People usually eat nuts on their own, by the handful, which can be a dangerous practice. You won’t feel deprived when you top your apple or celery slices with peanut butter. Keep portions small and avoid mindless eating.

Pre-portion nuts in small bags — a great snack to take on the go or to the office. Choose nuts in the shell; you will probably eat fewer since it takes time to crack them. Take a handful and put the package away before you start munching. Sprinkle nuts on a soup or salad instead of croutons or cheese. Snack on nuts instead of pretzels or chips. Top yogurt with nuts instead of granola.

Add the delicious flavor and crunch of nuts to all kinds of foods from sweet to savory. Toasting them first will bring out their flavor and enhance a simple dish.

Top hot or cold cereal with gourmet nuts for a nourishing breakfast. Sprinkle gourmet nuts on top of nonfat yogurt. Pasta comes alive when sprinkled with chopped nuts. Slivered almonds do wonders for everything from chicken to desserts. Add crunch and satiety to bread, pancakes, waffles, or muffins with nuts. Mix nuts with light cream cheese for a delicious spread. Add gourmet nuts to popcorn for a tasty snack. Enhance the flavor of steamed veggies with a handful of gourmet nuts. Don’t forget that peanuts are an excellent food source of vitamin E. They also provide approximately 2 grams of fiber per ounce, and have relatively high amounts of folic acid, thiamin, niacin, copper, manganese, phosphorous, magnesium, and zinc. They are high in plant protein and the fat content is primarily monounsaturated and polyunsaturated, both”good fats”.

Go nutty with 1 oz of nuts per day. You’ll reap all kinds of health benefits. You’ll find lots of healthy virginia peanuts at http://www.virginiagourmetpeanuts.com/.

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Peanuts are grown in the warm climates of Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. India and China together account for more than half of the world’s production. The United States has about 3% of the world acreage of peanuts, but grows nearly 10% of the world’s crop because of higher yields per acre. Other major peanut growing countries include Senegal, Sudan, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Malawi, and Nigeria.

In the U.S. these are the major peanut producing states: VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA FLORIDA, ALABAMA, TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, NEW MEXICO.

In the United States, nine states grow 99% of the U. S. peanut crop: Georgia (which grows about 39% of all U. S. peanuts), followed by Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, Virginia, South Carolina and New Mexico. These states are grouped into three regions. The Georgia-Florida-Alabama region (Southeast) grows mostly the medium-kernel Runner peanuts. The Southwest region (Texas-Oklahoma-New Mexico) grows Spanish and Runner. The Virginia-Carolinas area grows mostly the large-kernel Virginia type peanut. About 55% of all U. S. peanuts are grown in the Southeast, with the Virginia/Carolina area accounting for 14% and the Southwest, about 30%.

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Our family has been growing the finest jumbo gourmet Virginia peanuts since the late 1800’s on our 3,000-acre farm in Southampton County, one of the largest peanut-producing counties in the United States.

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We select the largest size peanuts of our crop to produce our in shell jumbo Virginia peanuts. They are then slowly roasted to perfection using our old fashioned recipe. We then offer them as roasted in shell jumbo peanuts either unsalted, salted, or Cajun.

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