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Seaweed Thins

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The last time I was there, I bought a brand called Takashima. It is a multi pack of small snack size packets of seaweed. the whole pack has only 12g of seaweed in, which sounds not a lot, but suits me just fine, I love them! These ones are 99.5 % seaweed and only contain 5g carb per 100g of product. They are not really crispy, but have a plant like texture and I eat them as they come, which loses the hunger pang I find. The shop has a good few varieties of seaweed and it comes in several forms.

On this packet, it says: Great with all types of dishes like omelettes, pizza, baked potatoes, rahmen, soup, udon, rice, soba, noodles,chirashi sushi, & etc. Kids love to eat them straight from the bag!
That is not my spelling, nor do I have an idea what some of those are! I, it seems must be a kid! :D

We use WH Lung, which does not have a website, but is huge with a great range of products from all over Asia. They have a restaurant above too which gets great reviews, though I have never eaten there. This: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WH-Lung-Chinese-Supermarket/148679191835327 is the companies facebook page. I also normally avoid facebook. I think they have one in the centre too, but cannot tell you where, Hardy street rings a bell...

I am pretty sure there are other supermarkets too, but have not used them, so you will have to google for them!
Take care. 🙂
 
I eat the seaweed thins as a snack with a packed lunch, crunched up very a salad, added to omelette, ...
 
@SB2015 - Hi - Seaweed is becoming to grow on me 🙂:DI rather fancy the idea of your suggestion of how to serve it - thanks, take care
 
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Tried these today. On offer £1.50 from Waitrose (normally £2). I thought they were 'okay' - as it's seaweed it's vegetarian but they do have quite a strong fishy type taste which may not appeal to everyone and put me off a bit. I've had fried seaweed in Chinese restaurants but I believe that is actually spring greens and therefore didn't have a strong taste like this. I've been a veggie for well over 25 years so it's a long time since I've eaten any fish. The packets only contain 15g in total with 3 smaller packets of 5g in each one. At that weight for cost they must be up there with saffron. 🙄:D I had the wasabi ones which weren't too hot.
 
I'm a Seabrooks ready salted man, can't be doing with these arty veggie snacks. I do use a lot of dried seaweed flakes in cooking, though, to give a real umami boost to the food.
 
I've bought some today. Haven't tried them yet.
 
I've tried them & tossed them in the bin. Disgusting wasn't the word!😱
 
HOBIE said:
That's what I think of CAKE & other sweet things. Its a good job we are all different :D
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I wish I had that attitude to cake.🙄
 
So far
- crushed and sprinkled on salad
- as a topping to an open sandwich
- an alternative to any crisps.
I will avoid the wasabi ones in future.
 
Sea weed Thins £2 per packet of 3. Bought them after reading the Forum, Was in the middle of learning counting Calories & Carbs, (has a newly diagnosed Type2). I laughed at the low Carb, but was learning the difficulty in buying food with low Calories & Carbs. Well I have just tasted the Seaweed Thins, I thought the taste was delicious, the texture I didn't expect, paper thin sheets of seaweed definitely a delicacy, when and IF I think of something to go with them, I would try them again, even though, I found them expensive. Thanks for the light hearted idea, a nice change from the problems of Diabetes. Cheers clive55555
 
clive555555 said:
Sea weed Thins £2 per packet of 3. Bought them after reading the Forum, Was in the middle of learning counting Calories & Carbs, (has a newly diagnosed Type2). I laughed at the low Carb, but was learning the difficulty in buying food with low Calories & Carbs. Well I have just tasted the Seaweed Thins, I thought the taste was delicious, the texture I didn't expect, paper thin sheets of seaweed definitely a delicacy, when and IF I think of something to go with them, I would try them again, even though, I found them expensive. Thanks for the light hearted idea, a nice change from the problems of Diabetes. Cheers clive55555
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Enjoy CLIVE 😎
 
SB2015 said:
Wasabi flavoured ones. A bit of a kick!!
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Reminds me of when my mother was visiting, took her out for an all you can eat Sushi.... She grabbed a spoonful of Wasabi & ate it.... Thinking it was like Guacamole....:D
 
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