When I look at the Type O beneficial vegetable list, there are a high percentage of greens. Until I started the Blood Type Diet, my greens were limited to salad and an occasional serving of spinach. Now I have greens at least once, often twice a day. This week I've had turnip greens, beet greens, spinach, and bok choy, plus several salad greens.

Spinach is my favorite. I like it raw, I like it cooked. I like it plain or with butter or olive oil or raisins. I like it fresh or frozen. I even eat it canned if we're picnicking.

My second favorite is beet greens. I once wrote that the only bad thing about beet greens was that they came attached to beets. I really don't like cooked beets - fortunately my husband does. So he eats the beets and I eat the greens. We were made for each other.

I like Swiss Chard a lot. Last spring beautiful fresh Swiss Chard was in all the stores. I didn't see it all summer. I'm hoping it will be back this fall. It would be a shame if it were only a one season green.

Collard greens and turnip greens are next on my list. I can eat them plain, but they are much better with grilled onions or ground beef or spicy seasoned salt.

Kale I just can't eat alone. If it was not on the beneficial list, I probably wouldn't eat it at all. Kale cooked with black eyed peas and onion is good. Kale with butter and fruit only preserves sounds weird, but is quite tasty.

This week was my first time to try bok choy. My vegetable guide suggested that I fix the bulb and the leaves as separate vegetables. I put the bulb in stew. I thought it was good, but my husband did not care for it. The vegetable guide said the leaves tasted like spinach. That probably made my expectations way too high. I cooked it today with butter and salt. It was good, but - in my opinion - nothing like spinach.