Picture
update to start
This
was last week’s photo; delinquent in posting.
And
for this week’s photo. You can sort of
see the tummy starting.
How
have I been feeling, exhausted and morning sickness is kicking up a notch. Still no actual sickness (knock on wood), but
the nausea is getting worse, ginger helping, mint herbal tea helping, and the
good old standby saltine crackers, god’s gift to pregnant women. The thought of some food smells just make my
green. Like this morning we were
prepping a slow cooker meal and the thought of onion smell was turning me
green, however actually cutting them up I did ok.
As
far as weight, I was up as of Friday, but then I did a mid week weigh in,
unofficially, and was down again. The
ticker at the top is no correct however.
I have no longer lost 13 pounds, right now closer to 8. I may remove it soon, as it is discouraging
to know it isn’t true. Plus as I gain
more it will be worse.
For
the May long weekend we did a test run in our recently purchased (used)
RV. Before doing a real run we wanted to
make sure we had everything and nothing was going to spring a leak. We camped with Deb’s mom. (She took one night at home to be able to
make it to Church the next day.) Overall
it was a nice and relaxing weekend. Good
thing too, I had zero energy to get anything done.
Last
night we made one of the recipes from the year book. It almost didn’t make the get made list, as I
wasn’t feeling it with being more and more nauseous. Alas I’m really glad we did make it. I am going to share the recipe, as I highly
recommend it. This is how we did it, a
few modifications from the original.
Pea
Pesto Pasta
Aprox
3-4 servings of pasta - We used six handfuls of we used rotini. Cook to preferred texture.
2
cups of frozen peas, thawed, put through mini ninja to chop up/smoosh
slightly. We decided they should be
cooked 1-2 minutes in the microwave.
Boil
a can of rinsed Fava beans for 3-4 minutes (We added the rinsed beans directly
and decided it would be better warm.)
With
the peas in the food processor, add about ¼ cup of olive oil, a couple spoonfuls
of chopped garlic and mix again.
Add
the pea mixture to the cooked/drained pasta and stir.
In
the food processor add a little over ½ cup of blanched almonds and cut them up
(This adds a nice crunch to the meal). Add
to the pasta pea mixture.
Add
the cooked fava beans to the mix
Add ¾
cup of parmesan to the mix.
Stir
together and serve. This is a quick meal
that is pretty good on protein by itself and pretty good. We did serve with chicken breast strips
though. For a little extra flavour as
people desire we had a little Sweet Chili sauce on the side which went well. This makes about 6 meals at about 488
calories each. (Not including the sauce
or chicken)
It
looks like I have an ADD post today, sorry for the multi topic with no
consistency. Pregnancy brain kicking in
I guess.
Yay! I have been waiting for the update :) Great pics! :) Not that I have ever been pregnant :) but I was told that the anti-nausea wrist bands work well too :) hmmm I seem to be very smiley today...... :)
ReplyDeleteI can tell the baby is growing. It's slight in the pic, but it's there!! :) Rhonda liked the Preggie Pops for nausea. Thankfully for her, she never actually threw up. Just a queasy tummy. Hoping that's the most you get too. She had zero cravings as well, so all in all, her pregnancy was a breeze. She said she'd wish it on anyone. :) Yay for 8 weeks!! Every day is a huge milestone. Cherish every single moment.
ReplyDeleteawwe! you look great girl! I know ginger and peppermint tea helped me out a lot! Happy 8 weeks!
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