Iron in dried apricots?

[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.