r/Thrifty • u/Traditional_Fan_2655 • Mar 23 '26

🥦 Food & Groceries 🥦 Versatile Veggies

What veggie do you find to be the most versatile? How do you use it?

In a critical mindset of don't waste food, someone always considers a use that others later think, oh yeah - that's a good one! So what is your most versatile veggie and how do you make it so?

24 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

93 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/moinatx Mar 23 '26

Spinach. Spinach salads. Spinach, onion, & tomatoes in an omelette, spinach instead of lettuce in a sandwich. Mediterranean Spinach-Chickpea Stew, Spinach, Mushroom and Onion Pizza, Spinach Quiche, Spinach, Black Bean, Onion, & Pepper Enchalada or Taco

3

u/so-so-suck-ya-toe Mar 23 '26

Also you can freeze spinach unlike most other lettuce-like leafy greens and use it later in smoothies, stews, or other one-pot meals!

1

u/Traditional_Fan_2655 Mar 28 '26

Do you parboil yours first? Or do you just wash and freeze as is?

2

u/so-so-suck-ya-toe Mar 29 '26

Admittedly I buy tubs of prewashed spinach so I’ll just throw it in the freezer. I would def wash and dry (best you can) before freezing so you can just throw a handful in whatever you want. I love to take a bag of frozen spinach and crumple it up (in lieu of chopping it) and throw it into a big rice-based one-pot meal.