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The gospel of kale

January 12, 2016

I’ve lost count of the number of meals I’ve eaten in the last week that contained kale. There was a salmon fillet over kale for dinner one night, and then a couple of days of smoothies with kale and strawberries. There was a kale breakfast salad I ate for lunch one day, and a kale salad with beans mixed in a jar for lunch another day.

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It might sound like I’ve gone kale crazy, and before you think I’m some kind of healthy food fanatic, let me be clear: I have avoided the idea of kale and other health food for a lot of years. Before this week, you probably could have even called me a kale skeptic.

But in one grocery shopping trip, I not only bought kale, but swiss chard, too! So many greens! And the kale was more than I needed for one recipe, so I had to do something with it. Waste not, want not and all of that.

Read the rest of this post over at Putting on the New, where I write on the 12th of each month.

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Filed Under: faith & spirituality, food Tagged With: healthy eating, kale, putting on the new

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