Wednesday, March 4, 2015

What I Ate Wednesday: Pregnancy Edition

It's been awhile since I've done a WIAW post, and I thought it would be fun to look back on what my pregnant self was eating/craving. As you can see for yourself, I eat a LOT when I'm pregnant. I included two days worth of food. The first is a normal weekday, and the second  is one of our weekend days in San Diego. I took these photos over a week ago, back when I still had enough room in my stomach to eat big meals. Lately I've been splitting my meals in half, and eating twice as often, but I think I'm still eating roughly the same amount. As you can see I eat a lot more fruits and veggies on a normal day, and a lot more french fries and dessert on the weekend. Too bad everyday can't be the weekend ;)

Day 1:

Breakfast (8ish): 1 packet of plain oatmeal mixed with 1 packet strawberries and cream oatmeal. This is definitely a weird pregnancy craving for me because I've never before in my life eaten strawberries and cream oatmeal, but now I'm slightly addicted. 2 pieces of toast, 2 eggs and half a grapefruit (another pregnancy craving). Ive been eating this exact breakfast for about 3 weeks now. This is double what I'd eat pre-pregnancy, but I wind up shaky hungry by 11 if I eat less. 

Lunch (noon-ish): Nachos are on constant lunch rotation over here. These are just corn chips, vegetarian refried beans, light mozzarella, and taco sauce, along with an apple.

Snack 1 (3ish): post-workout I ate a small bowl of Trader Joe's multi-grain O's with a banana and unsweetened almond milk.

Snack 2 (5ish): We don't eat dinner till 7, and I can't last that long without a second snack. This is the same green smoothie from this post that Ez and I have been drinking almost daily. 

Dinner (7ish): Zucchini "noodles" topped with lentil tomato sauce and light mozzarella. Don't mind the watery-ness. Pregnant lady was too hungry to let the noodles drain properly. We ate this with mushroom cream cheese pinwheels, which were delicious, but I forgot to get a picture. 

Dessert: (8:30) Post after-dinner walk we had strawberry shortcake using cake mix soda cupcakes - which are basically just a can of soda and a box of cake mix (I used yellow cake + diet sprite). Normally we just use those dessert cups that taste like twinkies, but the store was out and I happened to have cake mix and soda already. This was a pinterest creation (of course!) and they actually turned out really good. Here are a bunch more yummy combos I want to try. We topped the cupcakes with strawberries and lots of cool whip. Yum.

Day 2:

Since I didn't take pictures of everything I ate over the weekend, this is a mish mash of pictures taken over two days to give an idea of a sample weekend day.

Breakfast: 2 fried egg sandwich on wheat bread with herb cream cheese. Ez and I split the fruit.

Post-breakfast dessert: We split these bite-size cakes. So delicious!

Lunch (at the zoo): Veggie burgers and fries followed by a soft serve cone that Joe and I split. Too bad for Ez that he slept through it.

Dinner: Fish sandwiches and Joe and I split the fries/onion rings. We also ate a few bites of fudge afterward, but it was disgustingly sweet and we threw it away. That's saying a lot, coming from me. 

So there you have it! I think my pregnancy cravings are pretty basic: eggs, fruit, french fries, sweets, and nachos. Got all my bases covered ;)

15 comments:

  1. Now I want ice cream, nachos, anything with cream cheese, fries, and bananas in cereal. You'd think I'd have had nutty pregnancy cravings when I was pregnant, but no. I'm just always craving food I see. I did crave twizzlers though when pregnant.

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  2. All of this looks/sounds delicious! Perfect mix of healthy stuff and a couple treats. I might have to try the Trader Joe's cereal one of these days... =)

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  3. I want to eat all the things! What is it about a waffle cone that makes ice cream so much better?!

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    1. Waffle cones even smell good! They definitely give basic chocolate or vanilla flavors an upgrade :)

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  4. Reading about all of this delicious food makes me hungry! Might be time for a snack.... :) We are big Trader Joe's fans. We devour their fried rice and recent had their halibut - it was very tasty!

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  5. I thought it was funny when you talked about the oatmeal, I think it's so interesting how pregnancy makes you crave things you've never even had before!

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    1. Yeah, all it takes is a picture, or a passing reference, and suddenly I'll fixate on a random food. So weird!

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  6. Yummy looking dishes---I'd have to have two snack if we waited till 7 for dinner too!! I love that you have a walk in before desser! I'll have to give that a try.

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    1. It depends on the weather, but it's nice to do an after dinner walk as a family. It gives Ez one more chance before bed to burn off some energy, and walking is pretty much my main form of exercise right now, so I try to squeeze it in whenever I can.

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  7. Mmmmm fish sandwiches and strawberry shortcake! Oh and we already know I'm a huge fan of nachos over here!

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  8. How have I not heard of cake mix soda cupcakes? We love strawberry shortcake over here. I think I'll have to try it!

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  9. I'm so hungry reading this post!!! And now I want to try strawberries and cream oatmeal!!

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  10. You have some really good eats. I see quite a few things I am craving on this list.

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    1. Thanks! Looking back on this post makes me hungry too ;)

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  11. Your meals look so yummy! I can't believe you can still work out!! That is awesome! I know I threw in the towel by 20 weeks. :)

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