What Are Spring Greens?
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Maddy
Adult Guinea Pig
They are disgusting vegetables that belong to the cabbage family and meet your room when you're feeding it to your pegs smell like your school dinner hall
Veggies Galore
Senior Guinea Pig
I LOVE spring greens ! ( yes - humans can eat them too )
I'm not sure what they are called in Australia - but they're known as Collard in America
They're well worth getting for guineas as they are the mildest of brassicas and the lowest in calcium .
Tiny
Teenage Guinea Pig
@PiggyOwner Ha ha, I recognise the Asda ones! 50p a pack at the moment! I don't usually shop in my local Asda as it's quite small and I always (mistakenly) think it's not going to have a wide range of stock, usually go to Tesco or Morrisons where I pay around £1 for greens.
My basket yesterday was quite weird, I'd already done my weekly 'human' shop and mainly went to the Asda as they've got a special on coffee pods. Ended up with extra 'top up' bits for me plus piggy veg, so it looked like this:
- Massive bag of greens
- Curly kale
- Cucumber
- Doritos
- Haagen Dazs
Wonder if the checkout operator was deciding if I was having a health kick or a slob out
My basket yesterday was quite weird, I'd already done my weekly 'human' shop and mainly went to the Asda as they've got a special on coffee pods. Ended up with extra 'top up' bits for me plus piggy veg, so it looked like this:
- Massive bag of greens
- Curly kale
- Cucumber
- Doritos
- Haagen Dazs
Wonder if the checkout operator was deciding if I was having a health kick or a slob out
Kylie80
Adult Guinea Pig
I dont even think ive seen them here even under a different name. Might have to check out the bigger supermarkets.
Tiny
Teenage Guinea Pig
Kylie80
Adult Guinea Pig
That's hilarious Maddy!
Kylie80
Adult Guinea Pig
Thats what my trolley usually looks like but except the chips and icecream (diabetic) it's usually coffee pods. I think I'm a coffee addict and freely admit it.@PiggyOwner Ha ha, I recognise the Asda ones! 50p a pack at the moment! I don't usually shop in my local Asda as it's quite small and I always (mistakenly) think it's not going to have a wide range of stock, usually go to Tesco or Morrisons where I pay around £1 for greens.
My basket yesterday was quite weird, I'd already done my weekly 'human' shop and mainly went to the Asda as they've got a special on coffee pods. Ended up with extra 'top up' bits for me plus piggy veg, so it looked like this:
- Massive bag of greens
- Curly kale
- Cucumber
- Doritos
- Haagen Dazs
Wonder if the checkout operator was deciding if I was having a health kick or a slob out
acapae
Junior Guinea Pig
"Spring greens" is a bit of a catch-all term, rather than meaning one specific thing. Although regionally of course people may be more specific with their meaning!
It's the term given for leaves of brassicas for which other parts of the plant are more usually eaten (swede, turnip, broccoli, Brussels sprouts etc.), or for brassicas with which the leaves are only labelled as such when they're young and tender (cabbage etc).
Collard greens more specifically refers to young tender cabbage leaves. So all collard greens are spring greens, but not all spring greens are collard greens.
The main thing to remember is that it's a brassica (in the cabbage family), in terms of not feeding too much of the same thing at once.
It's the term given for leaves of brassicas for which other parts of the plant are more usually eaten (swede, turnip, broccoli, Brussels sprouts etc.), or for brassicas with which the leaves are only labelled as such when they're young and tender (cabbage etc).
Collard greens more specifically refers to young tender cabbage leaves. So all collard greens are spring greens, but not all spring greens are collard greens.
The main thing to remember is that it's a brassica (in the cabbage family), in terms of not feeding too much of the same thing at once.
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