Spinach is one of the best vegetables you can include in your diet. It has all the health benefits common to leafy green vegetables, including a bunch of vitamins and minerals, like Zinc, dietary fiber, protein, vitamin k, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, folate, calcium, iron, magnesium, etc. But to get the health benefits, you have to eat the spinach, hence this list of 8 ways to include spinach in your diet.
Lunch meat sandwiches/Hamburgers
No sandwich or hamburger is complete without some greenery. Most often that greenery is lettuce, specifically, iceberg lettuce. Spinach is a great substitute for lettuce. It’s green like lettuce and has a similar texture, but all the nutrients of spinach.
Spaghetti Sauce
No spaghetti sauce is complete without a serious portion of veggies. It doesn’t matter if it’s homemade or store bought, it needs some greenery in it. Next time you make some spaghetti sauce, add a generous portion of baby spinach. It doesn’t affect the flavor much, but it makes the sauce pop.
Smoothies/Homemade Popsicle’s
Smoothies are one of the best ways to get a low calorie but nutrient dense meal. You can pile in all the fruits and veggies that you like into a blender, and you will have an entire meal in a cup in no time. Spinach is a great smoothie ingredient. It is easy to process and doesn’t negatively affect the overall flavor of the smoothie.
Mixed Vegetables
Spinach is just one of those vegetables that goes with everything. It is especially great in a mixed bag of vegetables, or as the basis of a salad.
Breakfast Wrap
In the morning, nothing beats the ultimate breakfast wrap: sausage, eggs, bacon, cheese, peppers, and spinach! You need some veggies in your wrap, and spinach is just the best for it.
Soup
Spinach is the perfect ingredient to fill out your soup and enhance its broth. Just make sure to add it after the soup stops cooking.
