how is the spinach recall affecting anyone's diet ?

[flordehinojos]

Spinach good for iron.

[Broken_Hero]

1. not at all...

I can't eat greens, so spinach is out of the question...I do take daily multi-vitamins, so that usually takes care of my daily requirements...

[flordehinojos]

3. spinach had become part of my diet since i started my diet program in jan.

now i guess i'll have to add some liver to my diet just to keep up with the iron level in me.

[flordehinojos]

8. I JUST PICKED UP some iron pills at my doctor's today ...

i had tried FEOSOL (or is it FEOSTAT?) IRON pills but i broke out in a rash and had to discontinue them. They say that these i got today may not cause me to break out. i'll try and see.

[auntAgonist]

2. I enjoy spinach

and all other greens. I used to love having a salad before my main entree but now I have to eat the protein first so I often don't have room for a salad. I'm not really missing the spinach. Watercress is a good green for nutrition :)

aA

[flordehinojos]

4. hi auntAgonist.

for me spinach had become a vital part of my diet (i had gotten a little low in iro--i've been on this diet since january and have already lost 50 lbs!--will need to lose more..so to keep up with my iron level, my primary care doctor suggested adding liver to my diet. good thing i like liver).

[auntAgonist]

5. here's a couple of links for you

I too need to make sure I get all the iron I can. I take a prescription Iron supplement and I love liver!

One of my favourite ways to prepare it is to cut it into bite size pieces, dredge in flour and pepper, saute (in a little oil) till browned on all sides. Add equal parts water and soy sauce, I use low sodium soy sauce and simmer till all liquid is absorbed. 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup soy should do the trick. I don't measure stuff anymore, I've made it for years. Play with the combination and see what you come up with.
Serve it over rice :)

My son would request this as a child UNTIL he found out it was liver! ! ! then he decided he hated liver. (thanks to his dad for saying, "oh we're having that liver dish again, yay!!!"



Anyway, here's some info on watercress. sheesh I'm all over the place in this post :rofl:

http://www.watercress.co.uk/health/chart.shtml

http://www.watercress.com/pages/healthy/recipe_page.htm

this recipe is wonderful!

1 B&W bag or eurowrap sleeve of watercress
3 oz.. Sour cream
6 oz.. Chopped walnuts
8 oz.. Soft cream cheese
Good seasons italian dressing
12 6” Soft tortilla shells


Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix cream cheese & sour cream, leave out to soften. Meanwhile coarsely chop watercress leaves and stems; set aside. Place walnuts on baking sheet and toast in the oven for 8-10 minutes or until lightly toasted. Combine cream cheese mixture, watercress, walnuts and italian dressing in a large bowl and mix well. Spread mixture generously on tortilla and roll up. Can be eaten whole or cut into 2” sections and served as an appetizer.

Per serving (excluding unknown items):
303.0 Calories; 20.9 G. Fat (60.5% Calories from fat); 8.2 G protein; 22.5 G carbohydrates; 24 mg cholesterol; 262 mg sodium:1 1/2 grain (starch); 1/2 lean meat; 4 fat.

[flordehinojos]

9. thanks for the recipes ...

because i did not have the surgery, but just losing all this weight by cutting lots of food, i can't do the rice (i haven't had rice since January ... and i don't think i can do the flour, but i will try doing the soy and some water on the liver--sort of like a marinade--and see how that comes out, and it eat maybe with some lettuce or okra or something like that. i too have always loved liver but i had not had any in a long time ... (do you remember when KFC used to prepare FRIED CHICKEN LIVERS? I USED TO LOVE THEM... that and some cole slaw and french friend Yum Yum. but, that was such a long time ago!) ... maybe your kid will rediscover his taste for liver one day.
my husband did something similar to my kid when he was about 12 or 13 (though i can't exactly remember what it was ... but following in his father footsteps was at the time more important to him than enjoying his own preference for whatever it was his father said uuugggh to). I also did pick up a bottle of 15% iron pills from the weight management people when i went there today.

They are going to discontinue the Medical Weight Loss Program and continue only with the Bariatric surgery program ... a loss for me, but when I am done with this program (in the next three or four weeks) hopefull i will have learned enough to continue the died and the weight loss--and i will have myself monitored for low iron through my PC physician.

[AlCzervik]

6. i have about 6 bags of frozen in my freezer, i eat it spinach at least

4 times a week. The main impact on my household is actually for my daughter's guinea pig Bob, we always buy him the giant tub of Earthbound farms spring mix, needless to say it's not available right now so Bob is a bit sad. He goes over to his fresh food bowl and looks at what i put in there and then he just kind of looks of me like "Whaaaaaaa?" so in the mean time the produce guy recommended some other kind of dark green curly lettuce, it's not quite the same but it seemed to cheer Bob up a little.

[flordehinojos]

10. glad that Bob is happy with his dark green curly lettuce ...

(my yorkie has decided that he will not eat whatever of his dog food that we have given him before and how he might eat something one day but not the next day... i've bought about six or seven different bags of dog food in the last month alone trying to find what he might eat ... it can get very expensive ... and i am not sure that we are finding anything that hits the spot with him again any time soon. in the last two days we have given in and boiled him some chicken0!!!

(but back to the spinach thing ... hope those 4 bags of spinach in your freezer will last you through the spinach scare...just make sure they are really, really sure that it is safe to eat spinach again before you get some new spinach)...

[Systematic Chaos]

7. It hasn't yet and hopefully it won't....

I have plenty of frozen veggies, including spinach, in the freezer. I'm hoping that the supply will rebound before I end up missing it badly enough. :)

[flordehinojos]

11. a toast to your frozen spinach ... though make sure it is really, really

safe to get a new batch before you do.