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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven.

And this is in fact episode four of the Kitchen Garden mini series.

And the idea of this series is to give you in a nugget the vegetables I think are completely invaluable to grow. Well not the vegetables, the sort of edibles. In the last episode,

I did my favourite herbs and in this episode I'm doing my favourite salads. And as ever with me,

all my dogs just arrived. Hello dusty, I've divided their favourite salads between August and April and April till August. And my life would be a much

lesser thing if I couldn't go outside and pick my own salads every single day of the year.

And I mean that in that we tend to think salad, you know, Caesar salad, crunchy cos lettuce,

it's a summer thing. But I really passionately believe it isn't. And the more I read about nutrition,

whether it's Tim Specter or Jessie and Chapozy with a glucose goddess, the more I read about nutrition, whether it's Tim Specter or Jesse and Chapozy with a glucose goddess,

the more I know that my instinct, which is that salad is good for us every day of the year, is absolutely right.

And if you read Jesse's book on glucose, one of her hacks, rather sort of new American word that I'm not so keen on,

but one of her tips to long-term health is that the first thing you eat, ideally in any meal,

including breakfast, is actually a mini salad, something raw and vegetable-based, or not even raw, it could be broccoli,

but what that does is it creates a kind of net in the base of your stomach and then in

the base of your gut, which then means that you absorb any glucose product that you put in

your mouth much more slowly, because it creates this kind of seal,

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