How often do you eat green veggies>?

[samy23]

Like the super healthy ones such as cabbage, sprouts, spinach, broccolli ...and probably others I have forgotton. Im concerned we dont eat enough of those. Our regular ones are peas, carrots and sweetcorn.

[deditus]

Originally Posted by samy23

Like the super healthy ones such as cabbage, sprouts, spinach, broccolli ...and probably others I have forgotton. Im concerned we dont eat enough of those. Our regular ones are peas, carrots and sweetcorn.

2-3 times a day. I try to have (at least) one with each meal, doesn't always happen though.

[samy23]

Originally Posted by deditus

2-3 times a day. I try to have (at least) one with each meal, doesn't always happen though.

Wow that often? That's so good! Can I ask what you usually have? and you wouldnt include one for breakfast right?

[Martha27]

I always have a bag of spinach in the fridge and (especially during cold/flu season) try to use it in lunch and dinner somehow. I put spinach in soups, sauces, on homemade pizza, pretty much anything can have spinach added to it! Also we have been drinking a lot of green smoothies and my toddlers love it! We also eat a lot of broc. and brussel sprouts. mostly dinner time for those two except if we have leftovers for lunch. Also my kids and I like raw broc. as a snack. Also raw cabbage with peanut butter on it is a pretty tasty snack!

[kittyhead]

every day with dinner, and sometimes in a salad for lunch.

[Snowflower]

At least once a day, but usually 2-3 x/day. We love Asparagus, green beans, avocados, spinach, broccoli, peas, zucchini, salads... green smoothies w spinach or kale also w spirulina and wheat grass. All yummy stuff!

[nicolelynn]

I usually have a green drink (Vitamineralgreen or Perfect Food) with breakfast, a salad with lunch and a green veggie like broccoli, kale, etc with dinner.

[Ellp]

I try to have some greens with every dinner but sometimes that just doesn't happen. We will have some type of veggie though, whether thats romaine lettace, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, peas, green beans, or spinach. Oh, and I love having a baby mixed lettace salad. We have that roughly once a week.

Dd#1 is much more the veggie eater than any of us and will willingly snack on cucumbers and green beans all day if I let her.

[ursusarctos]

Several times a week, though I include some kind of veggie in or with every meal I cook (excluding breakfast). We don't really do salads so our green veggies come from cooked spinach, brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, and cabbage in the form of sauerkraut for me (DP won't touch it ). We like brussels sprouts and broccoli roasted with olive oil and sea salt, and spinach and kale in soups.

[LeighB]

4-5 times a day. I drink green smoothies every day and those have two servings each (usually spinach). Then I eat sprouts at lunch somedays. Dinner always has at least one serving. Either steamed broccoli or spinach salad, sometimes both if the main meal isn't very healthy.

[deditus]

Originally Posted by samy23

Wow that often? That's so good! Can I ask what you usually have? and you wouldnt include one for breakfast right?

Oh yeah, definitely breakfast. Our meals are usually meat, above ground veggie, and below ground veggie, often a green salad w/lunch or dinner, too. We are gluten, soy, dairy, processed corn, and egg free, and grain light, so I needed to shift my thinking about meals. Snacks are fruit, nuts, coconut milk yogurt, smoothies.

[Holiztic]

2-3 a day.

Our big European-style lunches include some form of 'salad' that has either asparagus or artichoke or similar, then the entree has broccoli or spinach or green beans or similar.

Then supper is soup that often has a green veg in it, if not we have another salady type thing (meaning not necessarily, or even often, raw leafy greens with dressing type salad).

And I consider our grass-fed beef to count too!

2.5 year old DS eats most of this, too!

[sunnysandiegan]

Every day at least once, but usually several times. We tend to get most of our veggies (healthy greens or otherwise) at dinner, though.

[Drummer's Wife]

At least once a day but usually more like 2-3 times. We LOVE fresh spinach and I buy the big tub of it once or twice a week. It's what we use instead of lettuce for salad, and we have salad pretty much every night for dinner. Then, I also add it to lots of other dishes - like eggs, pizza, pasta, etc. We eat a lot of fresh green beans, and asparagus (it's on sale right now for $1 a lb, so we have been eating it pretty much every day). Another green veggies we eat on a weekly basis is broccoli. My kids eat it raw, cooked, in foods, however. They love it. We also eat plenty of non-green vegetables - and I really aim to get more than the RDA, especially with the flu and other illnesses going around.

[425lisamarie]

I seriuosly eat a couple pounds of greens a day. I LOVE vegetables. My kids eat veggies 2 times a day, and fruit/starchy ones too but for green it's probably 2 for them. I pretty much puree a veggie in anything I make though, so hard to say

[Llyra]

I don't really buy veggies at supermarkets; we rely on what we grow, or what we can obtain locally. When they're in season locally, we eat them at lunch and dinner nearly every day in large amounts. In the winter, I do have a small crop of spinach under a cold frame in my kitchen garden, plus some broccoli, kale, and spinach, and a few other things, in the freezer. We probably eat greens every second day in the winter and early spring. We tend to rely more on root veggies and summer veggies from the freezer, in the cold months. We're not salad people-- we mostly eat our veggies cooked.

We also eat pickled cabbage, homemade. Just had some, in fact.

[mamatoablessing]

I try to include a veggie of some sort at every lunch and dinner. Lunches tend to be easy veggies like peas, carrots, cucumbers, celery, etc. Dinners include asparagus, broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, peas, brussels sprouts, green beans, cabbage, etc. I'd say 5 out of 7 lunches and dinners a veggie with them.

[kalisis]

There is a veggie offered at every meal and that doesn't mean corn or potatoes (which we rarely eat). And usually, there are veggies IN whatever the main course is, so they get doubled up.

It's harder in winter b/c we don't do as many smoothies, but a smoothie in this house isn't considered a smoothie unless it's green (kale or spinach, usually).

We eat at least one meal/day that has spinach in it. It's a running joke in my family about how much I love spinach, but it's true and it's SOOOOOO good for you (and your digestive tract too!).

[lil_earthmomma]

Originally Posted by samy23

Like the super healthy ones such as cabbage, sprouts, spinach, broccolli ...and probably others I have forgotton. Im concerned we dont eat enough of those. Our regular ones are peas, carrots and sweetcorn.

2 times a day at least, sometimes 3.

Breakfast, eggs florentine or any baked egg dish I do gets spinach.

Lunch is a salad with baby spinach or soup with veg.

Dinner always has a (mixed green baby spinach) salad and sometimes a side of cabbage or broccoli.

We also drink green smoothies!!!

[Holiztic]

I am curious about all the people saying that they eat raw spinach daily (or twice daily!) Are you aware of or simply not concerned about oxalic acid? My understanding is that the oxalic acid in raw spinach leaches iron and calcium from the body. Eaten daily I would think this could be a big issue.