Anyone have any good recipes that have lots of iron? I need to introduce more into my diet pronto!
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Steak, marinate with sea salt and pepper.
Make a HUGE spinach salad with eggs! (yolk is high in iron and so is spinach!)
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I heard liver but I won't touch it!
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My dad used to make "Poke Salat" when I was growing up. It's a version of a southern salad. All you do is add spinach (canned, frozen, whatever) to eggs as you are scrambling them. It turns the eggs a really funky shade of green, but is so full of iron and doesn't taste bad. I've made it one or twice for Hubs and he enjoys it.
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I like to saute my beet greens and add them to beet salad.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/fresh-beet-salad/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=beet%20salad&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Home%20PageAlso, consider eating citrus with your spinach and greens; vitamin c helps you absorb the iron found naturally in foods.
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@autumnlove: Yikes no liver for me either....
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@chopsuey119: this will be my Friday night meal!
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it's summer, so it's the perfect time to introduce more meat. grill some steaks or burgers!
as far as snacks go, i know that hummus and eggs are both high in iron.
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Yup I agree- lots of steak and spinach salads
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ps: if you have vitamin c with your iron, the iron will be absorbed better and faster! my hubs has an iron deficiency, so i've googled and googled. steak with broccoli or kale is a good combo!
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You could check out nutrition data.com?
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@808love: thanks I'll give it a look!
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@jessiejo17: even if u did like liver, it has so much of the bad kind of vitamin A (i.e. not beta carotene but retinol) that it is not recommended for pregnant women.
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