Eggplant

I'm making use of my produce from the farmer's market yesterday, as well as my crockpot and have a ton of "baked eggplant" simmering away... recipe courtesy of The Crockpot Cookbook. I was thinking it's really odd that eggplant is regularly used to substitute for meat-- sandwiches, eggplant parmesan. When you think about it, it's a bizarre substitution since eggplant has next to no nutritional value. It's like making the veggie option a wedge of iceberg lettuce. Then again, eggplant IS delicious...