So, I don't really know if anyone out there is actually reading this blog, but whatever...it's therapeutic, so here I am, writing!
If anyone knows me well, they know I don't do pregnancy well-especially first trimester. I battle with morning sickness 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And with the first baby, it lasted 6 months. This time around, we are only at 11 weeks, so we don't know if I will get off lucky, or I will be stuck with 6 months again.
One of the things I really have been missing, is cooking...and creating meals. It is a passion for me to prepare a tasty, healthy meal for my family. But with barely being able to smell anything that is cooking, let alone eat it, it's been drastically reduced.
Shortly after Alyssa was born I changed my eating habits. I tried a few things, from the eat-clean diet, to the raw diet. I felt great on any diet I was eating healthier, but especially the raw diet. However, I stopped shortly after a month because it was very difficult to keep up with, let alone try and provide my husband with a decent meal. While I do believe in "co-ercing " my family into eating healthy, I don't believe in forcing them to try diets or lifestyles that they have no interest in.
As I have been so sick, and barely able to eat anything, when I do eat, I usually reach for something not so healthy, as it is all my stomach seems to want. I have really noticed the lack of healthful options in this house, and though I know it is temporary and important for me to eat something rather than nothing at this point, it's really starting to depress me.
Before the morning sickness hit, I had been really getting good at monthly meal plans. After doing some studying of where I want our diet to go I have decided to have a plan for the minute I start feeling like I can get off the couch. I have decided I am going to make mostly home-made, healthy breakfasts consisting of oatmeals, healthy muffins and quick breads, etc. Lunch will mainly be a raw meal, ie: salad, vegetables, nuts, seeds, fruits., sprouted crackers and breads...etc, and dinner will be a cooked meal, with a side of vegetables, but with also some vegetables sneakily pureed into the food. I just purchased the book, 'Deceptively Delicious" written by Jessica Seinfield, which is a book with many healthy recipes with added pureed vegetables hidden because her kids wouldn't eat the stuff. Now, I know there is controversy on this book, tricking your kids and "teaching" them that vegetables are bad, but I think if you do it right it can help. If the only time you give your children (ahem...or husbands...lol) vegetable is in hidden, pureed form, then yes, I don't think it's a good idea. But if it's added to the menu, along with visible vegetables, (which is actually what Jessica Seinfeld suggests) as well as other meals with vegetables in it, then I think some added nutrition is a great idea for kids who may not get what they need. Although this is all new territory for me, as my daughter is just beginning to become picky, I have watched so many parents try and convince their child to eat their vegetables. You know what I see? I see that if they can get their kids to eat at least a couple bites, than they are satisfied because it can be such a battle. To me, that's when the added nutrition can help.
Anyways, so this is my plan...I hope it works. Not only do I have a daughter who is increasingly becoming picky, but my husband LOVES a good coke, a bowl of popcorn, and chips for dinner on a regular basis. I am anxiously awaiting the day I can get back in the kitchen and make sure my family is getting what they need...and me too, because face it, you just feel better when you eat better.
If anyone knows me well, they know I don't do pregnancy well-especially first trimester. I battle with morning sickness 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And with the first baby, it lasted 6 months. This time around, we are only at 11 weeks, so we don't know if I will get off lucky, or I will be stuck with 6 months again.
One of the things I really have been missing, is cooking...and creating meals. It is a passion for me to prepare a tasty, healthy meal for my family. But with barely being able to smell anything that is cooking, let alone eat it, it's been drastically reduced.
Shortly after Alyssa was born I changed my eating habits. I tried a few things, from the eat-clean diet, to the raw diet. I felt great on any diet I was eating healthier, but especially the raw diet. However, I stopped shortly after a month because it was very difficult to keep up with, let alone try and provide my husband with a decent meal. While I do believe in "co-ercing " my family into eating healthy, I don't believe in forcing them to try diets or lifestyles that they have no interest in.
As I have been so sick, and barely able to eat anything, when I do eat, I usually reach for something not so healthy, as it is all my stomach seems to want. I have really noticed the lack of healthful options in this house, and though I know it is temporary and important for me to eat something rather than nothing at this point, it's really starting to depress me.
Before the morning sickness hit, I had been really getting good at monthly meal plans. After doing some studying of where I want our diet to go I have decided to have a plan for the minute I start feeling like I can get off the couch. I have decided I am going to make mostly home-made, healthy breakfasts consisting of oatmeals, healthy muffins and quick breads, etc. Lunch will mainly be a raw meal, ie: salad, vegetables, nuts, seeds, fruits., sprouted crackers and breads...etc, and dinner will be a cooked meal, with a side of vegetables, but with also some vegetables sneakily pureed into the food. I just purchased the book, 'Deceptively Delicious" written by Jessica Seinfield, which is a book with many healthy recipes with added pureed vegetables hidden because her kids wouldn't eat the stuff. Now, I know there is controversy on this book, tricking your kids and "teaching" them that vegetables are bad, but I think if you do it right it can help. If the only time you give your children (ahem...or husbands...lol) vegetable is in hidden, pureed form, then yes, I don't think it's a good idea. But if it's added to the menu, along with visible vegetables, (which is actually what Jessica Seinfeld suggests) as well as other meals with vegetables in it, then I think some added nutrition is a great idea for kids who may not get what they need. Although this is all new territory for me, as my daughter is just beginning to become picky, I have watched so many parents try and convince their child to eat their vegetables. You know what I see? I see that if they can get their kids to eat at least a couple bites, than they are satisfied because it can be such a battle. To me, that's when the added nutrition can help.
Anyways, so this is my plan...I hope it works. Not only do I have a daughter who is increasingly becoming picky, but my husband LOVES a good coke, a bowl of popcorn, and chips for dinner on a regular basis. I am anxiously awaiting the day I can get back in the kitchen and make sure my family is getting what they need...and me too, because face it, you just feel better when you eat better.
1 comment:
Hey you -- I didn't know you even had a blog -- glad you sent it my way. There's a really good cook book called The SneakY Chef -- same idea as Seinfelds but better recipes. I love Breakfast cookies. If you want the recipe it's totally a whole grain soft cookie that is super good for you! Chat soon.
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