Iron in dried apricots?

[Owlie]

Dehydrated fruit also has more calories, due to the loss of water. Are you sure it isn't just that the iron has been "concentrated" by the loss of water?

Are we now talking calories per gram, or calories per serving.
The numbers I've been looking at are per 100g.

[westtexas]

Aside from dried fruits... what about cooking with cast iron? It leeches iron into your foods when you use it. Whether this is a source of iron the body can use or not, I do not know - but I have heard it can be helpful for those with low iron.

Personally I love cooking with cast iron because the clean up is so much easier - and by that I mean... no clean up.

I could be totally wrong though.

[jessmarimba]

Aside from dried fruits... what about cooking with cast iron? It leeches iron into your foods when you use it. Whether this is a source of iron the body can use or not, I do not know - but I have heard it can be helpful for those with low iron.

Personally I love cooking with cast iron because the clean up is so much easier - and by that I mean... no clean up.

I could be totally wrong though.

I've heard that too but I don't know that I cook enough for it to be worth it. Which is also part of the problem...meat generally needs to be cooked to be eaten, and I'm just too lazy/tired to do more than make a salad or a quick pasta meal for dinner. PB&J or soup for lunch, and yogurt & fruit for breakfast. I figured the apricots (and munching on pumpkin seeds) are a small change to start.

[Owlie]

What about cooking in big batches on weekends? Crockpot beef stew, or a week's worth of taco/burrito meat...

[jessmarimba]

I'll probably crockpot again when it gets cooler.

The other problem is that without a microwave, it takes longer to reheat leftovers than the salad/pasta options. And I don't really want a microwave. I was just looking for less obvious sources of iron.