Food Issues

I can't really write about being new to CO anymore. I'm not a newbie anymore. I suppose that I could blog about the beautiful fall colors, but I've written about last year. I need to face the facts...there are newer people to CO than me. I'm moving on with my blog!

I think the only thing that I have lots of material to write about is the thing that's on my mind all day...my impending birth and baby. It's on my mind so much for obvious reasons, but also because I have developed some serious food issues. By the way, as I finished that last sentence, I was also finishing off an ice cream bar. Although, in my defense, it was organic, coconut milk ice cream. Therefore it's okay in my book.

The first food issue that I noticed was pretty early in my pregnancy. Maybe at 8 weeks or so. I was starving. I'm talking gnawing, hunger pangs starving. I would eat something (usually a very large portion) and I'd feel these horribly strong hunger feelings 30 minutes later. I had to eat again just to stave it off! That crazy hunger lasted about 2 weeks. It was awful.

The second food issue that I've had since about the same time is major food aversions and very unhealthy cravings. These haven't gone away at all. Basically anything healthy and wholesome sounds nauseating to me. All I'm craving is processed food, fried food, dessert, and anything else that I would try very hard not to eat under normal circumstances.

Planning the weekly dinner menu is a huge challenge because all of my normal recipes sound truly nauseating to me. Homemade portobello mushroom and bison chili= yuck! Hormel chili= yes! I literally sit for almost an hour and flip through my recipes and find only one that sounds kind of okay. Poor Whit. He's been so patient with me. After I've flipped through the recipes three times, I usually call him over to complain. He patiently make suggestions to me - all of which I quickly shoot down and say, "no way! Yuck!"

Needless to say, I don't remember having these strong aversions when I was pregnant with Ella. I do remember that I couldn't eat eggs or tamales when I was pregnant with her. But that was basically it. Everything else was pretty much okay with me.

Well, hopefully the food aversions will pass soon. But for now it's sloppy Joe's and Bush's baked beans for dinner tonight. At least making dinner is easier now that I am using more canned food.