First, the spinach: I sometimes like to use spinach leaves for my salad greens, and in that case I measure out two cups. The other night I tried making a scramble by cooking up 2 eggs with my "salad" (2 cups spinach leaves, half cup of diced tomatoes and green pepper, very yummy). That got me to thinking. 2 cups of spinach cooks WAY down, and at that point is essentially a steamed vegetable, but ...