Topic: High Iron Foods

[landofoz]

I have started bruising like crazy.  Even if I lightly bump into stuff, I get large bruises.  Any suggestions for high iron food?  We've been eating LOTS of chicken recently, so I was thinking of putting something more RED into my diet. 

[Annette]

Liver, spinach, sardines, nuts.  Also remember to have vitamin C at the same time to help your body adsorb the iron.

[bestofour]

Bruising easily can mean many things, as I'm sure you know, so make sure it's just the iron thing.

[barleychown]

Like Sheri says...be sure first.

Then...work on finding family acceptable foods. Spinach can be made into a pesto. Or used in wraps.

Nuts go nice in cookies.  Or in oatmeal...

Red meat...well, that speaks for itself. 

[bestofour]

I think egg yokes are a suggested source of iron too.

[landofoz]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I always have low iron levels (hemoglobin?).  The health department is always bothering me about it.  In the past month, we've switched to eating almost always chicken or veggie dishes.  I think cutting out the red meat has made the difference with the bruising.  We just can't afford it anymore.  That stuff is getting extremely expensive.  

Our family loves spinach - as long as it's not canned.  I can add that in without any issues.  And I love the nuts in cookies.  The girl scout sale that Rachael did offered chocolate covered almonds and I just opened those.  Perhaps that should be "my" jar 'cause of health issues...  

[Dianna]

Aren't raisins high in iron? It seems I remember my mother giving them to us to keep our iron up.

At any rate, you could buy the single serving boxes to keep on hand and eat one box a day to help with your iron, if they are...

[landofoz]

Thanks for the suggestion, Dianna, but raisins rank right up there with peas.  Ewwwwwwwwww.  (Unless you catch me during some weird chocolate covered raisin cravin' which I have from time to time)

[bayou girl]

Thanks for the suggestion, Dianna, but raisins rank right up there with peas.  Ewwwwwwwwww.  (Unless you catch me during some weird chocolate covered raisin cravin' which I have from time to time)

sounds like a good excuse to have come chocolate covered raisins to me

[bestofour]

raisins look like dead flies to me.

[Penny]

Hmmmm, sounds like there are lots of great suggestions Sarah, and i've heard the same thing regarding raisins too.

Yogurt is another good one, and brussel sprouts, asparagus, i was told even banana's help, and great for potassium too 

Shhhhh Sheri, dont tell her that