Not sure about the rest of the world but we are not big vegetable eaters, but recently a friend of my daughter lost weight just by eating healthy and using the food pyramid. Which basically means eating vegetables and fruits on a daily basis as opposed to a two or three time a week occurence. The main vegetables we eat are carrots raw and cooked, corn, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, and other beans. As you can see the vegetables are some what limited and pretty standard.
Last week my daughter thought she would try a new recipe and new vegetalbe "Kale". She tried the Kale Chip which is where you chop the kale into 1 1/2 inch pieces and then bake in the oven till dried out. She burned the first batch. If you did not know new recipes are trail and error in this household. The second batch came out better. I don't think it will replace the potato chip but it was okay. I like the pieces with the stem parts in, it gave it a chewy nutty flavor. We put the leftovers in a baggie for lunches, but that didn't work to well I tried one and I just kept chewing forever. So I did not think this was a good second day recipes. I am one of those people who loves leftover.
This morning I went to the following website www.whfoods.com to study the benefits of kale and found it was a great cancer preventative and great for lowing your cholesterol. The kale's fiber wrap themselves around the bile acides and take them out your intestines bypassing your liver which lowers your cholesterol and helps to prevent the following cancers bladder, breast, colon, ovary, and postrate. You can get a more detail description of the process on the whfoods website. I'm all for any food that can keep me healthy and free of cancer. I got a few recipes off this website and off allrecipes.com. I will let you know which ones I like.
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