20 Spinach Recipes & Spinach History For National Spinach Day

These 20+ spinach recipes give you more than enough ideas for celebrating the year’s 7 spinach holidays: January 17: Popeye The Sailor Man Day March 26: National Spinach Day June 17: National Eat Your Vegetables Day July 16th: National Fresh Spinach Day September, 2nd Full Week: National Folic Acid Awareness Week October: Spinach Lovers Month…
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RECIPE: Colorful Spinach & Grapefruit Salad

A terrific combination of flavors. Photocourtesy Melissas.com.   Before citrus gives way to summer fruits, here’s a quick, colorful spring salad from Andrew Faulkner for Melissas.com, purveyor of exotic and hard-to-find fruits and vegetables. Sweet-tart grapefruit, tasty fennel, and tangy olive flavors come together with super healthy spinach leaves and grapefruit segments.   RECIPE: SPINACH…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Spinach Salad With Apples & Figs

Popeye ate spinach because it made him strong: It’s a very good source of dietary fiber and protein, lots of vitamins (A, B6, C, E [alpha tocopherol], K, folate, riboflavin, thiamin), calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and potassium…and a good source of niacin and zinc. On top of the nutrition, spinach makes a wonderful…
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