Day #3 of the 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

[shadowkat]

The prompt is Name a food that you are grateful for.

Power Salad greens specifically uncooked spinach, rainbow chard, and argula, also mustard greens.

Why? They are good source of fiber, protein, and vitamin A - also easy to put together in a quick salad. So a salad of spinach greens, green onion or red onion, white or red raddish, cucumber, and another protein of my choice.
Dressing? lemon juice, and maybe some olive oil. Trick to making it flavorful is putting in just the right mixture of salad greens, and toppings.

Rest of the days are HERE.

I'm doing this meme to help keep my head above water and stave off depression. I don't really care if anyone else does it. ;-)

Comments

[atpo_onm]

Bananas, because I'm very fond of them, and I couldn't eat them when I was a child, because of allergies. Oddly, once I got well into adolescence, I could eat them. Something in the body changes must have altered my digestive system, and in addition, the severe asthma attacks went away also, although I've still been plagued with hair-trigger particulate allergies my entire life.

Meat loaf, if it's made really well, is my go-to comfort food. There's a local diner who makes a superb one, nearly as good as my mom's was.

[shadowkat]

Bananas...I rarely eat them, because my system doesn't tend to like them. Although they make a great natural sweetener for pancakes and muffins, plus fiber source. I can eat them better if they are part of pancake or muffin batter.

My mother loves them.

Way back in 2003 - I briefly interned for a crazy marketing/promotional guy who was the marketing manager for the WHO and the Beatles. I remember the other intern took out a banana to eat at lunch, and got reamed by this guy - who went on a 30 minuted rant about the horrors of bananas and how much he despised them, and we should eat kiwi instead. The other intern and I just looked each other, and rolled our eyes. Bananas appear to be one of those fruits that most people either love or really hate. Had a massage therapist who preached against bananas, she also wasn't crazy about apples - claiming pears were better and less sweet.

Re Meat Loaf - there are just some foods that are comfort foods because they remind us of home. (My mother used to make a meatloaf that was different from any I've seen - it had macroni along the side, tomato sauce, and with bread crumbs, etc. So of course I haven't been able to eat it since 2005. But I have fond memories of it.)

[jesuswasbatman]

I despise bananas, but the day after the lockdown announcement this week I went to the local supermarket and the banana shelves had been stripped bare (no other fruit or veg as bad) so someone in the neighbourhood must like them.

[shadowkat]

Not really a fan of bananas myself. But a lot of people I know love them. It really is a fruit that people either love or despise.

Although - while we've had shortages in apples (in may during the lockdown, everyone was buying them - no that's its apple season - everyone is sick of them and they are in abundant supply), no shortage to date on bananas.