Eat spinach today, get strong, beat up bullies

by Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts)
Posted Mar 26th 2008 8:03AM
Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Holidays

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can of spinach I was one of those kids that actually loved spinach. Mom always served the canned stuff when I was a kid and I couldn't get enough of it. I never understood the cliche that kids hate to eat spinach. Is that really true? And while I'm asking questions, why do green veggies (spinach, green beans, etc) get cold really quickly?

Today is Spinach Day. About.com has a ton of great recipes, including Amaretto Spinach Salad, Beef and Spinach Deep Dish Pizza, Lemony Chicken Soup with Spinach, Creamed Spinach, and Spinach Pie.

Oh, and here's the history of Popeye.

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3-26-2008 @ 11:21AM

caitlin said...

I never liked spinach as a kid for two reasons. The first was the smell. It is one of several foods that smelled too noxious for me to even consider eating. The second is that when it was served to me at school, it had always congealed into a pile of green slime.

I didn't start eating it until I was introduced to spinach cheese dip and have gradually tried other spinach dishes at the local Greek diner. My 3 year old has not been exposed to overcooked veggie slime yet, and happily eats asparagus, spinach, broccoli, and okra. I think a lot of it is presentation - we've never had a problem with veggies "hiding in plain sight" when we introduced my son to new ones. I usually find recipes that pair a veggie with something my son likes, because he's more willing to try it if he knows he likes part of it already. And once he decides he likes that, he's usually willing to try the veggie solo.

3-26-2008 @ 2:38PM

Stef said...

Spinach was one of my favorite veggies as a kid as well. We used the frozen brick of spinach, with some butter, and I would eat the whole thing myself. My dad always thought I was weird, "Kids aren't supposed to like vegetables!" I still love it although I don't eat it as much as I used to (I've been very enamored of green beans lately).

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