Favorite iron rich foods?

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That aren’t meat?
I have a serious meat aversion but because of it, my rbc is low now and my hemoglobin dropped from a 15.4 to a 12.2 in 10 weeks.  I knew something was up because my pica cravings went through the roof!
I also don’t eat many carbs (celiac disease) so can’t do cereals but I do have gf oatmeal every morning
Edit : I also have HG so a supplement is out.  I can’t stomach any of them even with zofran.

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I read that cooking in cast iron helps as well.

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I've been doing a lot if Spinach or bean salads, I add quinoa (I know that's not celiac safe tho). Also lentil curries have been something I've been making a lot lately. I also usually add dried fruit to my oatmeal in the morning (usually raisins or prunes). My iron is also crazy low and I'm not a big meat eater and supplements really bother my stomach 👎

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So idk about iron rich foods, but there is this iron fish you can put in your food and cook with it to add iron to it. I can’t eat meat right now and have to eat carbs basically. You can google ot. It’s the neatest thing ever

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Spinach. It will go into anything, and be basically tasteless. Broccoli also. Everything that is green.
But I suggest Google it, there is a list of those, also do you know how to eat then to get most iron out of it. I didn't and I hurt ny iron levels like that at the beginning.
Basically calcium (that is also in antaacids) should never be eaten at the same time as iron, because these two cancel each other out (and I basically drank milk on everything). Vitamin ci on the other hand helps iron to absorb, so it is good to take orange juice.
And mostly, if you will be borderline deficient (under 11 already should be a problem if I remember correctly), then animal based iron (hemoglobin) is still the easiest for your body to take in. So even if some plant has more iron in it, your body won't get it all, but from meat it absorbs better.
And as I was basicalky really low on iron, and I truly didn't want to eat liver (that is the best source of iron there is), then I just bought supplement made of animal origin. It didn't make me nauseous or anything similar than regular iron supplement did before. And my iron levels didn't go up much, but they stopped dropping and stayed in the lower acceptable level eventually.
Oh, and I ate spinach still. Spinach in everything. Even my husband started to like that thing and is really happy when I make spinach and lentils dish. 😂

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Green leafy veggies, there’s a lot out there

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