SPINACH?!?

I use baby spinach a lot. Many times for salads, but it can also be wilted down or frozen spinach used in recipes. I've used it for Chicken Florentine Crepes. It's great in Vegetarian Lasagna and other pastase. You can also add it to eggs for omelets or scrambles. Good luck!!

Hot Chickpeas With Spinach & Bacon

1 Rasher Lean Back Bacon
1 Thinly Sliced Garlic Clove
1 Tbsp Wine Vinegar
2-3 Tbsp Canned Chickpeas, drained and washed
½ Bag Baby Leaf Spinach

Directions:
1.Cut the bacon rasher into shreds and cook in a hot non-stick pan with the garlic clove. Stir in the wine vinegar and chickpeas. Toss in the baby leaf spinach, stirring until wilted. Season if you want to, then serve hot.


Notes: 97 kcalories, protein 9g, carbohydrate 9g, fat 3 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 2g, salt 1.54 g

I put it on/in everything.
I put it in my chilli, fried rice, pasta sauces. You name it it'll be in there.

I like to sautee it in a little olive oil (because there is that Popeye connection, naturally) and add it to my breakfast sandwich (egg, morningstar farms sausage patty or ham slice, and Thomas lite english muffin)

I also stir it into stir frys, soup, pasta, etc. If you take frozen meal for lunch you can up the nutrition by bringing a baggie of raw baby spinach and then stirring it in to your heated meal - it wilts and tastes yummy.

Also, try sauteeing some chopped leek or garlic in olive oil and then add the spinach for a yummy side dish. I go for just wilted, not mushy.

I have a Green Monster everyday for breakfast!!! 1 c almond milk (or milk of your choice), 2 big handfuls of spinach, 1 banana, 1 scoop of protein powder (I use vegan RAW powder) and 1-2 tbsp of chia seeds (optional). Blend, blend, blend!! I also add PB2 (powdered peanut butter with most of the fat removed_delish ) once and a while or mint extract. To increase the volume and to make it colder I add about 5 ice cubes.

I also sautee spinach with a little coconut oil, garlic, salt and pepper. Or stir it in with pasta. It really can go in almost everything!!!

Spinach is one of my favourite foods. I'll put it in anything

1-steam it then drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice
2-add it to scrambled eggs or an omlette
3-mix it into hot tomato sauce with a bit of ricotta to eat with past
4-cook it up (steamed or sauteed) then put it in a crepe with cheese and heat it up

^^^ THIS ^^^
I do #1-3 on this list all the time. I'll have to try #4 now, lol.
I also use it in place of lettuce on sandwiches. Another favorite.. saute it up with a bit of choped onion, garlic, mushrooms and then use that mixture, along with a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese and stuff it in chicken breasts, pork chops, or tilapia/flounder fillets.

When I think of spinach I think of all the trouble I had getting my son to eat it. I found that if you add it to a tomato-based product, like speghetti (sp?) sauce, you can't even taste it! Seriously!! I put it in my sauce and told my 5 year old that it was just a new spice and that it wasn't any "green" stuff. He ate it all up. Try it.

I haven't tried this, but plan to since it sounds so good - drizzle with olive oil and add herbs you like - bake till crisp - taking the place of potato chips.

I don't know if you like guacamole (not everyone's thing, that's for sure!) but if you do, there's a ton of good recipes out there for spinach-guacamole dip; with/without onions, etc. It's good for flavoring up a lot of foods.

There is a great Spinach Burger recipe on here!