Oat and Almond Flour

I needed to use the food processor tonight to make peanut butter.  I like the ability of the food processor, but there's a lot of parts to wash afterwards.  Thus, I like to optimize my usage by making multiple things with it.  There's a few recipes I've been meaning to try that call for oat flour or almond flour.  I made a batch up of them before making the peanut butter.

 
Oat flour: Take Old Fashion Oats.  Run through food processor until fine grained like flour.  Store in baggie in freezer until needed.

Almond flour: Take Almonds.  Run through food processor until grainy like flour.  Be careful about running too long or you'll start to change it into almond-butter.  That's good food, but it is not the same use as almond flour.  Store in baggie in freezer until needed.


Food processor versus blender: Oat flour will come out fine in a blender instead.  I haven't tried making almond flour in a blender.  Almond flour is so high in calories this is the first I've made it since I've lost weight.


Buying these flours at the store is like paying for gourmet upscale food.  But, you can buy the generic oats and almonds and then crank this flour out cheap.  (Ok, almonds are expensive even if generic, but still...)

You can make a batch and keep in the freezer for when you want to use it.  However, both are higher on calories than wheat flour, so keeping on hand may not be best depending on where you are with your weight loss journey.

Calorie Line Up per 100 grams:

• White Whole Wheat Flour: 330 calories, 13g protein, 0g unsaturated fat
• Oat Flour: 375 calories, 26g protein, 9g unsaturated fat
• Almond Flour: 570 calories, 21g protein, 45g unsaturated fat

The Oat and Almond flour nutrition info by weight is the same as regular info of the originals.  Of course, by volume it is completely different.  Oat flour is a bit more than the flour I use.  But to be fair, it is on par with other varieties of wheat flour.  It could be more or less than the kind of wheat flour your using, so about an even call if you want to try replacing wheat flour for oat flour.  On the other hand, almond flour is 1.7x times wheat flour in calories.  Thus, I wouldn't be rushing to use it, unless you have the calories to spear.  As for me, I've got spring gardening on the way, so I will have tons to spear :)