;-)
Although we snacked on grains, we weren't trying to graze our
diet. I suppose if we had to provide our own food, we would hve
done more than snack on the grain. I am sure that anybody would
recourse to mechanicaly separating teh grain from the chaff by
rubbing it between rocks - we didn't because we could alwaysgo
home for lunch ;-)
margali
[particularly fond of almonds too!]
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> >Periodically
> >you take a grain out of your pocket and crunch it between your
> >molars to make the outer sheath of bran loosen so yu can eat the
> >grain and spit out the bran husk.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. That limits the amount of grains con-
> sumed very much, I think.
>
> >In all reality, it is just as annoying [to me at least] to sit
> >there and hull and crack open walnuts and almonds in large
> >amounts  as it is to thresh and winnow grains.
>
> Well, if you crack open nuts or almonds you win some grams of
> eatable stuff while single grains are below one gram. Also nuts
> contain fat, so they have much more calories.
> Therefore I prefer nuts. :-)
>
> Best raw regards,
>
> Stefan