We’re proud when our products are featured in print and on the web. They’ve been highlighted in wedding magazines like Martha Stewart Weddings, health publications like Prevention, and even a feature film (see below). We encourage you to try these star products for yourself!

1. Organic Peanut Butter Stock
Featured in: Prevention

This year, we received one of Prevention’s Cleanest Packaged Food Awards for our organic peanut butter stock, which is perfect for making organic peanut butter! According to Prevention, “The products we chose met some pretty strict standards: they’re all GMO-free, have no more than 10 g of added sugar, contain no more than 200 mg of sodium (400 for a meal)…finally, they had to be absolutely delicious.”

2. Hibiscus Flowers and Almond Paste
Featured in: Love & Olive Oil

The husband and wife team behind this blog about culinary adventures at home used our hibiscus flowers in their recipes for Hibiscus Mango Sorbet and Hibiscus Flower Enchiladas. Hibiscus flowers also make a great hot or cold tea. Love & Olive Oil also featured our almond paste in their recipe for Chocolate-Glazed Almond Horns, which looks mouth-wateringly delicious!

3) Salted Roasted Cashews
Featured in: Some Girl(s) film

Our salted roasted cashews showed off their thespian chops in the opening scene of Some Girl(s), which premiered this spring at SXSW. Watch a clip from the film. Roasted cashews are great for snacking or using in salads!

4) Sixlets and Gumballs
Featured in: Hostess with the Mostess

Hostess with the Mostess, a blog on modern entertaining, featured our sixlets and gumballs in a post about a sprinkles themed birthday party for a 10-year-old girl. The party included a tasty-looking yogurt bar. Sixlets are also a popular candy to feature in wedding candy buffets because they come in many gorgeous colors!

5) Wasabi Peanuts
Featured in: Health magazine, May 2013 issue

Health magazine’s May print issue features our wasabi peanuts in a piece called “8 Nutty Snacks Under 80 Calories.” Not only are they low in calories, but they’re also high in flavor! The spice of the wasabi will make your mouth tingle. These snacks are great for parties, because people can’t get enough of them!

For more featured products, see our previous post, 6 Featured Products You’ll Love.

Mother’s Day is coming up on May 12, and you’ve come to the right place to find the perfect present for your mom. We have something she’ll love, whether she is a chocoholic, a health nut or a versatile foodie. Secure your place as Mom’s favorite this year!

Hand-Picked Mother’s Day Gifts

1.  Movie Tin Assortment

Bring the movie theater home by giving your mom her favorite flick and this movie tin assortment with all the classic favorites – Milk Duds, chocolate-covered raisins, chocolate-covered peanuts, chocolate non pareils, Twizzler bites, Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids.

2. All-Natural Gift Basket

Show your mom a little TLC with this gift basket full of delectable all-natural treats, including antioxidant mix, heart healthy mix, raw cashews, mesquite pod walnuts, honey vanilla energy squares and organic peanut butter.

3. Sugar-Free Tin

Even if your mom is watching her sugar intake, she can still indulge in some decadent Mother’s Day gifts. Our sugar-free tin contains 3 lbs. of sugar-free treats: dark chocolate almonds and espresso beans, milk chocolate peanuts and yogurt raisins.

4. Box of Love

This big box of love is sure to be an ideal Mother’s Day gift. It includes favorites such as mixed nuts, dried apricots, pastel chocolate blueberries, honey cashews and jumbo buttercrunch.

5. Custom Tray

Make a custom tray that caters just to your mom’s tastes. Choose from 150 different nuts, sweets and dried fruits to create the perfect blend.

Browse our wide selection of Mother’s Day gifts. 

What are you getting your mom this year for Mother’s Day?

Recently, customer Amanda Hoffman Robinson posted this question to the Nuts.com Facebook page:

I have a request. My husband is nuts for Nuts.com, and we have so many bags in the kitchen. I’d love it if you would have your customers post pictures of their storage solutions, to give me ideas of the most efficient way to store your products!

Plenty of other customers posted pictures of their nutty food storage ideas. We’ve created a Facebook album to showcase their solutions and would like to share a few here:

Joe Tuttolomondo stocks a whole kitchen cabinet with Nuts.com goodies. He writes, "We've officially gone NUTS!"

Gigi McClain stores jumbo peanuts in Ziploc bags and fills a cupboard with them! She says, "This is my 4th order of 25lbs of jumbo raw peanuts. I LOVE EM! I'm roasting some now."

Jamie Bull-Valeri writes, "How we store our nuts.com food!" Jamie fills jars with our products and prints out labels for them.

Vapor S Thompson dedicates a kitchen cabinet to our products. He writes, "Thanks for the fast shipping to Canada. Both offices are fully stocked with brain food now."

"Goin nutty over here!" writes Lynde B. Steensen, who stores her Nuts.com bags on her pantry shelves, some in small plastic tubs.

Simplify with a Daily PUSH writes, "This is how I store all of our nuts from Nuts.com" -- in OXO pop-top containers.

If you have food storage ideas to share, leave a comment or post a picture to the Nuts.com Facebook page!

It’s time to celebrate our nutty obsession with the only tree nut native to North America… the pecan! April is National Pecan Month, and we are more than happy to dig into our favorite pecan treats.

1. Roasted Pecan Halves

These fresh roasted, lightly salted Georgia pecan halves are full of crunchy flavor. Pecans are a great source of vitamin E, zinc, fiber and protein and have been shown to lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels and raise HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels. Eat them plain as a high-energy snack or crumble them over oatmeal or salads.

2. Chocolate Pecans

Our chocolate pecans are the perfect blend of two of our favorite foods. Rich, creamy and crunchy all in one!

3. Praline Pecans

Mix up sugar, butter and pecans and the result is a sweet Southern praline you won’t be able to resist.

4. Organic Date Pecan Rolls
We cover our organic date rolls in organic chopped pecans to make a sweet and naturally delicious snack.

5. Butter Pecan Coffee

A cup of our butter pecan coffee is the perfect way to start your day. Its rich, roasted flavor will have you looking forward to your morning.

6. Caramel Pecan Fudge

We blend our caramel-flavored fudge with hearty pecan pieces to create a rich, creamy bite-sized dessert.

What are your favorite pecan snacks? Share in the comments!

Talk about a nutty holiday! Today is National Peanut Lovers Day, and we are taking that as a sign to enjoy some of our most delicious peanutty treats.

You can feel good about joining us in snacking. Peanuts are a great source of protein, and research shows that diets higher in monounsaturated fats from peanuts and peanut butter reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by 21 percent, compared to the average American diet. Here are a few of our favorite peanut snacks!

1. Jumbo Roasted Peanuts

Our jumbo roasted peanuts will take you back to sunny days spent at the ballpark. We take fresh Virginia peanuts and roast them without salt so you can appreciate their wonderful natural flavor.

2. Buffalo Peanuts

Our buffalo peanuts are flavored with an addictive blend of sweet and spicy seasonings, perfect for a party appetizer or a snack on the go.

3. Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

Peanut butter and dark chocolate together? Yes, please! We fill our decadent, premium dark chocolate cups with creamy peanut butter for a taste that is unbelievable.

4. Blister Peanuts

Our blister peanuts are a new item at Nuts.com and already receiving rave reviews. We boil them in water, then roast them and sprinkle them with salt for a seriously crispy snack.

5. Peanut Brittle

Some things never go out of style. Our old-fashioned peanut brittle is just as good as you remember it from your childhood: sweet, crunchy and tasty.

What are your favorite peanut snacks? Browse more Nuts.com peanut products!

Earlier this week, we shared the good news that eating a Mediterranean diet full of nuts, fruit, vegetables, legumes, fish and olive oil has powerful health benefits, lowering the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease. The landmark new study, published on the New England Journal of Medicine’s website this week, even supports drinking a glass of wine with meals, so pour yourself a glass of your favorite red and try one of these delicious Mediterranean diet recipes. Your heart and your taste buds will approve!

1. Pasta with spinach, garbanzo beans and raisins

You can prepare this simple weeknight dinner almost entirely from ingredients you already have in your kitchen — pasta, garbanzo beans, golden raisins, fresh spinach, olive oil and parmesan cheese. Soak dried garbanzo beans overnight and use them in place of canned beans (they are inexpensive and tasty).

2. Lamb chops with pistachio gremolata

These flavorful lamb chops only take a few minutes of preparation and cooking time. Mix salt, cumin, coriander, ground cinnamon and black pepper together and sprinkle over the lamb chops. Cook in a skillet over medium-high heat, and sprinkle with chopped pistachios, parsley, cilantro, lemon rind, salt and garlic.

3. Goat Cheese, Cranberry and Walnut Canapes

These goat cheese canapes are an impressive appetizer or side dish that you can throw together in a few minutes. Coat baguette slices with olive oil and spread with goat cheese mixed with dried cranberries and thyme. Top with walnut halves seasoned with cinnamon and salt and pepper.

4. Quinoa Salad With Pears, Baby Spinach and Garbanzo Beans

This hearty quinoa salad is gluten-free and vegetarian and a snap to make. Cook quinoa on the stovetop; when it is finished, add baby spinach, sliced pears, chopped parsley and garbanzo beans. Finish with toasted pecans and a maple-balsamic vinaigrette.

What Mediterranean diet recipes do you love to cook at home? Share your favorites in the comments.

Chances are, you have heard a friend or colleague or family member talking about the “paleo diet” within the last year. So what’s it all about?

This eating plan is based on the idea that modern processed foods are making us unhealthy and that people should instead eat wholesome foods that our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have presumably eaten about 10,000 years ago. These foods include fresh meats (preferably grass-fed, free-range or wild), seafood, fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts and healthy oils (olive, coconut, avocado, macadamia, walnut and flaxseed) but exclude dairy products, cereal grains, legumes, refined sugars and processed foods.

Dr. Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet and a number of other books, sums it up on his website:

With readily available modern foods, the Paleo Diet mimics the types of foods every single person on the planet ate prior to the Agricultural Revolution (a mere 333 generations ago). These foods (fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, and seafood) are high in the beneficial nutrients (soluble fiber, antioxidant vitamins, phytochemicals, omega-3 and monounsaturated fats, and low-glycemic carbohydrates) that promote good health and are low in the foods and nutrients (refined sugars and grains, trans fats, salt, high-glycemic carbohydrates, and processed foods) that frequently may cause weight gain, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and numerous other health problems.

Want to explore the paleo diet? Whip up one these three tasty paleo-friendly recipes to give it a try.

1. Stuffed Grape Leaves (Dolmas)

These bite-sized stuffed grape leaves offer a satisfying blend of sweet and savory flavors — ground lamb, pine nuts, raisins or currants, dried mint and fresh parsley. Serve them as a hearty appetizer or as a main course.

2. Muesli Scones

If you can’t bear the idea of giving up pastries, these muesli scones will ease your anxiety. The recipe uses blanched almond flour as a base, adding dried cranberries, dried apricots, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pistachios and honey or agave nectar for a natural crunchy sweetness.

3. Beef and Vegetable Chili

This chili recipe makes enough to feed a crowd, but you might not want to share! Each bowl is full of flavor from beef, fresh vegetables and chili peppers, coconut oil, chili powder, sea salt, cumin, oregano, thyme and topped with a rich dollop of coconut milk.

What are your favorite paleo diet recipes? Share them in the comments!

Get out your jerseys and assemble your buddies, because Game Day is almost here! What could pump up your energy more than a satisfyingly crunchy snack mix? To fulfill cravings for sweet, salty, or spicy munchies, we recommend filling a few bowls with different types of mixes. Here are 5 nutty snack mix recipes from tasteofhome.com that will be a hit with your pals.

1. Spicy Chex Mix

Caution: Excessive celebration may take place after eating this mix. This nutty snack mix recipe combines Chex cereal, Cheerios, almonds, pecan halves, paprika onion powder, hot sauce, and dried cranberries for a sweet-tart kick.

2. Honey Nut Crunch Mix

If you’re in the mood for salty and sweet with a little spice, this nutty snack mix recipe will quell your craving. Combine smooth peanut butter, honey nut cereal, mixed nuts, mini pretzels with butter, vanilla, cinnamon, and cayenne.

3. Kickin’ Cheddar Mix

This kickin’ snack mix recipe will make your tastebuds do a victory dance! It’s crunchy, nutty, and creamy all at once, full of crispy cereals, pretzel sticks (or sesame sticks), cheddar cheese crackers, mixed nuts, pistachios, seasoned with spices like cayenne pepper and dill weed. Yum!

4. Confetti Snack Mix

This sweet and crunchy Confetti Snack Mix is a hit with kids! It’s so simple to make that they can do it themselves. Just mix Golden Grahams cereal with dry roasted peanuts, banana chips, raisins, and milk chocolate M&Ms, and you have yourself a tasty treat!

5. Blizzard Snack Mix

Those who love sweet and salty pretzels will devour this Blizzard Snack Mix. Combine miniature pretzels with roasted peanuts and chopped caramels, then toss with melted white chocolate chips. Can you imagine anything more tempting?

If you’d rather order your snacks than prepare them yourself, check out our Top Treats for the Super Bowl!

We truly appreciate the work that our military servicemen and servicewomen do every day. Many of them are stationed overseas — on ships and submarines, on bases and in combat zones — and must spend long periods of time away from their families and friends without the comforts of home.

With the help of our generous customers, we have tried to give a little bit back to those who serve our country, sending more than 1,000 care packages to troops stationed abroad through the Nuts for Our Troops program. The program has been going strong since 2007, and we couldn’t have done it without your amazing support!

Nuts for Our Troops: 2 Easy Ways to Get Involved

1. Send treats to someone you love.

If you have a friends or family members stationed overseas, we make it simple (and super fast) to send them any of our products. Enter the recipients’ APO or FPO address at checkout when you purchase your goodies, and we’ll get them delivered in just a few days.

• Send true love (and chocolate!) this Valentine’s Day
• Send your tough guy or gal this basket o’ spicy goodies
• Make a custom trail mix that’s tailored to a special someone’s taste buds

2. Brighten the day of someone you don’t know.

If you don’t know anyone serving abroad in the military, you can still help out! Buy a Nuts.com care package and send it to someone who will greatly appreciate a taste of home. For just $30, we will send a delicious 7 lb. snack pack to one of the people listed in our database of overseas troops. The snack pack includes our:

Gummy bears
Spicy southern heat mix
Roasted sunflower seeds
Fresh roasted peanuts
Naturally sweet dried mango
Energy-packed health mix
Protein-rich power mix

Sending a care package is a wonderful way to show our troops that we’re thinking of them. You can even include a message to the recipient and include your email address so he or she can write to you personally. Here is some mail we’ve received from appreciative recipients:

“My name is Eric Athman and I am a 2nd Lieutenant in the Minnesota National Guard. I am currently stationed at Camp Bondsteel in Southern Kosovo. My platoon and I are all a part of KFOR9. We are here to provide a safe and secure environment in Kosovo as they transition into an independently governed nation. We are stationed here for roughly a year and it has been somewhat difficult being away during the holiday season. Your care package of assorted nuts really helped boost the morale of my platoon.” - 2LT Eric Athman, Kosovo 

“WOW!! What a surprise. A box filled with all kinds of goodies. This was a great idea, and beyond a thoughtful donation… NUTS for our Troops is an amazing program, thank you again for the support and dedication of the troops in Afghanistan, especially the 864th Engineer Company.” – Angela B. Averill, Sharana, Afghanistan

“I just received a package today from NutsOnline.com that someone sent me from back home. I absolutely love everything that was in the package and the guys in my division are loving it as well. Thank you for the support you give us military men and women. You guys are awesome!!” - Ray, USS San Jacinto

We care so much about this program that 10 percent of all military-related orders goes straight back into the Nuts for Our Troops program! We hope you’ll join us and send a care package of your own.

Get involved! 

The Big Game is almost here. Have you stocked up on munchies? Whether you’re going to a neighborhood party or are hosting one yourself, you’ll want to share a few crunchy mixes to satisfy your hungry pals. After all, adrenaline-fueled cravings are serious business! Here are five delicious game day snacks that are sure to please any crowd.

1. Mix of Champions

Wish your team luck by noshing on the Mix of Champions. This spicy, salty, and smoky mix is packed with hickory smoked almonds, edamame, salted macadamia nuts, chili bits, buffalo peanuts, and cheddar sesame sticks.

 2. Bar Mix

5. Mix of the Man

This is a mix for those who are “man enough” to handle the heat. This unique mix is packed with hickory smoked almonds, cajun corn sticks, mixed nuts, toasted corn, cajun peanuts, dried strawberries, and M&M’s. The Mix of the Man is chock-full of sweet heat. Heat-seeking ladies, you’ll enjoy this, too.