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200g of spinach sounds like a very reasonable amount for a single meal. I don't see the problem here.
Every single day. And then there's still other vitamins to cover.
Spinach has a lot more than just vitamin k, and so does everything else you eat. It would do you some good to actually record what you eat on an average day and take a look at their total nutritional content. A varied diet consisting of mostly whole foods will almost guarantee that you meet your daily needs. If your particular diet doesn't, this exercise would reveal where the holes are. I'm willing to bet it's a lot easier to patch up then you think.
Also, it seems that you only need 25g of spinach to reach your daily needs. That's a ridiculously tiny amount of spinach. Considering that vitamin K is fat-soluble and can be stored, a single 200g meal of spinach will satisfy your vitamin k needs for over a week.
Sources: USDA says spinach has 483µg of vitamin K per 100g spinach. Health Canada recommends 120µg of vitamin K per day for an adult male. FDA also uses 120µg for the purposes of nutrition labels.
Thanks for the tip I might definitely do that. That being said vitamin k and spinach are just examples, I can't recall exactly what it was. But I do know I've looked it up many times over the years, and every time came to the conclusion that I should ignore whatever the values said, because it made no sense at all. Like who knows perhaps it was kale or sum.