Possible Clues:

• Popeye's pick-me-up
• Food panic that�s absurd -- don�t speak about it
• Putting gloss on news by a companion, one of the Greens
• Leaves a church after deliberate slanting of views
• Go rapidly round a church plant
• Chap in ground after sandwich initially and green stuff?
• Take pains to cook child healthy food
• Canny source of strength for the pipe-smoking sailor
• It provides iron for chaps in trouble
• You get so green in among the chaps