{"id":26008,"date":"2026-01-05T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26008"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:59:08","slug":"here-are-ideas-for-adding-nuts-to-your-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/05\/here-are-ideas-for-adding-nuts-to-your-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are Ideas for Adding Nuts to Your Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26009\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nuts-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26009\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nuts-photo-from-Freepik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo from Freepik<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Add to salad dressings<\/em>: Creations include a basil walnut vinaigrette or creamy salad dressing with almonds, mustard, and dill with added chopped pine nuts.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to sandwiches<\/em>: Chopped walnuts, almonds, peanuts, and pecans add a toasty flavor and extra texture to grilled vegetable sandwiches, falafel, and hummus. Or add chopped nuts to smooth peanut, almond, or soy butters to make a crunchy sandwich.<\/li>\n<li><em>Use as garnish<\/em>: Increase protein, flavor, and texture by adding to bean and rice casseroles, baked potatoes, hot and cold cereal, baking batters, puddings, or vegan ice cream sundaes.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to pasta<\/em>: Top tomato-sauced pasta with chopped almonds or pine nuts, creamy-sauced pastas with walnuts or pecans, or toss pasta with olive oil, saute\u0301ed garlic, and chopped almonds.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to sauces<\/em>: Stir peanut butter or soy butter into mushroom sauces for a Thai effect; add ground almonds or pine nuts to creamy sauces and pecans or pistachios to fruit sauces.<\/li>\n<li><em>Add to breakfast<\/em>: Baked apples, oatmeal, hot cereals, cold cereals, and muffins can all benefit from a variety of chopped nuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add to salad dressings: Creations include a basil walnut vinaigrette or creamy salad dressing with almonds, mustard, and dill with added chopped pine nuts. Add to sandwiches: Chopped walnuts, almonds, peanuts, and pecans add a toasty flavor and extra texture to grilled vegetable sandwiches, falafel, and hummus. Or add chopped nuts to smooth peanut, almond, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26010,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008\/revisions\/26010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}