The new issue of Cook Vegetarian Magazine landed at Munchy Towers on Friday. With it there’s a free booklet called ‘82 Miracle Meals’ and they’ve featured our delicious home made Munchy Seeds Cereal Bars recipe on page 9!

The booklet is incredibly informative – eg did you know that ‘Buckwheat’ is not a kind of wheat?  It is actually the fruit of a herb – and for nutritional purposes, it can be considered a ‘pseudo’ cereal!

Likewise, wild rice is not actually a rice but a type of aquatic grass!

Here’s the Munchy Seeds Cereal Bar recipe featured in the booklet:

Munchy Seeds Homemade Cereal Bars:

Over a low heat melt 60g butter and 40g margarine

Add 80g brown sugar & 2 Tsp of golden syrup

Mix in 150g Munchy Granola & 100g oats

Stir in the zest & juice of 1 lemon plus a pinch of salt

Spread mixture evenly over a non stick baking tray

Bake at 220C for 15 minutes (until golden brown)

Stand for a couple of minutes before scoring with a knife into cereal bar portions.

HAPPY MUNCHING ONE & ALL!!

We are putting the logos for these guys on our site pages,  but just wanted to let you know that Munchy Seeds products are approved by the Vegetarian, Vegan & Coeliac Society, and that, with the exception of Munchy Granola (because it contains honey & oats), our mixes are suitable for Vegetarians, Vegans & those following a gluten & wheat free diet.

We wanted to let you know that if you watch Ideal World TV this  weekend you’ll be able to get hold of  our special Munchy Seeds Breakfast Packs. Seeds are an excellent natural source of essential vitamins, minerals, oils and fibre so enjoying them at breakfast time is a great way to start the day. The Breakfast packs contain 6 tubs of seeds that are perfect to munch with cereal, yoghurt, fruit, toast or any combination you fancy at that time of the day, and we think that once you start, you’ll be hooked!

Breakfast Packs contain:

2 x Granola (sweet oat & seed blend) 200g Pot

2 x Vanilla Pumpkin (sweet pumpkin seeds) 200g Pot

1 x Original (savoury 2 seed blend) 200g Pot

1 x Omega 200g Pot

They’re available via Ideal World for £19.99, plus P&P. To get them online, visit the Munchy Seeds page via this link to the  Ideal World Website or give us a call on +44 (0)1728 833004

Ingredients

Beef Fillet
Rocket Salad
Cream Cheese
Omega Mix Munchy Seeds
French Bread stick
Roasted Pumpkin & Sunflower Seed Oil
Olive Oil

Method

Using a mixer briefly blitz the Omega Mix Seeds.
Cut the Beef Fillet into long Strips and roll into the Omega Mix seeds.
Using a very hot griddle mark the meat on all sides and roll tightly in cling film, and store in the freezer.
slice the French bread stick, lightly brush with olive oil and slow bake in a low temperature oven to make a crisp brochetta. When cool spread a dollop of cream cheese on the brochetta.
Cut very thin slices from the semi frozen meat and arrange on top of the cream cheese.
Toss the Salad Leaves in Roasted Pumpkin & Sunflower Seed Oil, season to taste and arrange on top of the carpaccio beef . Yum!

Our Omega Mix is packed full of Sunflower, Pumpkin, Sesame, Linseed, Flax, Rapeseed and Hemp seeds, all dry roasted with a dash of our special savoury sauce. The addition of rapeseed to this mix which is grown by a local farming friend of Crispin’s, increases the levels of Omega 3, 6 & 9, whilst the Hemp seeds give it a fantastic crunch. We sprinkle them on just about anything here at Munchy Towers, but think this pasta recipe is a great way to enjoy them at lunch or dinner or even breakfast if you fancy and is a deliciously healthy home made Munchy pesto, rich in Zinc, Iron & Vitamin E.

Ingredients:

50g Munchy Seeds Omega Mix

50g Parmesan Cheese

30g Fresh Basil

60ml Munchy Seeds Roasted Pumpkin & Sunflower seed oil

1 Garlic Clove

Handful of Rocket

Salt & Pepper to taste

Method:

Place all the ingredients  into a blender and blitz to desired texture, add more Munchy Seed oil if necessary.

Stir into hot pasta, add the fresh rocket & enjoy!

Vanilla Pumpkin Mix

This is a must for all you sweet toothed people out there – crunchy Pumpkin Seeds lightly dusted with a vanilla flavoured icing sugar. It is wonderful as a topping on any desert, or sprinkled over natural yoghurt for breakfast. It is also excellent as an after dinner nibble with a coffee.  We also like to make this scrummy cake with ours!

Ingredients:

3oz flour

6 oz ground Vanilla Pumpkin Munchy Seeds

6 oz caster sugar

2 oz melted butter

4 oz Munchy Seeds Roasted Pumpkin & Sunflower Oil

4 eggs

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 zest of a lemon

1 zest of an orange

Method:

Grind down vanilla pumpkin seeds. Melt butter & once cooled add the egss & Munchy Seeds oil, whisk together then fold in all other ingredients. Bake for 40 minutesat 180 degrees.

A healthy and nutritious cake, delicious with ice-cream or natural yogurt as a dessert or just to nibble on – Munch on!

It must be all the Christmas shows we’ve been to added to the fact that it’s now the 1^st of December –but things at Munchy HQ are getting increasingly excited & Christmassy! No decorations up in the office yet, but we are all thinking about presents:  Here’s the team’s letter to Santa so far:

Mrs Munchy: 1 or 2 fruit trees for the new orchard she’s planning on designing the minute she arrives back from NZ

Mr Munchy: Track day at Snetterton

Seedling Claudia: art pencils and paints to draw new Munchy animals and more scary bugs to scare her kiwi grandparents with!

Seedling Oscar: giant tarantula, to scare all his kiwi cousins with as it sneaks from under the Christmas tree during the big present opening session before lunch!

Tim: A large smoker so he can make his own smoked food

Glen: A new laptop  - was fiddling with his screwdriver and killed his last one!

Kevin: Some more pixi dust or one of santa’s helpers!

Rory the Rooster: The rocking new ‘Them Crooked Vultures’ album.

Gerty Goose: Anything from Cath Kidston, especially her kitchenware for lots of baking in the new year.

If you’re looking for the perfect present for any Munchy mad friends or family we’ve made two special Munchy gifts this year: Festive Gift Boxes & our scrummy Festive Mix. They are both available online via, www.munchyseeds.co.uk with free delivery if you spend over £25

Festive Gift Box: £14.00

The Munchy Seeds Festive Gift Box makes a great present for Munchy fans or those new to Munching:  3 x 200g  seed tubs and a bottle of our roasted Sunflower & Pumpkin seeds oil all packaged in a stylish Christmas Gift Box for just £14.00. The best thing  – Festive Gift Boxes can be customized to fit the taste of the person receiving them – as they are available in three varieties!

Sweet - Vanilla Pumpkin, Munchy Granola & Pumpkin Mix.
Spicy - Crunchy bites, Chilli Mix & Omega Mix.
Savoury - Omega Mix, Pumpkin Mix & Original Mix.

And….If you can’t decide whether your aunt is spicy or sweet, or your brother Crunchy or Original – we will customise the mix of tubs in your box – Just give us a ring  on +44 (0)1728 833004

Festive Mix: 120g £2.00

Yummy dry roasted sweet apricot kernels, pumpkin & sunflower seeds with a dash of savoury sauce…perfect for Christmas nibbling & brilliant as a stocking filler!

Cajun Mix is made from Sunflower, Pumpkin and Linseed with a healthy portion of Cajun Spice. It was the result of a competition amongst our production crew: the prize went to Chester, who’s American roots clearly influenced his choice of ingredients! Cajun Mix is great to munch as a snack on its own, but we think it also goes really well with the sweet taste of roasted tomatoes, and have put this recipe together for you to try.  Let us know what you think!

Ingredients
-Cherry Tomatoes, about 8 per guest
-Pesto Sauce (use olive oil to make thinner)
-½ Bunch fresh Basil
-Olive Oil
-Cajun Mix Munchy Seeds

Method
Sprinkle tomatoes with Olive Oil and cook in a very hot oven until the skins of the tomatoes crack. Peel them and arrange on your service plate with a drizzle of Pesto Sauce and sprinkle with Cajun Mix Seeds. Roughly chop up basil leaves and use to garnish.

On November 15^th, Londons’ Food & Drink Bloggers will be taking over the Hawksmoor steakhouse in Liverpool St, for the blaggers’ banquet.

The Blaggers’ Banquet will be an exciting 5 course dinner with matched drinks, created entirely by food and drink bloggers, using only food and drink that they have blagged in aid of Action Against Hunger. Munchy Seeds have donated a selection of their snack packs for the goody bags & several kilos of our new ‘Crunchy Bites’ for pre dinner nibbles & hope that it will be a fantastic day in aid of a very good cause.  Tickets are on sale now in pairs for £150 and one table of 5 for £375. 5 pairs of tickets will be auctioned started from £75.  Buy them here

I am afraid that we have run out of free tickets for the Christmas Grand Sale, however the kind people at the Festive Gift Fair  have sent us a wad of tickets for their show which is running from 19th to 22nd of November at the NEC in Birmingham.

If you would like to attend this event please email your address details and ticket requirements to sales@munchyseeds.co.uk asap.

Munchy Seeds stand number is G11, make sure you come and taste our limited Festive Mix and new Crunchy Bites.