Suggestions for turnip substitute

[hoax]

Hello all..

I been having a really hard time finding turnip greens. First I didnt know how they were called in portuguese and Tania helped me out on that, but now that I know what they are I cant find them in good shape at the store..They just looked horrible..

Its easy to find collards and mustard, but I wanted to know what I should use as a 3rd green since I cant get turnip or dandelion. So far I been using Arugula.. Any better choices?

I added some green bell pepers to Vagas salad today. Was that bad? Only after I gave it to her I was reading the forum and I see Yellow and Red Bell peppers on the suggestions..something wrong with the green ones?!

thanks
renato

[IguanaKing]

Don't worry too much about always offering turnip greens, it isn't critical. They aren't available in good condition very often here either. Arugula is a good choice when you can't get other stuff. You might also try Cilantro occasionally. Green peppers in her salad should be just fine. The main reason I use red or yellow peppers is just for color contrast, to make my igs' food more colorful and visually appealing to them.

[hoax]

Thanks Sean... I was affraid there could be something wrong with the green bell peppers... thats sure a relief...

Like I said, Tania was helping me out with the translation of some english names of vegetables to portuguese. I just found this link and I remember seeing some other portuguese speaking users at IZ other then me and Tania, so I thought it could be useful to share it with them

www.sk.com.br/sk-veget.html

thanks again for the info..

renato

ps - I was having a hard time translating Cilantro because it was showing up as "coentro" but I always heard coentro was called Coriander...i just found this quote: "Cilantro: The leaves of the Coriander plant and also known as Chinese Parsley."

I for one HATE coriander, tastes way too strong for me, but I am gonna try it next time to see if Vaga will like it..

[prism_wolf]

I hope this helps. I have a few translations on the iguana diet using a translator site. Arugula is a very good addition.

Collard Greens - verdes do collard
Mustard Greens – verdes da mostarda
Turnip Greens - verdes do nabo
Dandelion Greens – verdes de dandelion
Arugula – Arugula
Watercress - agrião
Acorn squash – abobrinha de bolota
Summer Squash - abobrinha do verão
Green Bean - feijão verde
Cilantro – coentro
parsnip - nabo
Red Bell Pepper - pimenta de sino vermelha
Yellow Bell Pepper - pimenta de sino amarela
Yellow Wax Bean - feijão amarelo da cera
Sweet Potato - batata doce
Snow Peas - ervilhas-de-quebrar
Beet Greens - verdes de beterraba
Grape Leaves - folhas da uva
Grape - uva

[MAR]

Any one diet part is not critical rather you want a good and rotating variety of all in the diet. Around my area it usually happens that when I can't find one I cant find any of them.

[hoax]

Thanks Prism and MAR. I was just really curious if I could find turnips because I keep hearing how healthy they are.

The list you posted helps Prism and the link I posted has some extra ones I hadnt been able to translate before..