get their green leaves and I keep them in the fridge a couple of days. They go on anything I am serving up lol I might even put some in smoothies together with ground flaxseeds and fruit and juice

I soaked 2 soup spoons of mung beans and they are now enough to completely fill a 28 cm diameter tray in my automatic sprouter. It is amazing how much the seeds expand on soaking

Tell us how you`re doing Linda32

Linda32

Well, they have been in the airing cupboard for about 24 hours, the packet said to put them in there until they sprouted, which they now have done and are about a 1/4 of an inch. They are now in good light but not direct sun (as per packet) which means living room windowsill.

So far so good.

[Deleted User]

They don`t need much light or the airing cupboard Linda32. Mine sit on the draining board, on the wall furthest from the window and they`re there from start to finish. The less work the better or people give up and also they`ve got to be handy for rinsing as much as possible