For those who know me, you’ll be pleased to hear that I’ve been doing my best to incorporate greens into my diet –The one thing I’ve never been very good at. Not surprising though since I was raised by a man who says “ I eat greens. Cows eat greens. And I eat cows.” So simple daddy… Some day I’m going to have to have the conversation with my father that the cows he’s been eating hardly eat greens, or any other thing that resembles a healthy diet.
My father also banned spinach in our household. No joke. We NEVER ate spinach. Something I always loved bragging about as a kid. It wasn’t that I hated spinach; it was more that in my little kid brain it made him a superhero of sorts. He had the power to ban vegetables. And at the same time, it made him one of “us”. A vegetable hater. And isn’t that what most kids were who grew up in the era of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and sugar laden juice boxes? I only knew a couple “strange” kids who loved their spinach.
But now, I realize I get to be my own superhero. Which I guess is fitting- since that is what Alicia Silverstone calls the third diet in her book- The Superhero’s Diet. I’m not following it 100% but I am trying to work it in as much as possible. I’m eating leafy greens, including huge SPINACH salads! I’ve even bought some Kambucha Tea (store bought) but am excited to learn more about these interesting, foreign superfoods. And I’m also learning, they’re really not that foreign. In fact, my co-worker who sits right next to me said he drinks Kambucha every morning. And he makes his own from the same Kambucha organisms he’s had for over 10 years. Crazy! But I like it. I’m excited to learn new things, try new things, and to be a little daring. I mean what kind of a superhero would I be if I didn’t just go for it?
