Have you ever considered eating weeds?

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Have you ever considered eating weeds?
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Thu, 05-28-2009 - 10:48am
 How does a nice dandelion salad sound to you? Served with a side dish of Lamb's Quarters-it might not be as bad as you think. According to this blog post on NeverSayDiet.com, serving weeds seems to be a wildly growing  trend. Take a look at this and tell us if you'll be serving weeds any time soon:

We’ve all heard that dark, leafy greens are the best superfoods. Well, move over Brussels sprouts, weeds have taken over. You heard right—the sales of edible weeds nationwide have increased more than twice as fast as ordinary vegetables, reported The Wall Street Journal today. People are buying wild weeds (yep, like the stuff that grows in your lawn) instead of, just say, spinach. You can find weeds such as dandelion greens, burdock, purslane, lamb’s quarters and stinging nettles in your local supermarket and farmer’s market… and also in surrounding fields and yards.


More of this interesting dinner idea: What's for Dinner? Weeds







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Thu, 05-28-2009 - 11:13am

Never thought of eating weeds. I know you can eat nasturniums, too. Never eaten that either.


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Thu, 05-28-2009 - 11:46am

I have eaten dandelion salad with hard boiled egg


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Thu, 05-28-2009 - 10:56pm
I think I am all set LOL I can barely eat a normal salad, never mind putting something funky on it
Very interesting though!!

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Thu, 05-28-2009 - 11:11pm
Well while I love my salads,
Not too much on them so will pass on the weeds ..
Interesting though :)


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Fri, 05-29-2009 - 7:15am

Yes & stinging nettles are another very healthy weed as you see in the article.

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Fri, 05-29-2009 - 9:17am

The serve weed-like greens at many local resturaunts.
Our weather is to hot to grow lettuce,
So weeds it is LOL


A little more bitter than lettuce,
But very colorful and better for you I'm sure

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