Nut Blog

From the President:My father ran away from home at 17 and joined the Army. He'd grown up on a farm in Three Oaks, Michigan with a younger brother, Richard, mother, an ultra-stern father, and a grandmother. Three Oaks was a small rural town where men hunted and wore Elmer Fudd-looking hats. Both my dad and uncle were handsome young men. My father, Carl, got his blonde looks from his father, and uncle Richard got his dark looks from his mother. My dad didn’t get along well with his dad at …

Over the years, customers have been asking me about storing nuts, roasting nuts and ways to use nuts. It’s finally time to respond to you with all the information I’ve gleaned over the last 30 years. I’m not a food scientist, but I do know nuts. I’m in the right business; I love nuts!You might find other information elsewhere that varies a little. I’ve seen it myself. This is the way I do it, and frankly, in my opinion, there are very few hard and fast rules to any of this. When we …

This Saturday, July 24th, will be the 1-year anniversary of our first sale of surplus airline nut mixes on our web site GreatNuts.com. The airlines took our nuts off of their first class service due to COVID-19 and we had a crisis on our hands. At the time we had over 70,000 1.25 lb. bags of the mixed nuts, plus enough ingredients at our plant to produce an additional 30,000 bags. That was over 125,000 lbs. of surplus nuts. To move them before they went out of date we sold them at nea …

As a small woman-owned and family-run business, we all wear many, many hats. And we are all running in different directions throughout the day, asking questions to each other as we pass each other in the hallways. I don’t get many opportunities to give a big hug of thanks to my team, much less recognize them in writing, so here it is!Heading my team is my stepson, David Milroy. When I’m not around, and sometimes when I am, he’s your go-to guy. He can repair every piece of equipment in …

In July, after I was convinced the airlines were not going to put their nut mixes back in First Class, I issued a news release saying that our website, Great Nuts.com, and our store, GreatNuts.com, would be selling bags of the nuts mixes at near cost. It started with a front page article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram by Bud Kennedy, and from there spread like wildfire.I was interviewed by the Dallas Morning News, Channel 11, Channel 5, Telemundo, a radio station, and I can’t even recall …