Essence butterflies are a little nuts about nuts + nut/seed butters. We generally recommend at least one consumption per day, and if you don’t have 17 different raw nut + seed butters lining your fridge (most raw nut butters aren’t shelf stable…), do you even butter, bro? We like to EAT our multivitamins and not TAKE them by varying our nut intake each and every day. There’s no “best” nut/ nut butter. You’re golden if you aim to consume each and every nut / seed under the sun in the span of the week / month.
We do a lot of school menu development for private schools (don’t get me started on a #foodrant about public school menus), and the trend is def going #nutfree at school because of allergies. The good news is — most schools allow seeds – so heeellooo sunflower seed butter, tahini, pumpkin seed butter, and even seed butter blends, which I eat anyways for more “multivitamin” access in. Stuffing celery with sunflower butter + chia is a snazzy update on #antsonalog anyways and #allergyfriendly. We’ve even swung in organic soy nut butter into some of my school menus — and before you start quaking with fear about soy — DON’T. Organic soy is safe AF. (Subtle plug: summer is prime time for menu development for schools for Fall, so Miami mamas GET AT US!)
Spooning a chunk o’ cashew butter into a ramekin and nuking it in the microwave = a perfect drizzle for pancakes, oatmeal, fruit salads, smoothies, and yogurt-stuffed papaya boats. So if you’ve been married to almond butter since you read some sexy headline in 2007 about almonds being the “healthiest” nut — time to have a steamy affair with every other nut + seed in our butterfly world — your body accessing all those other unique micronutrients will thank us.
Essentially Yours,
The Essence Team