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I'm come to the very sad conclusion that as much as I hate to admit it, my little munchkin is a vegetarian. Now as you can probably imagine, this is causing all sorts of problems for me. My usual diet consisted of burgers, chicken strips and cold meat sandwiches. Now it consists of fruit, salad and the occasional war I choose to fight to get a little meat down.
Whom ever told the little one that cows, pigs, and chickens are friends and not food should be punished severely!! I guess this just goes to show that this little girl/guy is showing me early that I am no longer in charge when it comes to my life. S/he is!!
Now I don't get sick when I eat meat I just FEEL like I'm going to be ill. Knowing the signs from 4 or 5 weeks spent hanging over the toilet, I have NO desire to go back there again. So, if I choose to fight that battle I will eat one bite of something meaty and then eat something else for a minute or so. Then I can usually sneak in another bite.
This has caused all sorts of problems when deciding what to eat although I'm sure I'm healthier for it, well except for the fact that I now eat all of my fries and only half of my burger!! :-) Hopefully once this baby is born s/he does not continue the vegetarian lifestyle. I'm not sure we'd know what to feed him/her as hamburger helper is not just a meal in our house, it has often times been a staple food group!!
posted by Heather @ 9:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Heather I'm a vegetarian, but I just made the transition in January this year so I know what it's like to be on both sides of that fence! Try some meals like pasta with vegetables or tomato sauces, vegetarian lasagna, lots of salads, grilled cheese sandwiches with tomatoes, hummus and pita bread, soups, baked potatoes with all the fixins and corn on the cob, egg salad sandwiches, and if you like burgers you could try veggie burgers (I was pleasantly surprised that Yves brand veggie burgers are pretty tasty, as is their ground round for tacos) or portobello mushroom burgers. The biggest surprise for me was that I don't miss the meat because there's a great variety of meatless dishes out there. If you need more inspiration, pick up a vegetarian cooking magazine or two, it should fill you with ideas!
And I haven't been through it myself so can't speak from experience, but I hear that the meat aversion is a typical phase during pregnancy so I'm sure there's no worries that you will have a veggie baby.
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