Gimme FREE Spinach! - Living on the Cheap and Easy Part 4

[wizardangel]

a good dehydrator item around my house ...~ 80 mg of Vitamin C ~ 11,600 IU of Vitamin A ~ 72 mg of Phosphorus ~ 309 mg of Calcium as well as good amounts of ~ Thiamin ~ Riboflavin ~ Niacin ~ Iron,,,powder this up and add to noodle recipe !! rabbit and noodle casserole

[FlamebergeDuster]

My mom taught be about this and other plants people could live off of... growing some lamb's quarter and dandelions right now.

[GettingThereGreen]

This video came up in my "suggested videos" so thought I'd take a look. I didn't know you could eat this. We have had that come up as a "weed" for some time. Think I'll give it a shot this year.

[SSanf]

@GettingThereGreen Oh, please do try it. I think you will like it. And, if you do you can enjoy it free, with no work other than picking it, for the rest of your life.

[GettingThereGreen]

@SSanf If I can find some in my yard I'll certainly put some aside and grow it... and try it. Hey... feel free to check out our videos as well. Would love advice, thoughts etc on our "operation". :)

[jihadacadien]

Oh I really think this is what I have here!!! could you eat the young leaves without cooking them?

[SSanf]

@jihadacadien I have heard that people do put them into salad. But, mine always gets eaten like spinach because I like it so much. Never any left for the salad.

[jihadacadien]

@SSanf I guess I'll get to try them out soon ;)

[SSanf]

@jihadacadien Here is a lady who likes them raw in salad watch?v=8SLQorvzSSI

[jihadacadien]

@SSanf Thanks! I think I've seen this one and didn't notice!

[velcroboy87]

hi i was hoping you would be doing more of this series?

[SquiggMonster]

I like my green vegetables to be eaten by someone else.

[SSanf]

Well, I guess you either like it or you don't. I love my wild spinach.

[nicanicabad]

Lambsquarter gets its name from the tradition of eating the green along with the first harvest of wheat around the harvest festival known as Lammas. Over time Lammasquarter became lambsquarter. (it's a Celtic festival)

[SSanf]

Great info! We really should be friends.

[captainimij]

I'm going to eat that stuff as soon as I can.I've been weeding it out of my flowerbeds for years now.Again S Sanf thank you for the video.

[nicanicabad]

It's prevalent in Denmark too.

[SSanf]

I got this from Wiki.

"Its native range is obscure due to extensive cultivation,] but includes most of Europe, from where Linnaeus described the species in 1753. Plants native in eastern Asia are included under C. album, but often differ from European specimens. It is widely introduced elsewhere, e.g. Africa, Australasia, North America,[9] and Oceania, and now occurs almost everywhere in soils rich in nitrogen, especially on wasteland."

[nicanicabad]

One cup of raw lamb's quarter leaves contains: ~ 80 mg of Vitamin C ~ 11,600 IU of Vitamin A ~ 72 mg of Phosphorus ~ 309 mg of Calcium as well as good amounts of ~ Thiamin ~ Riboflavin ~ Niacin ~ Iron I'm dog sitting a bug eye'd dog with stinky ears and on the walk just offered some lamb's quarter to two horses -they took it in their lips and spit it out hahaha! My chickens love it.

[SSanf]

True! Thanks!

[beckezmail]

Sweet!

[AnethSvartalf]

This is really awesome. Thanks!

[SSanf]

I got some wild seeds free years ago and have had free spinach ever since. Life can be good.

It never takes over as a weed around here because I eat any that escapes its designated place in the garden.

[gogreen18]

awesome! very cool video, i've never heard of lambs quarter, but i love my greens.

your ending was cute, haha

[SSanf]

Now that you know what it looks like, you may find it growing all over the place unless you live where there just isn't much vegetation at all. Ask around. Someone may be able to point it out to you.