Everyone is going green these days, from Chevron to Johnson & Johnson. After a talk with my nutritionist, I decided to bring a little more green into life in the form of Greens. Now don’t get me wrong, I like some greens like broccoli and cauliflower which isn’t technically green but you can get it in cool colors like orange and purple as well as green. You can even make the Irish flag on your plate with cauliflower (green, white & gold). Sometimes I even enjoy the leafy variety, as in my husbands delicious warm spinach & bacon salad, a dish he gets many pot-luck requests. But Marianne thought I could benefit from regular leafy’s and I couldn’t fault her logic. Energetically they grow up and out so they give you light airy energy. Research shows they can combat depression and lung cancer. From a Chinese medicine point of view, they nourish blood which every woman needs.
Yes, I couldn’t find any reason not to eat them except for one.
I don’t like them.
They tend to taste “earthy” as in, like dirt, to me. Smidgen of an obstacle there, but that didn’t deter Marianne. She gave me a couple of oh so simple recipes and suggested I give them a try. If I still didn’t like then I could write off greens forever. No she didn’t say that, but that’s how I was thinking. To my surprise, I liked them, and after a couple of days I actually craved them. How’s that for giving your body what it wants. And she was right, such a simple recipe….steam kale for a few minutes then sautee garlic (and rasins if you want some sweet) throw in the kale and try not to burn the garlic. Top with toasted pine nuts if you have some, but salt and pepper are delicious too. Yummy. I’ve even branched out to mustard greens, chard and turnip greens. Things we’d normally feed the pigs. Hmmm….let me review that statement, it could still be true.
If you know you want to make changes in your eating habits but haven’t got the willpower to do it on your own then I suggest you give Marianne Bridgeman of Healthy Inner Beauty a call. She can guide you through the process of finding the exact right non-diet food plan that fits your life as well as your goals. She can even get you to want to eat greens.
