Pregnancy food cravings was: intermittent fasting

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No, nothing bizzare like that. I think the worst I did was a peanut

butter, butter and mashed avocado sandwich (at least that's the only thing

that made others gag at me...)

The only things out of the ordinary that I can think of:

-I craved (and still crave) salmon roe - I've eaten it every chance I've

gotten (as long as it was fresh enough). I loved salmon roe pre-pregnancy,

but never went so out of my way to try to obtain it (and was never so

frustrated about not being able to get it before).

-My Parmesan obsession... I'd literally eat 8+ oz of Parmesan on half a

serving of whole wheat pasta - I went through so many lbs of parmesan during

my second trimester I had a part of the fridge reserved for my stash.

-Whole wheat buttermilk pancakes with fruit on top, or sometimes HFCS-free

jelly if I didn't have fresh fruit handy - as often as I could be bothered

to make them.

-Nuts, peanut butter and/or sunflower butter reappeared in my diet after not

being around for quite some time, but not in terribly large amounts. Nuts

were a great at night snack (In my first trimester, I needed food several

times a night otherwise I'd have morning sickness and nuts were just

perfect: salty, protein, quick easy nibbles when I was half asleep).

-On mornings when I didn't want to eat, bacon was pretty much the only thing

that could get me interested in food. I went through a lot of bacon

starting in my second trimester, but not so much in my third (no meat except

for raw fish in my first though, thanks to scent induced nausea).

-Butter, butter, butter and more butter. <G> If I had a sandwich, that'd

be 1/4-1/2 stick of butter. Grilled cheese or cheese and crackers/bread

took at least 1/2 stick each. Mashed potatoes or popcorn (yeah, I know, not

nixtamalized - I did my best to keep that at a minimum, but it really is one

of the most perfect vehicles for butter... and salt!) both took a whole

stick of butter each and a whole bunch of sea salt, with the potatoes being

topped off with as much cream as I could fluff in.

Some less out-of-the-ordinary stuff included more ice cream than usual, but

not rediculous amounts. Same goes for milk: a bit more than usual.

More cheese too - delicious mild cheddar on whole wheat crackers...

Really the biggest things I noted was that my sugar intake went up a little

(mostly from fruit, some from sugar in ice cream or jelly), as did my PUFA

intake (predominantly from nuts and bacon).

-Lana

" There is nothing more useful than sun and salt. " - Latin proverb

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM, <oz4caster@...> wrote:

> So, have you had any unusual food cravings with your pregnancy?

> Maybe fermented pickles with raw ice cream?

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