Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I know I need my greens but I don't like either celery or lettuce. The fact that they spoil so quickly in the frig for one things. I know they can be preserved but I don't like the hassle of all that. What about spinach?
The easiest way to add vegetables to your diet is to look for the frozen bags of vegetables that cook in the microwave. Many are already seasoned and they cook right in the bag. You can find flavors to go with almost any meal.
Spinach is good for you but fresh spinach can be kind of a chore to clean. Usually you have to fill a bowl of water, dunk the spinach several times, dump out the water and refill the bowl, repeat a few times until you quit seeing dirt in the water. If you eat a lot of raw spinach, it can cause kidney stones. Bags of prewashed baby spinach are easier than having to wash it.
Some lettuce keeps longer than others. Romaine seems to keep about a week. I buy tubs of baby spring mix to use in salad and those last about a week. Red leaf lettuce spoils faster than other lettuce.
Peas? Green beans? Carrots are orange and beets are red. Just eat some raw produce once in a while, and whatever cooked you can fit into your diet. You don't like any kind of salad?
I don't understand your question. Are you really asking if there are any green foods besides celery and lettuce? Greens are... green. Green foods are green, and therefore greens.
If you are asking what I think you're asking, start by going to a supermarket. In the fruit and veg section will be a wide variety of foods, of all sorts of different colours. Many of them are green. In the frozen section are bags of frozen fruits and vegetables, many if these are also green. write down the names of the green things you see, go home and google how to cook them. Cook them. Eat them. When in doubt, saute in a pan with butter, salt and garlic.
In general, the darker the colour of the food, the higher the concentration of the colour, and the better it is for you. So red beetroot is better for you than golden beetroot, parsley is better for you than celery, etc. I try to have something green and something red/orange in every meal.
Baby spinach has a much milder flavour than frozen spinach (which is from older plants). I sub baby spinach for any recipe calling for frozen spinach, and I freeze leftover baby spinch so it doesn't go bad.
Some awesome lists of recipes with green veg (srsly, I googled 'recipes with green vegetables', I'm going to bookmark a few of them)
Do you like cabbage, broccoli, peas, green onions, spinach, kale, frozen veggies, peppers; there are so many kinds of peppers and how about adding cilantro to cooked dishes? I can think of many ways to get your greens without eating lettuce and celery. give some other veggies a try; you might be surprised as how good they can be, cooked or raw? We usually have cold slaw once a week and we grill various veggies a couple times a week.
Arugula
Boston
Belgium endive
Curly Endive aka frisee
Napa (Chinese)
Radicchio (very good on the bbq)
Red cabbage
Watercress
Use lettuce for wraps around meat/vegetables. I use lettuce all the time instead of bread for sandwiches, fashioned just like two pieces of bread. Escarole is excellent in soups. Make cole slaw. Make chinese cole slaw. Kimchee.
I find the OP's question to be...mind-boggling...in almost every respect.
Does he REALLY not know of the existence of "greens" other than celery and lettuce?
Also, I don't know where he buys his celery and his lettuce, but neither of these vegetable items "spoil quickly" in my refrigerator. The lettuce is used up within a few days, and never has a chance to "spoil".
The celery might sit in my vegetable drawer for a couple of weeks--in ever-diminishing quantity--before it is used-up, but the celery also never "spoils" within that 2 week period.
I have the following suggestions for the OP:
Start shopping for your "greens" at a market where the vegetables are not on the verge of rotting when you buy them.
Make a concerted effort to use them at a faster rate than you are currently doing.
Familiarize yourself with all of the vegetables--both fresh and frozen--that are available.
I know I need my greens but I don't like either celery or lettuce. The fact that they spoil so quickly in the frig for one things. I know they can be preserved but I don't like the hassle of all that. What about spinach?
The cooked spinach don't last to your next meal. They lose their flavours as an apple. And the canned spinach don't taste good to me.
Just buy bags of spinach. They last a while. Cook one bag at a time.
Or grow it. Spinach is VERY easy to grow...
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
