[Sca-cooks] Dietary Fiber?

[Gretchen Beck]

Spinach pie, perhaps? (My grandmother used to swear by spinach for her 
daily fiber). According to calorieking.com, 1 cup of cooked spinach has 4.3 
grams of dietary fiber. Add some raisins or dates, and it's yummier with 
even more fiber.

toodles, margaret

--On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:11 PM -0500 "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus 
Adamantius" <adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Elise Fleming wrote:
>
>> Greetings!  My pregnant daughter-in-law has been in the hospital on
>> bed rest for over a month (due date is May 5).  She is in need of
>> more fiber in her diet than the hospital is offering and obviously
>> she can't exercise to keep her system "properly moving".  Tomorrow
>> I'm going to bake some bran muffins.  Are there any other high
>> fiber dishes that you could suggest that would be relatively easy
>> for me to prepare in the few days I have left here in Texas?  Thanks!
>
> "Texas" is probably an issue here. Not to criticize any one locale,
> but I'm sure we all have suggestions that might appear practical from
> our end, but _may_ not be practical, depending on available groceries.
>
> Off the top of my head...
>
> Any 100% whole wheat baked products, bulgur pilaf or whole wheat
> pasta. Kasha. Cookies made from pure almond or other nut flour.
> Chopped raw vegetable salads, ranging from cole slaw to grated carrot
> salad (the sweet nasty kind with raisins, or the savory one without)
> to the Israeli variant on tabbouleh that is identical except for the
> absence of bulgur, so instead of the garnish the veggies are the main
> ingredient...
>
> Lots of fresh fruit, whole or as a fruit salad (bearing in mind that
> Jello is not technically a fruit, despite prevailing views in some
> parts of the world... ditto marshmallows ;-)  ) Coconut is high in
> fiber.
>
> I'd stay away from dried legumes (which have some fiber but are also
> generally starchy). Small amounts of dried fruit are good, and leave,
> if possible, the skins on potatoes (just scrub and cut out the eyes
> before cooking)...
>
> HTH,
>
> Adamantius
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> "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la
> brioche!" / "If there's no bread, you have to say, let them eat cake!"
>      -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
> "Confessions", 1782
>
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