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[PhilsBabyMama]

Breakfast:

Banana, Greek yogurt, peanut butter on toast and a cup of coffee. (Half cup of coffee, then fill the cup with milk and a splash of creamer)

Snack: Half an avocado and a cheese stick.

Mother To Be Tea with a little honey.

Lunch: Green smoothie (green apple, carrots, spinach, ginger, liquid chlorophyll and water) and a Kashi Frozen meal. (Lemongrass Coconut Chicken with red quinoa and broccoli.)

I think we're doing tacos for dinner.

Edit: We had tacos and organic black beans with a bit of goat cheese on top.
Edited by PhilsBabyMama - 3/7/13 at 5:05pm

[Kate&Joey]

As usual, I have a question: 

A lot of you seem to be drinking RRL tea and/or pregnancy tea.  I bought some pregnancy tea a month or so ago and asked my doctor about it.  She immediately said she didn't want me drinking it until 36 weeks (due to the RRL).

Is she overreacting / being overly cautious? 

[nstewart]

Originally Posted by Kate&Joey 

As usual, I have a question: 

A lot of you seem to be drinking RRL tea and/or pregnancy tea.  I bought some pregnancy tea a month or so ago and asked my doctor about it.  She immediately said she didn't want me drinking it until 36 weeks (due to the RRL).

Is she overreacting / being overly cautious? 

I know my MW says that you can drink it at any point during pregnancy.

Her sheet on "suggested herbal and homeopathic remedies" says:

"Red Raspberry Leaf - as much as you like throughout pregnancy (1tsp of herb per cup of boiling water and one extra per pot.  Let steep for up to 20 minutes).  If you don't drink tea, capsules are available (2 in the AM and in the PM)."

She does not suggest EPO before 36 weeks though.

Well, as a nice surprise my mom cooked supper last night.  So I had yummy pork roast with mushrooms and gravy, some perogies, a homemade bun, and yummy roast veg (carrots, beets, potatoes, yams, garlic and onion).  She always cooks for an army too, which means I was sent home with at least enough left over for 2 suppers!

[Quinalla]

Honestly yes, seems overly cautious. If you are having preterm labor or something, maybe then you might avoid RRL tea, but otherwise seems very overly cautious. I know some folks do limit it to 1 cup until later in pregnancy, but I even think that is overly cautious. And yes, I've been drinking it nearly everyday myself too, 1-2 cups, didn't even mention it in my other post here.

[pastormama]

Originally Posted by Kate&Joey 

As usual, I have a question: 

A lot of you seem to be drinking RRL tea and/or pregnancy tea.  I bought some pregnancy tea a month or so ago and asked my doctor about it.  She immediately said she didn't want me drinking it until 36 weeks (due to the RRL).

Is she overreacting / being overly cautious? 

Yeah, my midwife with my first pregnancy was also really against RRL.  I'm not sure why.  If you have preterm labor, an insufficient cervix, etc, you should stay away, but I think otherwise it's great!  My midwives this time recommend nettles, alfalfa, and RRL throughout pregnancy.  I drink a TON.  1/4 C RRL and 1/2 C nettles, steeped, per day.  

I have noticed some pretty strong BH this pregnancy, as compared to last one where I didn't feel them at all.  But that could just be coincidental.  Plus, I feel like - the more early labor I can get out of the way before the big day, the better!  Let those BH do their work!

I, too, feel sort of lame posting my little food diaries.  But it actually gives me motivation to eat better on days when I stumble, thinking about how I want to post on the list with good ideas for others!

Today:

All day:  2 quarts pregnancy tea with RRL and nettles

Breakfast:  2 eggs mixed with a little milk and cheese and fried in butter, 1 slice homemade toast with butter and raspberry jam, strawberries, 1/2 C hawthorn berry tea

Snack:  Clementine

Lunch:  was at an assisted living facility doing visits and ate lunch there.  Was actually pretty tasty!  Lasagna, sweet potato fries, salad with iceberg mix, beets, cucumbers, carrot-raisin salad, little ranch dressing.  Handful of Haribo gummi colas (Haribo can do no wrong).

Snack:  celery sticks and half a cucumber with homemade ranch dip.

Supper:  will be an avgolemono (Greek lemon chicken soup made by poaching a chicken, picking the meat and adding back to stock, and adding sauteed onion and garlic, lemon juice and zest, and beaten eggs), green salad and vinaigrette, and possibly homemade cheese crackers.  1/2 C hawthorn berry tea.

May also have a chocolate malt for dessert!  Homemade chocolate ice cream, raw milk, malted milk powder.  Yum.  

[PhilsBabyMama]

From what I've read, it is safe to drink RRL tea throughout pregnancy and my midwife agrees. I also drank it throughout my first pregnancy. I had a quick, relatively easy labor that began at 41 weeks and a day. I don't think it will cause preterm labor on its own. My midwife said if it made me feel crampy at all to stop (obviously) but that traditionally it's been used for the duration of a woman's pregnancy and along with strengthening and toning your uterus, it also helps with morning sickness. I only drank a cup every day or every other day during my first trimester. Now in my third trimester, I'm drinking 2-4 cups a day and many sources recommend more than that. Some people might be more sensitive to it and I don't think people predisposed to miscarriage or preterm labor are "supposed" to drink it, but it's never bothered me.

[Loogiejane]

Late Breakfast/lunch: Steel cut oats topped w/ chopped medjool date, apple, pepitas, drizzle maple and 1C milk

Snack: one clemmie

Lunch: Mince meat and cheese australian meat pie

snack: Handful pita chips, 2 bites homemade challah

Dinner: Bowl vegetable lentil soup. Arugula salad w/red pepper, carrots, dried cranberries, goat cheese, oilive oil+lemon

Dessert: Scoop ice cream

I too drink RRL tea mixed with nettles, spearmint and lemon balm. That combination was my midwife's suggestion. I make a pot and drink it throughout the day. Yum, I think I'll make some now!

[OtherMother]

Originally Posted by Kate&Joey 

As usual, I have a question: 

A lot of you seem to be drinking RRL tea and/or pregnancy tea.  I bought some pregnancy tea a month or so ago and asked my doctor about it.  She immediately said she didn't want me drinking it until 36 weeks (due to the RRL).

Is she overreacting / being overly cautious? 

Yeah, this seems weird to me too. I've never really seen or heard anything cautioning against it. I drink at least one cup per day, plus one cup nettles, and one cup a combination tea which includes RRL. I've heard people recommend much more.

So, today I felt way off kilter. I think it's because of my brownie sundae last night. I'm not used to eating that much sugar/processed foods, plus I stayed up a bit late to watch a movie with DP. Today I was just super exhausted, had to lay down for a bit midday, and just didn't feel as balanced as I have with eating. Sometimes if I get 'off track' it takes me a few days and a whole lot of calories to get back on track. Hoping that's not the case here, so trying to be sensitive to myself ...

Today's eats:

Breakfast: grapefruit, nettle tea with raw honey and lemon

"Snack": green protein smoothie (peanut butter, soymilk, banana, kale, 1/2 scoop chocolate whey protein)

Lunch: hummus and carrots, 1/2 a grilled cheese (one slice whole wheat bread/ one slice lowfat muenster cheese, earth balance butter), small bowl organic low sodium tomato soup, peanut butter 'pudding' (peanut butter, sunflower seeds, honey, organic dk choco chips)

Snack: cup of soymilk, 5 dried apricots, 4 c-s energy chunks, 1 fig

Dinner: hummus and carrots, 3 homemade veggie burgs (millet, sweet potato, tempeh, onion, garlic, mushrooms, tamari, cooked in earth balance butter) on spring mix w/ french vinegarette and a sprinkling of nutritional yeast

Aaaaand I am seriously considering another warm brownie sundae later. Because there's still stuff for it in the house. Damnit.

[pastormama]

Today:

Just water all day - ran out of my herbs and need to go to the hfs this afternoon!

Breakfast: smoothie with strawberries, frozen banana, yogurt, milk. Coffee with milk.

Big snack: carrot and celery sticks and homemade crackers with yogurt-herb dip, clementine, graham cracker.

Late lunch: lemon chicken soup, fresh warm honey-wheat bread with butter.

I think we will do dinner and a movie tonight - thanks in-laws for babysitting!! Maybe a big burger or some (cooked) sushi? Chinese?

[OtherMother]

We visited family this weekend, and I stayed up far too late Friday night, so things got wacky with my diet. I tried my best to get back to normal on Sunday, but today we were home, and it felt much better. It's hard to eat well when I travel without packing my whole kitchen  :/

Sunday's eats:

Breakfast: Nettle tea with 1% milk, 1 grapefruit and 1 orange, 1/4 cup walnuts

Lunch: Protein shake (1/2 scoop whey protein with 1% milk), med Chai Tea from DD, 1/2 a cheese danish from DD

Snack: Turkey sandwich (on whole grain bread, with mayo and mustard, lettuce, and Kerrygold cheese) and handful pita chips

Dinner: small bowl linguine with pasta sauce

Monday's eats:

Breakfast: Green protein smoothie (1/2 scoop whey protein, 1 cup soymilk, 2 tbsp peanut butter, 3 collard leaves, 1/2 frozen banana, 1/2 sweet potato without skin)

Snack: Organic 'greens & dark chocolate' bar

Lunch: Salad with tempeh, mushrooms, onion, pumpkin seeds, nutritional yeast, a little bit of french vinegarette, and hot sauce

Snack: Tea with soymilk, 5 small dried apricots

Dinner: Brown rice with purple cabbage and sliced Kerrygold cheese on top

Dessert: Good-sized handful raisins and pumpkin seeds, plus a slice of Ezekial toast with a smidge of coconut oil

[CoBabyMaker]

My weekend was a traveling weekend too.  Not the best but oh well.  It was delicious.  We made a banana cream pie at my Aunt's but used used coconut sugar in the pudding part so it was like a caramel banana cream pie.  Oh goodness, to die for.

B: greek yogurt with berries and chia seeds

Snack: chickpeas, goat cheese and a couple bites of tangerine, iced decaf almond milk latte

L: sprouted bread with cream cheese and a big bowl of mushrooms, kale, garlic and onion

Snack: another latte.  It just sounded so good.  I may or may not have put whipped cream on it.  I may or may not have had some chocolate chips with it.

D: grilled mustard apricot chicken,  roasted broccoli and baked sweet potato

[OtherMother]

Originally Posted by CoBabyMaker 

My weekend was a traveling weekend too.  Not the best but oh well.  It was delicious.  We made a banana cream pie at my Aunt's but used used coconut sugar in the pudding part so it was like a caramel banana cream pie.  Oh goodness, to die for.

B: greek yogurt with berries and chia seeds

Snack: chickpeas, goat cheese and a couple bites of tangerine, iced decaf almond milk latte

L: sprouted bread with cream cheese and a big bowl of mushrooms, kale, garlic and onion

Snack: another latte.  It just sounded so good.  I may or may not have put whipped cream on it.  I may or may not have had some chocolate chips with it.

D: grilled mustard apricot chicken,  roasted broccoli and baked sweet potato

YUM! I think we all eat so well normally, we can afford some weekend splurges. Keeps the brain sane, I always say   ;)

[pastormama]

Originally Posted by OtherMother 

YUM! I think we all eat so well normally, we can afford some weekend splurges. Keeps the brain sane, I always say   ;)

Agree!  As long as I don't feel wretchedly awful after indulging, I'm all for the occasional "let it go" weekend.

Things have been even more boring than usual around here.  

All day:  2 quarts pregnancy tea with nettles and rrl

Breakfast:  big smoothie with frozen banana, frozen mango, strawberries, yogurt, milk.  Slice of homemade toast with butter and raspberry jam.  Coffee with milk.

Snack:  Clementine.  Krispy Kreme chocolate-glazed donut (damn the man who brings these into my office every Tuesday!).

Lunch:  Two carrots and some celery with yogurt-herb dip.  Another slice of homemade toast with peanut butter.

Supper:  Still deciding.  Have leftover poached chicken meat in the fridge I need to use, and some arugula.  What should I make?  I'm tempted to do a pasta, but I realllly don't need that many more carbs today!

[berrymama]

I finally got a food processor and have been making lots of fun new things. Why did I not get one sooner?!

Breakfast - Smoothie (soy milk, greek yogurt, frozen fruit medly- peaches, cherries, banana, hemp seeds, and lots of spinach)

Snack - homemade flourless bread (filled with flax seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds) with a bit of raspberry jam.

Pre-lunch juice - (carrots, beet, cucumber, lime, ginger, parsley, green apple, celery) --I am adding a picture of my DS (3 yrs old) after drinking this...he always begs some of my juice off of me.

Lunch - sprouted grain wrap with olive hummus, sprouts, 1/2 avocado, cheese, olive oil/vinegar

Dinner - Homemade pizza - going to try making cauliflower crust. Has anyone tried this?

[nstewart]

I'm loving the smoothies lately! 

This morning was strawberry, bananna, pinapple, mango, and spinich with coconut milk and water to thin it out.  The easiest way I've found so far to get spinich into my 30 month old!  I make enough for a couple days so it's great to be able to just pour it into a to-go mug for breakfast if I'm running behind.

PM, that sounds like a good start to a yummy pannini (with maybe some pesto, roasted red peppers, and cheese?) but maybe not what you are after if you don't want the carbs!  You could use the same ingredients but minus the bread and maybe plus olives or something and have a nice salad...

[CoBabyMaker]

Homemade pizza - going to try making cauliflower crust. Has anyone tried this?

I actually really liked it and I am NOT a cauliflower fan.  It's a good crust though!

[Loogiejane]

Originally Posted by pastormama 

Supper:  Still deciding.  Have leftover poached chicken meat in the fridge I need to use, and some arugula.  What should I make?  I'm tempted to do a pasta, but I realllly don't need that many more carbs today!

Stuffed peppers with chicken, rice, cheddar, cilantro mixture and arugula salad on the side. 

[OtherMother]

Originally Posted by berrymama 

I finally got a food processor and have been making lots of fun new things. Why did I not get one sooner?!

Breakfast - Smoothie (soy milk, greek yogurt, frozen fruit medly- peaches, cherries, banana, hemp seeds, and lots of spinach)

Snack - homemade flourless bread (filled with flax seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds) with a bit of raspberry jam.

Pre-lunch juice - (carrots, beet, cucumber, lime, ginger, parsley, green apple, celery) --I am adding a picture of my DS (3 yrs old) after drinking this...he always begs some of my juice off of me.

Lunch - sprouted grain wrap with olive hummus, sprouts, 1/2 avocado, cheese, olive oil/vinegar

Dinner - Homemade pizza - going to try making cauliflower crust. Has anyone tried this?

Can you come cook for me please?!?!?! I LOVE your 'menu' but it's too much 'work' for me right now.

Feeling uninspired in the kitchen. Being tired is the culprit, it's always hard for me to eat well when I'm tired!!

But I'm going to catch up starting tonight, so maybe I'll be able to make something new and fun soon.

Today's eats ...

Breakfast: Green Protein Smoothie (peanut butter, soymilk, lots of organic kale, 1/2 a scoop of whey protein, 1 frozen nanner, some RRL tea)   It came out particularly good this morning!

Snack: 5 small dried organic apricots, 2 cacao-goji energy chunks 

Lunch: Pumpernickel bagel topped with chive cream cheese (my aunt brought over from what is supposedly the best bagel place in Brookline) and sweet potato, sprinkled with pumpkin seeds

Dinner: Green Protein Smoothie (same as above) plus 2 cacao-goji chunks and a fig.

Planning on being done for the day and going to bed. Am going to look over this thread tomorrow for new meal ideas.

[CoBabyMaker]

I hadn't made these lentils in a while and decided to make them tonight.  MMmmmmmm, they are so so good.  http://www.joanne-eatswellwithothers.com/2011/04/lentil-mango-picadillo.html

[pastormama]

Well after all your great suggestions I punted and we went for Mexican. Dh and I split chicken and beef fajitas for one. That's our favorite budget trick - it's always soooo much food for half the cost.

BUT! I have big plans for tomorrow involving chicken tortilla soup and white beans with arugula.