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We’re Going Nuts! 7 Places To Buy Nut Spreads & Milks That Taste So Good, You’ll Drool

We are going nuts… over nuts! Taking over the world by storm, nuts are essentially one of the healthiest snacks to reach out for when you are feeling a little peckish. We’re talking about locally made nut-based products like nut milk and nut spreads.

So, we found some healthy, interesting and delicious nutty concoctions from various artisans brands that you can get right here, on our sunny little island.

1) Baking Blocks

Baking Blocks’ has an amazing collection of Pure Hazelnut, Pure Almond and Pure Pistachio Pastes.

Made with nuts and only nuts, a jar of their nut paste is loaded with healthy and creamy goodness, without those nasty additional additives.

Open a jar of their nut paste and there – a whiff of fragrant, nutty aroma that you are so gonna love. Are you a baker? Use these nut pastes in your homemade baked goods. Or just spread a dollop of them generously onto your morning toast.

Be careful though, because eating them straight right out of the jar is an addictive vicious cycle.

Baking Blocks
$13.50 to $28.50 per 250g jar
Website

2) Wild Butter Co

Fresh batches of nut butters churn out from Wild Butter Co’s kitchen every Saturday.

With a new batch available every week, you can be sure that what you get is the freshest deal. 

Available in several interesting flavours, Wild Butter Co will not disappoint the adventurous and crazy side of your palate.

If you are going to only choose one item from Wild Butter Co, it will undoubtedly be their Earl Grey Peanut Butter.

The combination of freshly ground Earl Grey tea leaves with a base of peanut butter is so going to be love at first taste. Yum!

Wild Butter Co
$11.95 to $15.95 per 250g jar Credit: Nuts About Butter[/caption]

Fret not, it is not just about the good ol’ almond butter, because they have quite a few awesome nutty flavours in their collection.

The Almond Macadamia flavour is the bomb! Naturally rich and creamy macadamia nuts are added into their original almond spread to create a pleasant and delicious taste.

Nuts About Butter
$14 to $22 per 350g jar

Besides the fact that they are 100% raw & cold pressed, made to order, and are free from additives, they also come in interesting flavours. Think Choco Sutra, Chai Express and Longan Loco.

Longans are one of our favourite tropical fruits. A Juicery hit the nail on the head by infusing those sweet and juicy longans into a base of cashew milk.

The end product? A decadent healthy and sweet treat that relieves insomnia while keeping a healthy heart.

A Juicery5) Gorilla Press

Gorilla Press’ Nut Mylks are made from a blend of almonds and cashews, resulting in a perfectly rich and velvety nut beverage.

They use the traditional hang-squeeze and double-filtration method to produce their nut milks. By doing so, they retain the maximum nutritional values in their products.

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Lightly sweetened with medjool dates (one of the healthiest natural sweetener in the world), a bottle of nut mylk from Gorilla Press Co is packed full of energy and hence, makes a really great pre-workout meal or snack.

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Inspired by their Asian roots, flavours such as matcha and black sesame are blended into their nut milks to give them that extra oomph and creaminess.

Ditch that green tea latte from Starbucks and give their matcha nut milk a try!

Gorilla Press
Credit: HIC[/caption]

Taking such great care in perfecting their product formulations, the end products are a collection of high-quality and nutrient-packed beverages.

A great dairy-free perk-me-up from HIC is their coffee nut milk.

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It’s a really simple blend of almond milk, cold brew coffee and medjool dates. Now, you can perk yourself up the healthy way!

HIC
Address:
Cafe by HIC: #01-104, The Centrepoint, 176 Orchard Rd, Singapore 238843
Cafe by HIC: #02-63, Triplefit, Millenia Walk, 9 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039596
HIC POPUP: #B2-K6, Canal Level, The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956
The Shop by HIC: #02-470 Suntec City North Wing, 3 Temasek Boulevard, Singapore 038983
The Pantry by HIC: #B1-K09 Raffles City Mall, 252 North Bridge Road, Singapore 179103
7) Antidote

Antidote has stated that they choose their ingredients really carefully and use only top quality raw nuts in their beverages.

The result? Nut milks pumped with body-loving superfoods.

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A bottle of nut milk from Antidote is essentially a body-fueling nutritional powerhouse.

So abundantly filled with nutritional superfoods, a bottle is great enough to fuel your body for a workout, or until your next meal.

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Antidote’s Real Cacao Milk consists of a blend of almond milk with superfoods such as raw cacao, maca powder and cinnamon.

Unlike the usual chocolate milks that are filled to the brim with sugars and preservatives, Antidote uses raw cacao to give their nut milk that rich, chocolaty flavour.

Raw cacao is also extremely rich in antioxidants, so ladies, drink more of those to retain that youthful look!

A bonus: Maca root powder helps to keep you in shape by regulating the fat distribution process in your body!

Antidote
$99 for 6 bottles, 5ooml each9 Places With Wholesome Good Food That Will Inspire You To Eat Clean!

Under $25: 9 Super Local Christmas Gifts That Will Surely Amaze Your Friends!

Christmas is around the corner and Discover SG is here to save you from cracking your brains for the perfect Christmas gifts for your friends and family.

Read on for the best wallet-friendly picks from local brands and unleash your inner shopaholic!

1. For the couch potato

“I don’t want to go out lah, I’m very tired. I  just want to stay at home and nua.”

Know a friend who is just like that? This is the gift for him or her!

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Designed by I am not a couch potato notebook
Naiise
3 Gateway Drive, Westgate Mall #01-30, Singapore 608532
6 Eu Tong Sen Street Central, #02-23,Singapore 059817
112 East Coast Road, I12 Katong, #01-31/32, Singapore 428802
3 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec City North Wing #01-477, Singapore 038983
Opening Hours: 11am-10pm daily
Cost: $10.60
Website: Naiise

2. For the everything also DIY friend

If you know someone who loves DIY projects, this starter kit will allow your friend to express his or her creativity.

Who knows, maybe your Christmas gift next year will be created from this kit?

Cost: $15
Website: Credit: Naiise[/caption]

Not only will this Christmas gift allow our men to reminisce about their ah boys to men days, it will also keep them hydrated.

NS Jerry can bottle
Cost: $15.60
Naiise
3 Gateway Drive, Westgate Mall #01-30, Singapore 608532
6 Eu Tong Sen Street Central, #02-23,Singapore 059817
112 East Coast Road, I12 Katong, #01-31/32, Singapore 428802
3 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec City North Wing #01-477, Singapore 038983
Opening Hours: 11am-10pm daily
Website: Naiise

4. For the super local friend

Soy milk and youtiao are a common sight in our heartlands. Who doesn’t enjoy dipping a youtiao into a piping hot cup of soy milk?

If your friend is crazy about all things local, she will be squealing in delight when she sees this cute little tote bag that can be paired easily with casual wear.

5. For the colleague:

Need we say more? We are in love with this sketchpad full of humorous Singlish phrases that most of us can identify with!

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The sketchpad also comes with blank pages for your colleague to express his creativity or include his toilet humour to explain why he is not at his desk.

TEE-SAURUS Office Buddy sketchpad
Cost: $18.90
Naiise
3 Gateway Drive, Westgate Mall #01-30, Singapore 608532
6 Eu Tong Sen Street Central, #02-23,Singapore 059817
112 East Coast Road, I12 Katong, #01-31/32, Singapore 428802
3 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec City North Wing #01-477, Singapore 038983
Opening Hours: 11am-10pm daily
Website: Naiise

6. For the fashionista:

What better way to surprise a fashionista than with this chio little lip and cheek tint from Credit: Shophouse Sixtyfive[/caption]

Your friend can pack this niffy beauty kit into her make-up pouch and start being a chio bu immediately after receiving your Christmas gift.

Wah Chiobu Lip & Cheek Tint
Cost: $18.90
Shophouse Sixtyfive
Spurhauswerks, Orchard Central, #02-22, 181 Orchard Rd, Singapore 238896
The Nail Social, 42A Haji Lane  2nd floor (opposite vaingloriousyou)
Website: Credit: Ette Tea Company[/caption]

This Nasi Lemak tea – yes, you heard us right, was inspired by one of our popular local dishes. It is made up of a fragrant mix of houjicha, genmaicha, coconut flakes, as well as local favorites such as dried pandan, dried chilli and flavouring. Don’t say Discover SG bojio!

Naiise
Address:
3 Gateway Drive, Westgate Mall #01-30, Singapore 608532
6 Eu Tong Sen Street Central, #02-23,Singapore 059817
112 East Coast Road, I12 Katong, #01-31/32, Singapore 428802
3 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec City North Wing #01-477, Singapore 038983
Opening H0urs: 11am-10pm daily
Website: Naiise

8. For the bookworm:

If your friend always has his nose in a book and fancies a quiet Christmas, this debut collection of short stories by local author Credit: Books Actually[/caption]

In “Fourteen Entries from the Diary of Maria Hertogh”, Amanda Lee Koe shows what it is like to explore Singapore’s history through the eyes of Maria Hertogh, a Dutch girl who sparked riots in Singapore in the 1950s.

While another story, “The Ballad of Arlene and Nelly”, traces the past of two lesbians over a thirty-year period.

Apart from winning the and selected by The Business Times as one of the Cost: $22
Books Actually
9 Yong Siak Street Singapore 168645
Opening Hours: Sunday & Monday 10am – 6pm, Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 8pm
Website: Credit: Naiise[/caption]

It can hold notes, cards and even loose coins! Your man will feel proud when he uses this money clip.

Tilea Leather Money Clip
Cost: $25
Naiise
3 Gateway Drive, Westgate Mall #01-30, Singapore 608532
6 Eu Tong Sen Street Central, #02-23,Singapore 059817
112 East Coast Road, I12 Katong, #01-31/32, Singapore 428802
3 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec City North Wing #01-477, Singapore 038983
Opening Hours: 11am-10pm daily
Website: Naiise

Now that you have read our quick cheat sheet to Christmas gift shopping, what are you waiting for? It’s time to get shopping!

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