Here's to your Health

[Berzerker]

http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2014/13_0390.htm#table2_down

Watercress?

Okay, any chefs out there?

If I'm making dinner I just throw stuff together in a big pot of tomato sauce and we use it for a few days as a kind of topping for fish, chicken, or sweet potatoes, etc.

So does anyone have experience cooking watercress?

and Chinese cabbage, whats that?

I like cabbage, sauerkraut is supposed to be nutritious...

[The Mad Monk]

Watercress is something I put in my "greens" mix for my gumbo, but that's because it's in the recipe I use. I know it's supposed to be good in salads, but I really can't tell you what it tastes like. I think its pretty pricey, but you can find a little of it in prepackaged "spring" mixes.

If chinese cabbage is bok choy, its damn tasty, and used in stir frys all the time. It is the cabbage used in the dishes at chinese restaurants. Pretty cheap, IIRC. Easy to grow, too.

[Berzerker]

so you eat watercress raw in salads etc?

I'm gonna give it a try, I was surprised how low on the list blueberries, broccoli and cauliflower rank

[The Mad Monk]

Calculated as the mean of percent daily values (DVs) (based on a 2,000 kcal/d diet) for 17 nutrients (potassium, fiber, protein, calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate, zinc, and vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, E, and K) as provided by 100 g of food, expressed per 100 kcal of food. Scores above 100 were capped at 100 (indicating that the food provides, on average, 100% DV of the qualifying nutrients per 100 kcal).

It concentrates on the tried-and-true, and doesn't consider the assortment of chemicals that have come up more recently. Keep the blueberries, broccoli and cauliflower on your plate.

[Dinner]

Now, that is actually a cool list. I've been juicing lately after watching "Sick, Fat, and almost Dead" (which was really just an infomercial disguised as a "documentary"), replacing breakfast and lunch with vegetable juice, and I'm going to make sure I include stuff on that list. BTW the Omega brand juicer I bought for ~$200 at Bed, Bath, & Beyond works pretty well.

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/omega-reg-j8004-nutrition-center-juicer-in-white/1017740806?Keyword=juicer

Just wait for a sale and make sure to use the 20% off coupon they have on their website.

[Ben Kenobi]

Time to sell Omega brand juicer stock...