Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: IAD, and sometimes OMNI/PR. Currently: not far from IAD, but home will always be SAN (not far from the "touch my junk and I'll have you arrested" Memorial TSA Check Point) even if I'm not there so much these days.
Programs: UA, CO, Calcifer Award for Mad Haiku Skillz
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I grind the flax seeds with an electric coffee grinder before adding them to the blender to ensure they get broken up. If the seeds remain intact (unbroken) the good stuff--omega 3s, etc--doesn't get released.