What alternatives do we have in green leafy vegetables?

Since Spinach and now Lettuces are recalled and unavailable in most markets, what green leafy vegetables do we have as alternatives for salads and to provide the essential nutrients that Lettuce and Spinach usually provide in the diet?

radicchio, kale, spring greens, collards, turnip tops, broccoli, pea pods, dandelion greens, fiddlehead fern (great sauteed in butter), boston bib and buttercurl and romain.

This lettuce one was again from the Salinas Valley in CA. Specifically, a brand called Foxy. I don't know if that's in markets, but it's readily available in bulk for chefs.

I heard one chef on the news today saying "I don't know what I can do without lettuce!"

There are still many types of Cabbages(Napa, Green, Red), Bok Coy, Swiss Chard, Kale, Escrole...

Turnip greens
Mustard greens
Collard greens
Chinese cabbage
Regular cabbage
Water crest
and the list goes on...

i eat salads all the time and i am so angry after hearing they took spinach and now salad off the menus and grocery store shelves but i guess we salad eaters can replace lettuce with green peppers red peppers mushrooms broccoli cauliflour carrots and all sorts of veges and make a vege salad

skull you forgot mustard greens.

There are tons of other stuff.

When did this happen? I just got bags of lettuce yesterday and all kinds of green lettuces were still in the produce department. I thought it was just one brand that was recalled.

You STILL can have spinach and all the leafy, green vegetables. I have found that buying the frozen boxes of spinach, and greens is a safe way to get your delicious carotenoids in your diet. I eat two boxes a day of the frozen spinach. I simply microwave the box whole for 3 minutes in a microwave-safe bowl. I then remove the spinach or greens from the box...it will be HOT...and microwave the greens alone in the bowl for an additional minute. I have worked in a medical laboratory during the first Gulf War and three year's thereafter so I DO know that the dangerous bacteria (if they even are present) will be destroyed entirely using this process. As an ex-microbiologist, I know that e-coli bacteria will usually die when under the freezing conditions of spot freezing the frozen veggies undergo for our supermarkets. IF any e-coli still is surviving these harsh conditions, it certainly WILL be destroyed by the 3 + 1 minutes' microwaving it will undergo in the above process. The beauty of all of this is that very few of the nutrients are lost in this process...you get your spinach and your greens and NO nasty little bugs!

try buying greens from a local farm.

How about Kale? Or bean sprouts?

It looks like we are running out of options. I say this because with the spinach thing it was easy, just don't eat spinach. but now that the green lettuce is being recalled it makes me afraid of other produce as well. i mean just because it hasn't been recalled doesn't mean that kale won't be next week, or maybe chard the week after. i didn't let the spinach thing scare me too much.... but now.....? i don't know. and i love salads and i have a pet bunny who needs his fresh veggies. it's pretty scary, right?