Re: Need some suggestions!

[Guest guest]

Caboose,

how about spinach...spinach salad is the best maybe with a few

blueberries thrown in but if you can't stomach that try cooked spinach

with a bit of garlic and lemon or with some parmesan cheese melted on

top. Also very fortified with iron is cream of wheat!

Other foods that have iron are:

Clams (3 oz have 24 mgs of iron)...clam chowder anyone??!!

Oysters

Soybeans

Lima beans

Kidney beans

Lentils

Pumpkin

White beans

I'll try to think of some more iron foods for you.

Sara girl

> Hi all,

>

> I need some suggestions for some iron fortified foods! Now don't

tell

> me liver, YUC!! I have a list but can't stand anything on it.

> Prunes, figs, raisins, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!! I have a week to get this

> hemoglobin (iron) count higher!

>

> Thanks for any suggestions,

> --The low iron caboose!

[Guest guest]

Hiya!

Dark leafy greens have tonnes of iron. Also, try beets or raspberry

tea. You can also eat the beet greens. Good luck!

Fay

> Hi all,

>

> I need some suggestions for some iron fortified foods! Now don't

tell

> me liver, YUC!! I have a list but can't stand anything on it.

> Prunes, figs, raisins, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!! I have a week to get this

> hemoglobin (iron) count higher!

>

> Thanks for any suggestions,

> --The low iron caboose!

[Guest guest]

Hey ,

My surgeon told me I needed to get my iron intake up before my surgery

too, and I found it was a lot easier to just take a supplement. Since

I had taking horse-sized capsuls, I actually got the Flinstones

chewable childrens vitamin. It has 100% of your daily iron need in

one pill (? Barney or Fred?). They actually taste pretty good too --

kind of like candy! ;-) It's a lot better than liver anyhow! Good

luck in your preperation --- you're almost there!

> Hi all,

>

> I need some suggestions for some iron fortified foods! Now don't

tell

> me liver, YUC!! I have a list but can't stand anything on it.

> Prunes, figs, raisins, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!! I have a week to get this

> hemoglobin (iron) count higher!

>

> Thanks for any suggestions,

> --The low iron caboose!

[Guest guest]

Thanks Fay,

I can handle the dark leafy greens, and I also like beets. I will

surely try the raspberry tea!

Thanks a bunch for your suggestions!

> > Hi all,

> >

> > I need some suggestions for some iron fortified foods! Now

don't

> tell

> > me liver, YUC!! I have a list but can't stand anything on it.

> > Prunes, figs, raisins, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!! I have a week to get

this

> > hemoglobin (iron) count higher!

> >

> > Thanks for any suggestions,

> > --The low iron caboose!

[Guest guest]

The very best thing you can do is take Floradix, it's a liquid iron &

B vitamin supplement that you can get at any good health food store.

Because it's a liquid, it's easier absorbed than pill supplements

(which can also bung you up apparently).

I took this for about a month pre-op (1 dose a day) and then 2 doses a

day post-op.

It was recommended both by a nurse friend who'd had this surgery and

my cranial massage therapist. The nurse friend had taken it years

before during her pregnancy.

I think spinach is high in iron too, but I'd suggest the Floradix is

the best solution for you.

Hope that helps!

> Hi all,

>

> I need some suggestions for some iron fortified foods! Now don't

tell

> me liver, YUC!! I have a list but can't stand anything on it.

> Prunes, figs, raisins, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!! I have a week to get this

> hemoglobin (iron) count higher!

>

> Thanks for any suggestions,

> --The low iron caboose!