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    edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    What are your favorite 'greens' and how do you prepare them. I'm from the midwest and we typically prefer corn and potatoes. I have a garden and can plant anything.

    Healthy stuff please. Thank you!

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    • Posts: 182 Member
      From a garden some of my favorites are Green Beans, Peas and Tomatoes.

      Tomatoes and Strawberrys grown in the dirt from a real garden taste so different from the greenhouse ones you normally buy in the grocery store.
    • Posts: 1,343 Member
      Swiss chard or dandelion greens. Fresh in a salad. Kale is decent too ...steamed or sauteed
    • Posts: 327 Member
      baby spinach and kale. i put them in my smoothies...yummers.
    • Posts: 365 Member
      I like growing peas, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries.
    • Posts: 3
      rhubarb is great for growing in the garden ! and so so healthy!
    • Posts: 56 Member
      My favourite side side is steamed spinach with olive oil and lemon juice. So delicious.
    • Posts: 267 Member
      Spinach, Kale, Swiss Chard, Mustard Greens, and Collards (I'm from the South).

      I eat spinach and kale the most. Spinach I throw into smoothies raw, or make a salad with it. It is also good sauteed in a little olive oil with garlic. Kale can be steamed or sauteed, or made into kale chips. Almost any greens can be steamed or sauteed. Just don't cook them too much. You want them to be bright green for the most nutrition.
    • Posts: 685 Member
      mustard greens steamed with garlic and onion...so way yummy!
    • Posts: 2,505 Member
      I already grow tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, apples, red onions, sweet potatoes, spinach, mesclun, green beans and various peppers. I know that dark, leafy greens are full of nutrients and I need to know what to grow and how to prepare it.

      Thanks!
    • Posts: 44 Member
      I grew in the Southwest, so I totally understand the corn and potatoes thing. LOL... But since I moved to the Pacific NW, I have learned to eat greens with impunity.

      Here are some of my favorites:

      1) Any green (kale, turnip greens, or collards) steamed then served with pinto beans.
      2) Chard, cut into ribbons (as if making cole slaw), then add garbanzo beans, chopped dried apricots, chopped roasted red peppers, and a balsamic vinegarette dressing. A great salad.
      3) Collard greens, cut into ribbons (as if making a cole slaw), add a little green or purple cabbage, some shredded carrot, and raisins, then a cole slaw (light mayo & apple cidar vinegar) dressing. Another great salad.
      4) Lightly steamed Kale, cut into ribbons, and sauteed with brown mushrooms and onions. Serve with a poached egg on top if you like. It makes a great breakfast.

      I have dozens of ways to eat greens. Here are just a few of them. If you want actual recipes, send me a friend request.
    • Posts: 242
      Here in the south everyone likes collard, mustard, and turnip greens. My mother-in-law cooks them on the stove stop with apple cider vinegar.
    • Posts: 645 Member
      I <3 greens. Kale is great as chips (oven baked). I also like it cooked in a skillet, by itself or mixed with collards or spinach. Sometimes I throw some mushrooms in there. Mustard greens are great too. I am pretty simple so I usually just add some garlic/onion powder (real garlic/onion if I have it), salt, nutritional yeast. I like raw greens a lot too, so I eat all kinds of lettuces and spinach that way. I haven't tried kale raw yet, though you can do it. I'd like to do beet greens and carrot greens, but haven't yet.
    • Posts: 23
      My small city raised garden beds here in Canada are mostly spinach, lettuce and carrots. Home grown carrots do not compare in taste to the "woody" store things. My family won't eat those anymore, but I buy them for soups and such. There are also 12 peas, 12 corn, 4 zucchini, and 3 cucumber, rhubarb, radishes and beets etc. Anything fresh from the garden gets gobbled up and I figure I save about $350/yr in veggies. I'll be away later in the summer so I didn't plant finicky tomatoes this year.

      Spinach and lettuces (romaine and buttercrunch) are my main crops and save me from $6-$10 per week, plush I know what is put on them (just compost mixed in, no chemicals).

      I fall plant spinach, carrots and onions. The first crop of spinach is fully mature and we've been eating fresh for 2 weeks already!

      Basically plant what you'd like to eat!
    • Posts: 645 Member
      Oh, and I forgot the turnip greens. I almost never see those or mustard greens since I left the South.
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