healthy eating – Go Retire Psychiatrist

Sena just told me today is National Spinach Day. Naturally this means she is going to prepare a big whopping mess of spinach for us to eat. She also recently ordered a 100-gallon keg of Super Beets supplement capsules as part of her health food project. She drank the Super Beet Kool-Aid, if you know what I mean.

I guess Popeye the sailor man is still one of the best spokespersons for spinach, which I actually sort of like when it’s soaked in vinegar for about a year or so. When I was a kid, I used to watch Popeye cartoons. The basic storyline is Bluto uses Popeye for punching bag until a can of spinach weighing a metric ton drops out of the sky on Bluto. This never taught Bluto a lesson.

In honor of National Spinach Day, we’ll probably have a platter of Florentine chicken fricassee with a pound of spinach simmered with extraterrestrial brain lobes paired with Bigfoot armpit glands and a glass of chilled free range beagle pee layered with beet juice. Yum.

Maybe just a salad. Happy National Spinach Day!

spinach, beets and leeks and fig vinaigrette

Picture credit: Pixydotorg. I’m not sure about exactly when Popeye goes into the public domain. There are different dates on the web. But the picture is free on Pixydotorg.

National Spinach Day!

The other day, Sena suggested we have a soup and sandwich dinner. We both had a Braunschweiger sandwich on toasted bread, with onions—and Miracle Whip! Sena suggested the adding the onions and toasting the bread. She also decided to try the Miracle Whip spread. I chose the soup, which was so spicy we needed a drink of lemonade with every bite.

Usually, she prefers mayonnaise to Miracle Whip, so I was floored. In fact, adding onions on toasted bread with the sandwich was delicious! We both liked it.

Braunschweiger is also very nutritious. According to one web article, a single serving has 14 grams of protein, important for muscle growth, repair, and health overall. It also has heart healthy monosaturated fats (good for you), it’s high in Vitamin A which is great for eye health, and has many essential vitamins and minerals.

And is Miracle Whip good or bad for you? It turns out it has half the calories and fat of mayo, so it’s a healthy choice.

Sena actually liked the Braunschweiger with Miracle Whip sandwich. She made sure I put onions on the sandwiches and she liked the way I diced them. In fact, onions are also good for you. They’re low in calories and nutrient rich.

Try to pair it with a soup that it isn’t nuclear grade spicy and doesn’t require a gallon of lemonade to put out the fire.

Older adults can learn more about healthy eating and exercise at the Move Your Way link. Try it. You might like it.