Do you like sunflower seeds?

United States
June 18, 2008 12:48pm CST
The picture shows them already deshelled, but I love to put a handful in my mouth and let the salting begin. Then I crack them with my teeth and eat the seeds. I usually eat them outside so I can litter the ground with spent shells. My kids crack them like peanuts in their hands and then eat the seeds. I've tried other kinds of flavors but the original ones are my favorite. When's the last time you had a handful of this fun food?
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@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
18 Jun 08
I just ate the last of the sunflower seeds I bought for my daughter this past Monday. I eat everything, thou, shell and all.
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• United States
19 Jun 08
Then spit it. lol
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• United States
2 Dec 09
hmmmmmmmmm....looks like someone is trying to play catch-up on their discussions. lol Thanks for the BR, git. :-)
• United States
19 Jun 08
I want to say something...
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
19 Jun 08
Oh my! I also love sunflower seeds so much! And every time I go to to buy groceries, Sunflower seeds will always be in my basket. They are so tasty and yummy! I love it's taste to my mouth and once I start eating I will not stop till I'm done with the whole pack. Know what, I always eat these seeds with my grandchildren (two years old - twins.) I'm teaching them at an early age to eat good nutritious food instead of indulging in junk food. Sunflower is very nutritious and fibrous so I recommend to all!
• United States
19 Jun 08
Now you just have to teach them how to spit them shells and you'll be grandmother of the year.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
19 Jun 08
No I patiently remove the shell before giving them and also sometimes I am buying the sunflower nuts so no more shells, ha! ha! ha!
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• United States
19 Jun 08
I too like sunflower seeds. I like to buy them unshelled. I love the original but also will buy ranch and jim bean barbecue kind.
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• United States
19 Jun 08
I tried the ranch but couldn't get into it. It was a little too much, but I've tried the BBQ kind and they weren't bad, just not my favorite. I love the original too. *Spit* Sorry, had to deshell while typing. :)
@mulau2u (1459)
• Malaysia
19 Jun 08
i working at the supermarket then it happen that i will have it frequently. it is nice to take it while watching a tv or watching movie, but one thing that i don't like this thing when other people will trow it shell anyway they like, it will make mess anyway, and i don't like to see it, if you working as a house keeping at hotel then you will hate this thing so much ;)
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• United States
19 Jun 08
I always make sure I'm outside when I eat them so I can discard the shells for nature to enjoy. That would annoy me if people did that in my home, I'd hand them a broom.
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
18 Jun 08
I like sunflower seeds too, thats all my nephews been eating this past week while he was here with me...lol. I can't remember when I had them last but it was the last time I ate them, I have high blood pressure, so that means I have to watch my salt intake. Well I bought a bag of sunflower seeds one time, it was a small bag, but I ate them all, and when I got up out of the chair I got dizzy and almost fell down..lol. I got dizzy everytime I moved my head, and my head was real swimmy feeling. I figured out it was the sunflower seeds I ate and the salt on them, my hubby took them away from and wouldn't let me have anymore. I thought it was funny, he didn't tho...lol.
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• United States
19 Jun 08
Now that's a legal buzz!
• United States
19 Jun 08
I like sunflower seeds. I used to play little league baseball so if I didn't have bubble gum in my mouth it was sunflower seeds. It's been awhile since I've had any but thats probaly because I wouldn't but them down until the bag was gone.
• United States
19 Jun 08
They are addictive. Play ball!
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
20 Jun 08
I love sunflower seeds as well. I like eating them when watching movies. It is lots of fun eating these delicious salty seeds sitting on the stone by the side of the stream. The spent shells moving away floating on the water. They form the beautiful designs on the surface of the flowing water. My kids do enjoy very much eating sunflowers seeds and groundnuts sitting by the side of the water with their bare feet soaking in the cool stream water in the same time. When seeing the shells to meet any obstacle, they will then stir the water to let them keep on moving forward.
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@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
18 Jun 08
I love eating sunflower seeds and I have the patient to remove the shell one by one while eating them..LOL, It's been a while I haven't eaten it. Last time my husband got it, it was the ready to eat! We ate the big jar less than a week!
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• United States
19 Jun 08
Bet you couldn't get your wedding ring off either. Pace yourself.
@youless (112123)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Jun 08
Yes, I like sunflower seeds. However, I found eating them really spend a long time. And it seems it's hard to stop unless you finish them. So most of the time I eat them in the holidays. I love China
• United States
23 Jun 08
I actually can't remember the last time I ate them. I'm in college right now and I think that the last time that I ate a few was when I was in high schoo. When I was in middle school sunflower seeds was like the "it" thing back them. We would always bring the little bags to school and eat them without the teachers knowing. And we would make these little shells holders out of papers to put the shells in there. But I love the salty shell too.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
18 Jun 08
I love sunflower seeds! I usually get them deshelled and roasted and salted, I can eat them plain and also they are great sprinkled on salads. I have a bag of them in my pantry in fact! I don't usually get them any other way, to me they are too much work to shell first.
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• United States
19 Jun 08
It keeps my kids mouths closed for a little while. :) I love them on salads too.
• India
16 Jul 08
Though I have heard about Sunflower seeds I haven't ever seen them.But I guess Sunflower oil is extracted using these seeds.But with regards to your question No I haven't seen sunflower seeds so I don't know if I like them:-)
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
18 Jun 08
I must admit I've never tried them! I feed them to my cockatiels, so next time I fill their hopper, I'll have a chew on one and try it!
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• United States
19 Jun 08
Don't eat the bird seed kind, you'll grow feathers! Get a bag at the market, the human kind, it will taste better anyway.
@wendy1980 (131)
• China
16 Jul 08
I like it very much, I like eating it when watching the Tv,it's very good!
@sylvia13 (1850)
• Nelson Bay, Australia
19 Jun 08
Oh yes, I love sunflower seeds! I used to eat them when I went to visit my mother and her husband Bill, who were living in Canada at the time. Now Bill has passed away, but the sunflower seeds still remind me of him!
@laglen (19759)
• United States
19 Jun 08
I take them camping or to outside events. We just went went to a blues fest and I took them along, last weekend?
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
19 Jun 08
those sunflower seeds for birds?? lol ^_^ Yeah, i do to eat them.. But i'm just lazy to deshell them.. lol ^_^ They taste nice, but just the thought of having to deshell them and keeping my place clean after that, deters me from eating it.. lol ^_^ BUt if i really wanna eat, i will make sure i eat a whole load of it and clear the whole mess once and for all.. hehe
@Carolxu (50)
• China
20 Jun 08
I love sunflower seeds.I always eat them while watching TV or reading magazine,it can make me more happy...I ate them yesterday and I also love peanut... But a Japanese friend of mine told me,Japanese people make the sunflower seeds as birds food,it's a little strange.ha ha....:)
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@rededdlog (118)
• Kenya
19 Jun 08
Never quite used the I understand they are used to make sunflower oil. I heard that they make antipest chemicals or something - or is that pyrethrum?
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@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
19 Jun 08
I love salted sunflower seeds and I like them with the shell. I do take the shell off with my mouth , but sometimes i will eat the shell, or save them up in a big lot with no shell. I seem to eat them much more in the summer . I think the ball players get me hooked.