Hey! What happened to all my pistachios?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Okay, so I’m eating light lunches at work nowadays, trying to lose a couple-or-twenty pounds.

:: Munches a few pistachios ::

A lot of days I have only a granola bar, or a yogurt.

:: Munches a few pistachios ::

Some days that’s enough to get me to dinner! This is gonna be a snap. The weight is just gonna melt off.

:: Grabs a new handful of pistachios ::

Some days, though, such a light lunch leads to hunger in the afternoon. I figure if I just have a light snack, it’s still better than a big lunch and no snack.

:: Munches a few pistachios ::

Then I get the idea: keep a tub of pistachios in my desk drawer! Just for when I really need something to stave off hunger pangs.

:: Munches a few pistachios ::

It’s brilliant! Most of the time they’ll be out of sight. I’ll only think of them when I’m really hungry.

:: Hears co-worker coming; hides pistachios ::

And, what with having to de-shell them one by one, I won’t want to bother eating them! I’m an important, busy guy here at work. I’ll hardly ever snack on these.

:: Sees that coast is clear; grabs a new handful of pistachios ::

Yessiree, keeping pistachios around as an emergency-only snack is one of my best ideas ever.

:: Munches a few pistachios… ::

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Before I clicked on this, before I even read the mouse-over, I thought, “I bet you ate them all.”

Because that is just the nature of pistachios.

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Heh. First post I read after coming back from the convenience store armed with a bag of pistachios - more protein than carb, 1/3 bag has 210 cals - that’s a perfect ratio for lunch! That’ll give me two more days of lunch!

Uh…so what’s a third of a bag? No measuring cups at work. Did that one or two on the floor I just went digging for put it over the third? May be close to two thirds now. You know, the inside of the shells is really tasty, love to run my tongue over it. Well, maybe that’s a third of the bag left now. Oh, what the heck…

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Best username/post combo this year so far.

As you’ve no doubt surmised, your cunning plan failed to take into account the fact that pistachios are not stave-off-hunger-when-you-just-need-a-little-something snack. They are a stave-off-hunger-when-you-just-need-a-little-something-well-okay-maybe-just-a-few-more-ad-nauseum-until-you’ve-ruined-dinner snack. They are almost as effective a salt delivery vehicle as beef jerky, and the fact that you have to shell them one-by-one doesn’t mean a damn thing once you start in.

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I bought a three-pound bag of pistachios over the weekend, and opened them up when I sat down at my desk for work Monday morning.

I just looked over and noticed the bag is looking…a little less full than it did a few days ago. It’s currently on the shipping scale I keep near my desk – 1.2 pounds.

Good fucking God, I’ve eaten 1.8 pounds of pistachios in four days.

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I love pumpkin seeds in the shell. Shelled pumpin seeds are just not the same. They’re a pretty effective salt delivery system, too. I pop about half a dozen in my mouth, and suck. It takes a few minutes to suck all the salt off of them and soften up the shells enough for me to crack them.

Oh, and I got the results of my bloodwork back…my sugar is high, but my sodium is LOW. Must buy more pumpkin seeds.

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I like sunflower seeds. Takes a lot of work to get the seed and most of it do with your mouth.

No nasty jokes please.:slight_smile:

The effort it takes takes up a lot of time and doesn’t have too many calories.

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Sunflower seeds in the shell are my weakness, too. I’ll eat them until my tongue is sore, and then keep on eating them - I think it’s more habit than anything with those things. I ration them very strictly now, since I’m trying to reduce my salt intake. (Yeah, I know you can get unsalted, shelled sunflower seeds - I just don’t bother.)

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A couple of years ago I got a bag of pistachios from Trader Joe’s and left them on the kitchen counter. I would have a few here and there, but noticed that the bag was decreasing more steadily than my consumption would account for. “Oh,” I thought, “Mr. Rat (my husband) must like them too.”

A week or so later Mr. Rat pulled out the drawer under the stove to get a pan, and called me into the kitchen, where he asked me not to throw pistachio shells on the floor since they all ended up getting swept under the stove. I denied and asked him about his pistachio consumption, he expressed confusion (“I don’t even like the things!”) and then the light dawned on us.

Long story short, we ended up catching a mother deer mouse and three babies-- the momma had taken up residence in our house to shelter from some wet weather, then had her mouselets under our stove. We evicted them (into drier weather), but left the trap out and eventually caught one more baby/young mouse, who we decided to keep. We named him Ne-taro (“Mouse First Son” in Japanese, a proper samurai name) but I suppose we should have named him Pistachio instead, as we had pistachios to thank for one of the cutest pets we’ve ever had.

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Is it actually possible to buy unsalted pumpkins seeds. I find the sodium content on them, and just about all nuts, to be really high.

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Google is my friend.

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My girlfriend doesn’t like pistachios. This means I can have them at home and I’m the ONLY one to eat them.

Be jealous.