This is NOT what it looks like.

02/21/17 254.6 lbs

It's dried spinach.

This is what 2 biiig serving bowls of fresh  spinach looks like dehydrated and ground up in a coffee grinder. This is a coarser grind than most any given supplement on the market. At a totally fine grind, it would be up to half that size--if not more compact. Processing it to remove some of the fiber? Even more of a reduction.

The thing is that no one eats 2 big bowls of spinach a day. They might eat a couple slices of bread or a mountian of shrimp, but not the nutrients that they need from vegetables, and the more the soil they are grown in is degraded from overfarming, the less of what you need is in each bowl.


The biggest problem with processing your own powders is that it's time consuming. I started the dehydrator at no later than 10 this morning, and ground it all by about 7pm. To be able to do a whole big bag of spinach? That's 3 days of processing. Thankfully, you don't have to baby the dehydrator. You will, though, have to wait days to do a big recipe that calls for spinach powder.

And it makes a mess and puts spinach powder in the air. I don't mean to accidentally snort my daily allotment.  But, I did want to make some homemade tortillas with veggies in them, or some waffle boats, so suffer a green nose, I will.

But not with this batch. This one is for my mom.

 (Please, if you are going to transport anything that looks like this, clearly label it what it is.)