Grab your
reusable bag and head to your local Farmer’s Market! It’s time to celebrate
National Salad Month! Yum! Yum!
As a person
who refrains from eating any meat or dairy, vegetables of all kinds make their
way to our family’s plates and tummies!
From a good-old-standard spinach, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and carrot
salad, to a more atypical cabbage, kale, yellow squash, sweet potato and onion
salad, I’m good for any and all!
Not only are
they great tasting, they’re downright good for the body as well! Veggies are packed full of vitamins and
essential nutrients. The more fresh the veggies – the higher the nutritional
content. More and more medical research
supports that eating green truly makes a difference in the disease-fighting
abilities of our bodies. That’s some
pretty good motivation to grab your bowl and folk (and homemade dressing) and
chow down!
You can even
take it a step further and grow some of your own fresh produce. Even if you don’t have a spot of dirt
outside, you can easily grow tomatoes, peppers and spinach in pots and
trays. And nothing tastes better or
feels more rewarding than planting, harvesting and savoring the food one grows themselves!
So, here’s
to National Salad Month! Send your
recipes my way! I truly can’t get enough!
Kathleen Ahern
Youth Services Librarian
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