Eat your greens

And your reds, pinks, oranges and purples, too.

I forget that if you get your food only from the grocery store, that silverbeet only comes in one form: green with a white stem. I forget that there is one kind of a summer squash variety called a 'zucchini', and that it's dark green and cylindrical. I forget that tomatoes are always red, carrots are always orange, beans are always green and potatoes are always white on the inside.

My fluoro-coloured silverbeet, green, yellow, black and purple tomatoes, seven varieties of zucchini and button squash (green, white, bright yellow), purple beans and purple carrots and purple potatoes make so much more sense to me. Finding little pieces of flamingo-pink silverbeet stem in my silverbeet & lentil pie tonight made me smile.