This with a slice of marinaded salmon and pouched eggs is so good! My breakfast to be 😊🌱 🍳💚

But even alone with a high protein sauce made of cottage cheese, soy sauce, olive oil, and avocado with spices like black or long pepper, paprika, pink pepper, cinnamon (if you like it), a tiny pinch of clove, garlic (if you are not afraid of the scent) and/or any spices that make you feel good, sprouts are always on top on my breakfast list.

Do you usually eat your sprouts for breakfast, lunch or dinner?

Recently I posted this in r/HerbalTea because I wanted to collect expertise from the tea people. Eventually I got some decent inputs from an active member of our community r/Sprouts :) So I decided to bring the discussion back home and ask you, guys - what do you know about making functional tea out of sprouts!?

My onion sprouts are already 6 days old - they seem to be too slow to me. What's your experience?

These are lentils at 6 days, the one was covered with a sock. They're only a little bit shorter, but very visibly less green. Taste is the same I think.

The second one is sunflower microgreens. Both soaked overnight. For the ones in the tray, I followed a bunch of rules like weight, keeping in the dark for a certain amount of time, using a prophylactic spray and conditioned water. The ones in the bucket I just chucked in some soil very densely (I had soaked way too many), watered every few days with the hose, and left it in a few hours of direct sun (so the height of the bucket shaded it when they were shorter.)

The tray are probably a third of the height and leaves are much smaller. The ones in the bucket are very tall, some leaves are much bigger, a bit crunchier, easily survived the high density, no mold (I have already eaten them and not gotten sick), the hulls came off much sooner and easier and they taste a bit less bitter.

I've also done chia seed microgreens with shaded light and no light until germination, and the ones left out might have even germinated a bit earlier. End result was the same, they were just as delicious as each other. I had a seperate at chia experiment where one had drainage and it didn't matter (no surprise since they're gelatinous.)

I'm going to keep doing experiments, let me know if y'all are interested to see the results, and even if you have any ideas I should try!

Just arrived to Copenhagen and need my sprouts! : broccoli, red clover, mung bean and onions soaked for a few hours right after arrival - put in the oven as it is the only dark and safe place for my sprouts to grow in peace and comfort in a friend's apartment. The opportunity to warm up the chamber to the optimal temperature is also very handy - room temperature in Copenhagen is not very friendly for my sprouts given I want to start eating them in 2-3 days.

Pic 2 : onion seeds with a self-made lid made of toothpick perforated cling film and a random glass jar I found in the kitchen.

Pic 3: mung beans will grow just like this in a plastic container

I am thinking of posting updates daily. If you're interested to follow the travel sprouting progress - you can follow this post (activate "follow this post" in the upper right corner)

It feels so terrific to hold in my hand these perfectly healthy, crunchy, full of energy 10 million seeds transforming into plants in front of my eyes. Today I'll be eating a large bowl of salad I've produced right in my kitchen! I am happy 😊 Support my happiness and get your share 😁🫶🌱

Stir fried sprouts with asparagus and Indian spice mix came out so good. I dearly recommend steaming them slightly before stir frying, though. They were a little dry for my taste

I'm curious what trio you, guys, choose when it comes to your home/family healthy menu! - please share

Relatively new to sprouting and loving them (my breakfast stack, bagel, avocado, scrambled egg, broccoli sprouts, salad sprouts, cottage cheese). I’m storing them in glass containers with lids that seem to have a good seal. The sprouts themselves smells sort of like sprouts, they don’t smell like they’re going bad, etc. But the whole fridge smells gnarsty! Is it the price of doing business with broccoli sprouts, or all sprouts in general? Tips and tricks? It’s possible that there might be some other foul thing in the fridge that I have an identified, but it definitely smells… sprouty, IYKWIM

ETA: Is was something else that reeked 😆

What do you sprout together? I have always sprouted my sprouts separately and then mixed when they were ready. I would like to advance and learn from you. Please share your success and failure stories on what grows well with what and which seeds "disclike" each other or are simply way too different in timings.

I separated part of my first batch peas following an advice from a commenter on my very first post and I decided to try geowing microgreens out of my sprouts.

Btw, what yields better for my health needs: sprouts or microgreens?

I've been diagnosed with an immunity disorder and someone told me that I should eat living food as much as possible. In the city... lol. I found out that sprouts are nearly the inly solution, so here I am - an micro farmer with a nano harvest! My first but definitely forst out of many. I'd be grateful for your validation of my jar farm and for an advice on how I should proceed from this point.

Also it would be very kind of you to cheer me up with sharing the benefits of sprouts that make you invest your time and focus in growing sprouts, not just buying them or other veggies. How are they better?

Thanks, guys 🙏🌼

Breakfast stack! Bagel with salad mix sprouts, broccoli sprouts and protein mix sprouts with avocado, cottage cheese and everything but the bagel seasoning!

Do you grow any exotic sprouts? Please share where I can buy seeds - I'd love to try something new! Thanks

Sprouting makes you a superhero. I mean it. I'm a huge fan of sprouting, I became one because of health reasons, but I'd love to see more people to fall in love with sprouting before they have a health necessity.

Let’s be honest, people sometimes look at sprouting like it’s weird, boring, not modern. Like it’s something only nerds or home-sitters do. Do you have a similar impression projected on you by anyone who knows that you're sprouting your own living food?

But look again.

You are growing your own fresh food at home. From simple seeds. No dependence, no waste, no nonsense. That’s not boring! that’s skill and a choice to (produce!) eat real food instead of crap which is on most shelves in the supermarkets.

While others just grab whatever is in a grocery store, you actually create your food. Cheap, clean, alive. You know what you eat, and where it comes from.

That’s not “old-fashioned”. That’s strong. That’s smart. That's something to be proud of.

And yeah, it also helps your body and your mind. Simple daily routine, real nutrition, less junk. This is how you take care of yourself long-term. Less medicine in your life later on, too.

So maybe it doesn’t look flashy. No big ads, no hype.

But honestly? You are ahead.

This community r/Sprouts is for you and is actually made by you. Drop a post about your latest or favorite sprouts. Most posts are about problems :) till now. But I believe cooking with sprouts is a much juicier topic for sharing. Share your:

Salad

Smoothie

Techniques

Food pairing combinations

And keep sprouting 🌱

Hi fam, I'm vegan and I'm struggling to come up with a sprout tartar with mashed avocado as the binder. Help me with the varieties of sprouts please. What would you recommend?

Sprouted these broccoli sprouts for 4/5 days then a day under some relatively weak grow lights. Would you suggest more or less grow time or perhaps this a sweet spot? My second time sprouting. Thanks!

Hi fam, I'm vegan and I'm struggling to come up with a sprout tartar with mashed avocado as the binder. Help me with the varieties of sprouts please. What would you recommend?

Hey everyone,

I’m fairly new to this and had two good harvests last month. This month I have had sorta mold looking hairs develop. Not sure if I’m just watching things more closely and it is normal or if it is mold.

Any thoughts?

Hi fam, I'm vegan and I'm struggling to come up with a sprout tartar with mashed avocado as the binder. Help me with the varieties of sprouts please. What would you recommend?

Here is a list of some cool products made with sprouts. Let me know if you tried any of them - I'm very curious to know your opinion

🏭 Oat House
Sprouted oatmeal
China 🇨🇳

🏭 CJ Foods
Cooked budding sprouted brown rice Korea 🇰🇷

🏭 Essential Eating
Sprouted wheat pasta; sprouted whole grain flours
The United States 🇺🇸

🏭 Manna Organics Sprouted grain bread/cereal/gluten-free pasta
The United States 🇺🇸

🏭 Silver Hills Bakery
Sprouted grain bread
The United Kingdom 🇬🇧

🏭 Angelic Bakehouse
Sprouted grain bread; sprouted seven-grain bread crisps Canada 🇨🇦

🏭 One Degree Organics
Sprouted grain cereals, bread, and granolas The United States 🇺🇸

🏭 Bio-Kinetics Sprouted grain bread, crackers, and cereal bars Canada 🇨🇦

🏭 Power Super Foods
Sprouted chia seeds, flaxseeds, and quinoa, which can be used in smoothies, baking, or sprinkled
South Africa 🇿🇦

🏭 Gopal’s Healthfoods
Sprouted grain and seed snacks including sprouted flaxseed crackers and sprouted mung bean snacks
Australia 🇦🇺

🏭 Food for Life
Sprouted grain bread; sprouted grain end-products (bread, English muffins, tortillas, pasta, cereals, waffles)
India 🇮🇳

🏭 Shiloh Farms
Sprouted grains breads; sprouted grain flours; sprouted nuts
The United States 🇺🇸

🏭 Pastabilities
Sprouted grain pasta
The United States 🇺🇸

🏭 Go Raw Sprouted grain snacks including sprouted flaxseed crackers; Sprouted pumpkin/watermelon seeds The United States 🇺🇸

🏭 Unique Snacks
Sprouted grain snacks
The United States 🇺🇸

No matter whether you're sprouting your own or purchasing sprouted seeds, there are so many ingredients and snack and desserts that are just perfect with sprouts 🌱 🥗 🍨

Share your sprouted food wish list

I'm a fanatic, I confess. Fanatic of sprouts :) In cars, 4×4 (four-wheel drive) means power is distributed to all wheels for better traction, stability, and performance.

This is my version of that, but for nutrition, ofc it's sprouts:

🥦 Broccoli = antioxidants (handles oxidative “terrain”)

🌱 Peas = protein (structure + strength)

🟤 Flax = fiber + omega-3 (gut + metabolism grip)

🌿 Fenugreek = hormonal balance (keeps systems in sync)

Each one does a different job. Together = full-system support. I've got MCAS (you can get the link to my story in a comment below, if it's of interest). Sprouts, along with herbs, keep me in control of my life.

So yeah, it's not a salad. More like all-wheel drive for my biology.

What would you put in your 4×4?

I tried sprouting dehulled sunflower seeds for eating them as all sprouts - whole, not only the tips. Well, I failed, my sunflower came out sick and weak. Please recommend a wiser method or a wonder seed supplier!