Feeding the Preggo

Baked Pot

Highlighting some of the foods from this week:

All right, so I don't eat many potatoes, because they are nightshade vegetables and my joints do better without them, and when I read that potatoes were recommended by the Bradley natural birth method (three per week!), I thought to myself "Yeah right."  But, as you can tell by the picture, I've gone to the dark side a few times.  And yes, there's pastured, organic butter, organic cheddar cheese, and organic sour cream slathered all over it.  I've got my major pregnancy food groups in: fat and protein. 

I've been craving them bad lately, and I almost had to bake one while writing this blog post!  Kali keeps telling me that if you microwave the potato for 30 seconds or three minutes (whatever) and then put it in the oven for 30 minutes, that I could have my potato faster.  I tell her to get my potato away from that microwave!  Agh!

Gasp, I know there's a picture of Horizon sour cream, and I stopped buying Horizon ten years ago when the milk tasted as if it wasn't really organic.  There weren't any other organic sour cream options, and since it's now verified organic by an additional third-party organization, I took a chance.  And, it actually taste pretty good!  It doesn't taste like the chemicals the circa 2002 Horizon milk tasted like.  You can tell that a product is certified by another third-party if it lists another certifying company on the back.  Only the USDA certification goes on the front, and their has been some question as to their regulation or standards in recent years.  If there's another organic option, I would opt for that instead.

Chicken and stew in a crockpot.

On Friday night, Kali stuck a whole, organic, free-range chicken in a crock pot.  She had some organic vegetable broth that she threw in there with potatoes and carrots.  She salt and peppered that baby, because that's the only seasoning this pregnant lady can eat right now.  And, that green stuff is kombu, a seaweed that is a left over habit of mine from macrobiotic days.  Usually, I just pull that kombu out after the nutrients soak into the water of whatever I am cooking.  However, we slow cooked this dish so long that the kombu wasn't even noticeable.  I've been taking leftovers for lunch. 

Whole Grain Artisan Bre

I've been eating whole grain toast and using bread to create sandwiches and instead of buns on burgers.  So, Kali whipped out her cookbooks and whipped me up the bread of my choice.  I picked the first standard whole grain loaf that came up.  The recipe looked something like this one.  It is wonderful.  It is one of the healthy items that she can out-do me on.  Even though I can find a fresh-baked, organic, whole grain loaf at Whole Foods that doesn't have a lot of junk it it, it still comes with some ingredients that bread can do without.  So, since Kali loves to bake, she is overjoyed to have a hungry pregnant lady in the house who will gobble up her tasty creations.

Kali brought home some homemade elderberry jam from a friends' house the other night, and that goes wonderfully with this bread. 

Daily Fruit Bowl

Then, there's this wondrous monstrosity to the right.  It's one orange, a handful of grapes, half of a container of strawberries, and two carrots.  If I never have to eat another damn carrot after Lily is born, then I will be a happy woman.  I wish that I'd remember to buy the bananas, and when I do that, I wish I'd remember to take them to work, and then I wish I'd remember to eat them.  I start chowing on this bowl of fruit once I get to work and keep going throughout the whole day. 

Lily is getting bigger every week, so Kali and I are doing a good job of feeding her. Yay!