Pregnancy is a great thing- it's a time of change, growing, anticipation, and endless thoughts about how wonderful your children are going to be. However, it's also a time when you feel so sick you can't peel yourself off of the couch, eat like crazy, throw up, deal with heart burn, take naps multiple times a day, are crabby, and sore. You also have to buy new clothes every couple of weeks because you grow so fast that nothing fits. Well, I'm expecting twins, so I have experienced double these wonderful pregnancy symptoms. However, I've never been happier, so it's worth it.
Now, the reason I haven't blogged in a long time (other than not being able to get off the couch in the past 14 weeks). Food tastes strange to me. Fresh vegetables that I used to crave taste strong and rotten, chocolate tastes metallic, the smell of basil makes me queasy, baked goods are too rich, ice cream is beyond nasty, and roast chicken smells horrible and tastes worse. There are many more foods I can't stand now, but I won't type it all out. In short, all foods that I was crazy about before pregnancy I hate now.
My taste buds are childish now. I love honey nut cheerios, bagels (white only please!) with cream cheese, string cheese, baked potatoes, pizza (double the turkey pepperoni!), triscuits, granola bars, applesauce, twinkies, oreos, steak, and hamburgers. I never ate these foods before pregnancy- especially red meat. I could eat steak and burgers 3 times a day now. I never dreamed of buying twinkies and oreos (gross!), but they taste fabulous now. Go figure....
So, my cooking is limited to barbecuing steak and hamburgers, with a baked potato (sour cream and broccoli on top), followed by oreos dipped in milk. In a way, it's kind of nice to take a break from cooking, but I miss it. I'll be on a mission to find recipes that match my childish and bland taste buds, but for now, it's snack time!
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