For breakfast, I have a half cup of oatmeal with 2 T flax meal, 4-5 pecans, about 1 t raisins (dried apricots would be better, they're higher in iron and [i think] lower in calories). I used to mix in some soy milk and sesame seeds (and felt REALLY hard-core
) but this is the one meal where I have started to separate out the calcium and try to back-load it towards the end of the day, away from iron. I usually have about 16 oz of milk, soy, tofu or yogurt smoothie around 9 pm or so, trying to get a lot of my calcium in when it is less likely to bind the iron. BUt it's all one big stream anyway, so who knows, you do what you can.
For the molasses, check the index of her book for "high iron syrup". She has you concentrate some herbs in water ( I can't remember which ones) and mix it with bs molasses. I then add about 2 T of this to my oatmeal. You could also just use plain bs molasses because it's so high in iron, but this is just a way to boost it a little more. Ideally, I would get some more protein in at breakfast too, but I find that I just can't eat that much in the morning, so I usually have a hard boiled egg or cup of yogurt around 10 am.
Have they advised you to eat liver? I just can't bear it, plus I'm not convinced that it's good for the baby, being such a filter for nastiness. I saw in my Dr. Sears book that a half cup of clams has almost as much iron as 3 oz of liver, so maybe have clam chowder a couple times a week?
