This is the single best thing I buy at the store each week: a giant box of baby spinach. Each week hundreds of spinach babies are plucked from life, from their mother’s leafy wombs, and packed into a cold plastic coffin destined to my refrigerator. From there I consume their pure stainless souls.

Take note, this is a different product than the frozen rectangular prisms of spinach you may be used to buying.

Four excellent things about baby spinach in a box

• This stuff keeps forever, literally. No, not literally, figuratively. But still, it keeps in my fridge for about a week. When was the last time a mere bag of leafy greens kept that long?
• Spinach is a superfood! — whatever that means! Listen, The People, I am not a nutritionist or a dietitianist. I do, however, know several and hope that when I say something stupid they will mock me until I cry. Regardless, NutritionData.com can drop some spinach knowledge on you. Spinach is great at: Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and iron. Iceberg lettuce sucks at everything.
• It is, relatively, cheap! A box, depending on the sales at Kroger, costs between three and four dollars.
• The box it comes in is made from corn? This actually might be terrible considering … [insert boring corn/ethanol diatribe].

The uses for that box of spinach are innumerable, countless, infinite! I use a good bit of it making side salads to go with our meals: spinach, walnuts, cheese, raisins, balsamic vinegar. You can also substitute spinach for anything calling for crappy ol’ lettuce. Or, just throw it in whatever you’ve got going on in your skillet, it’ll cook down and taste delicious.