Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…

…better known as The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole is a favourite of mine but no, it’s not Christmas yet, not by a mile since it is only the end of March.

All our lives, we hardly got to eat chestnuts except when we stumbled upon one (or half of it) in our bak chang (meat dumpling). I do not recall ever eating it anywhere else except for one occasion when my missus and I were on holiday in Hong Kong or Taiwan and somebody was roasting them in some coffee beans in a huge wok by the roadside and of course, I bought some to try. It certainly did not leave a lasting impression as I do not recall getting all excited eating them.

We are luckier these days as we can buy these…

…very easily at the shops. My girl loves them a lot so we would buy them quite often and she would eat most, if not all, of them.

According to this website, the health benefits from eating chestnuts include promoting stronger bones, maintaining blood flow rate, providing cognitive therapy, easing intestinal discomforts, helping cleans the body of free radicals and toxins, preventing illness, aiding diabetes, and fostering pregnancy. Other benefits are easing respiratory diseases, promoting healthy thyroid function and providing stable energy. You can read more about the benefits of chestnuts here as well.

I checked the packet for the added ingredients but it looked like there wasn’t any…

There is sugar in the nuts though…

…and I particularly like that piece of advice at the end: Eat all foods in moderation.

Of course, at the price that they are selling them for, I guess one would not have much of a choice other than to eat them in moderation. Inside a packet, there are two smaller packs of 60 gms. each…

I guess this way, you will not have to open all at one go and can keep the remaining half fresh in the sealed packet. I wish they had used those very convenient resealable packs though.

Inside each of the packets, you will find around 10 chestnuts…

…only, around 20 altogether for RM6.30. OUCH!!! That works out to around 30 sen each! I guess we’ll just have to eat very very slowly, savouring the taste of each one of them as much as we can before swallowing. LOL!!!