When I find, make, create some sort of new food combination/meal etc especially if it's normally a gluten food I feel compelled to share. I also find it interesting to compare the cravings between this pregnancy & the last.
I had almost no real cravings out of the ordinary with Keegan except a craving for bacon, which I never really cared that much for. I also recently realized that the majority of what I wanted & liked was salty stuff. Of course I would never turn down icecream but that's just genetic.
This pregnancy it seems that the majority of it has been about sweets. I mentioned in April that I started craving eggs & ate more eggs in the first month or two than in my entire life because I don't like eggs! About halfway through the egg craving I started craving oranges. I'd sit & eat several oranges in one sitting, with some help from Keegan of course.
Pretty soon I couldn't stand eggs anymore, when I would try to eat them I'd start gagging after a bit & just have to stop. At that point I felt the urge to eat fish. My entire life the only fish I could ever stand to eat was Long John's Silver's. We're talking deep fried, crunchy batter & greasy perfection. Of course that's gluten, gluten, gluten, not to mention the grease alone is enough to kill you. So I was pretty stumped on what to do. Here enters my lifesaver, the magnificent It's Gluten Free store & their Ian's Breaded Fishsticks. I was eating 24 fishsticks pretty much every week, if not more than that. Pretty soon I figured I might as well buy a case, which I believe was 12 boxes. Unfortunately I have most of those boxes unopened in my freezer because wouldn't you know it. Right after I got it, the craving went away. It became like with the eggs, when I tried to eat the fish sticks I would start to gag & feel sick. After trying to force myself to eat them, even in different ways I just couldn't do it anymore.
Enter the sandwich.
I had been buying Udi's White Sandwich bread & generally just eating it as garlic bread because it was great toasted. Once the fish sticks were off my lunch menu I wasn't sure what I was going to eat so I decided to try a toasted sandwich. Pretty soon I was eating toasted ham, peppered salami & provolone cheese sandwiches all the time. I am now buying cases of bread & though there was some initial hesitation from my husband after what happened with the fish sticks I have always liked sandwiches lol. So I don't think he has to worry. Some weeks I'm going through a loaf & a half of bread like nothing so it's important I have another loaf sitting in the freezer waiting for me.
Nothing incredibly strange has popped up on the craving list since then. I have added a few more sandwiches to my menu, toasted bologna & cheese, toasted turkey & cheese, & toasted bbq'd chicken breast with peppered salami & provolone cheese. I have become quite the pro at making a wicked BBQ marinade & we cut the chicken breasts in half so they're thinner & make sure we have leftovers each time so I can make some sandwiches.
Besides sandwiches the things I eat the most now are chocolate, bananas & milk/icecream. I started craving lots of milk & milkshakes first & I had to put extra chocolate chips in the milkshakes. Then bananas suddenly popped up the day before I had my 1st leg cramp. Now I try to make sure I eat at least one banana every day to try & keep the leg cramps away. I've almost cramped up a few times but haven't officially had a leg cramp since that first day. My breakfast most mornings is now toast with nutella & banana slices on it with a big glass of cold milk. It satisfies all 3 cravings.
Nutella & Banana Toast
I've also eaten more banana splits than ever before, in fact tonight makes the 3rd banana split from Baskin Robbins that I've had this week & last night I had a homemade one lol. I only ever eat them when I'm pregnant but I think I've already had more this pregnancy than I did when I was pregnant with Keegan.
The amazing banana split
Being from an "okie" family it's kind of surprising that I've never been a really big "fried tater" fan but a month or so ago I found I couldn't get enough of them for dinner at my grandparents house. Thankfully my mother has a rather large garden out at their house & we're getting a steady supply of red potatoes from the garden. Unfortunately the last few weekends we've been pretty busy so we haven't been able to indulge for breakfast on fried taters & bacon but we managed to squeeze it in last Monday before my OB appointment. We even added toast with some homemade Plum Raspberry Jam that my Mom & Granny made.
One giant haul from the garden. My grandparents are picking the green beans off the plants
To indulge my chocolate & banana cravings I have actually made a few things over the last few months with some help. Unfortunately I don't think I have pictures of most of these things but I will try to get some recipes typed up at least to share with everyone. One of the things I made was from the www.glutenfreely.com site but the others have been gluten free adaptations to other recipes.
Stay tuned because they should be coming soon.
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