the trouble with cashew butter...

[curlygirl82]

Has anybody else had a hard time digesting this? I make a little treat for myself everynight - a small pudding of cacao powder, cashew butter, coconut oil, and raw honey - just, like, half a cup's worth... but lately, using all the same ingredients, it just sits in my stomach and makes me VERY unhappy. I have a feeling it's the cashew butter (I put cacao in green smoothies, and am great, so I think it's not that...) - what do you think?

[T-Bird]

What is the source of your cashew butter?? And/or your cashews?

Raweater brought up a point on another thread that even if making it yourself - you really have to monitor the temperature of the batch as all that whizzing can heat things up.

How carefully do commercial companies monitor? If they can load up their vat, run it quick, bottle and sell it as raw - do they care?

See my thread the great raw fraud! <<insert crying emoticon here>>

[Veronica01]

A half a cup of cashew butter? Nuts are really dense in calories and fat, check out the nutrition on your butter. It's hard to digest with a lot of people, especially when you're mixing half fat with half straight sugar that will bog down your digestion and give you a hard time processing the sugar. Eat what makes you feel great instead. :)

[kaybee]

cashews--even the "really raw" ones make me feel sick and nauseous after eating them... they feel like they sit in my tummy or in my throat.

[cornvalley]

Thirty years ago when I first started becoming vegan, etc. I developed an overly amorous affair with CB. Tubs and tubs would pass through my Champion and to my spoon/mouth.
Lot's o' trouble there.
I wish I had an intervention.
Careful lil' puddin' girl.

[circle]

maybe try going without it for a few days and see what happens.

[curlygirl82]

Thanks for your replies...

To answer the questions posed - it's not a half a cup of cashew butter, but like a half a cup of pudding, total... so it's probably 2 tbsp cashew butter... ish.
I get it from Whole Foods, they have nut butter machines there where you just pull the lever and it grinds the cashews right then and there... it does heat up a little bit, but I try to keep an eye on that by pausing frequently. It never gets more than slightly warm to the touch, though...

Sigh. I know I should just give it up. It's such a great carrier for the cacao, though... :(

Cornvalley - what were your troubles, if I may ask?

[T-Bird]

whole foods cashews are not raw.:eek:

Neither are trader joes:eek:

EVEN when they say RAW right there on the package:eek:

I paid 18/lb at the raw food store.

Sourced some online for 10-11/lb


Get a hold of really raw cashews - and see what happens

[RawSar]

Maybe try a different kind of nut butter if you think its the cashews.

Macadamia nut butter would be good with your mix.

My boyfriend is obsessed with his desert he has every night which is:
dates, honey, vanilla, macadamia nut butter - blended till smooth.

[spicyfull]

Nuts can be hard to digest, so don't eat them for Dinner and expect to get a Good Nnight Sleep. I would eat them earlier, say Lunch. Give it a Try.

[kaybee]

use avocado instead of the cashews?

[Myca]

Are you sure the problem isn't the coconut oil?

[Colorawdo girl]

Thirty years ago when I first started becoming vegan, etc. I developed an overly amorous affair with CB. Tubs and tubs would pass through my Champion and to my spoon/mouth.
Lot's o' trouble there.
I wish I had an intervention.
Careful lil' puddin' girl.
__________________this one bears repeating....hahahahahha tooo funny cornvalley.

[Veronica01]

to make pudding i use 1/2 avocado, 2 bananas and cocao and you get chocolate banana pudding... very rich so you don't need to eat much to feel like you're being spoiled.

[freshlight]

I don't believe cashews are raw even if it says raw on them: it's too much trouble to crack each nut and take the c-s out. They would have been extremely expensive then.
Take a little break and see what happens.

[Dimond]

There are hand-shelled cashews available. Think they're all imported. There's only 1 true raw cashew butter I know of-Better Than Roasted.