Cherished - OK, night time snack ideas:
*A glass of milk was good (and comes in handy later on when the heartburn/reflux hits )
*Oatmeal bikkies were great because I could have them right next to the bed and didn't have to move if I was feeling nauseous.
*Yep, bananas! One of my faves.
*Handful of nuts/sultanas/dates/dried apricots.
*Toast.
*A piece of cheese.
Nothing terribly exciting, I know. I'm sure others have some more interesting suggestions.
Audax - Everyone is insisting on bringing food with them or taking me out because someone 'in my condition' can't cook! Lol, it's about the only thing I can do! Will definitely be doing that when bubby arrives and everyone comes for a sticky beak though.
Dr Tal - Your pumpkin soup is almost exactly the same as mine but I've never done carrots and I use whatever fresh herbs we have - chives, parsley, thyme, basil etc. Yum!
I also do a bacon and vege soup, which DH loves. I also love the vege version without the bacon, but the meat disguises the veges for anyone who needs that! I don't follow a recipe, just use whatever veges I have. You can do it on the stove or the slow cooker.
Bacon and Vege Soup
Prepare 1 or 2 bacon hocks by covering with water and boiling for about 1 hour to soften. Remove hocks and take meat off the bone, keeping some of the liquid to use in the soup (depends on the depth of flavour you want and how healthy you want to be - I let it cool and skim off the fat, then use about 1 cup!).
Chop a whole pile of veges - pumpkin, sweet potato and potato for the base, plus any combination of carrots, onions, turnip, swede, parsnip, celery, beans, peas, cauli, zuchini etc. Add lots of garlic (OK, as much or as little as you like!) and herbs.
Put the veges in a pot along with the bacon. Cover with vege stock (sometimes I dilute this too as we don't use salt and find it a bit too strong!) and simmer for around an hour, until the pumpkin, sweet potato and potato start to disintegrate and it looks like a chunky pumpkin soup!
Hello and healthy eating and exercising to everyone else. Off to find Kirsten and congratulate her on her BFP...
JLeigh - That's funny that you make your pumpkin soup almost the same way I make mine. I don't really follow a recipe either. I tend to just chuck in anything that I have hanging around that is orange or white LOL. I know I'll often put cauliflower in it too
(Kirsten can now be found in the Dec 16-31 BB group pretty sure her EDD is Dec 26)
Cherished - OOO healthy Pizza! I know what will be on the menu tonight! I LOVE pizza, I'm just usually too lazy and buy it at the shops, but it's really not that hard to make. I'll have to have a think about what I'm going to put on it. Maybe pumpkin and sweet potato with feta (we can eat feta if it's cooked right?? I'm pretty sure it's a 'cheese to avoid' but from memory they are okay if they are cooked??)
Audax - When you finally get your cookbook written, mark me down for one! I'm not a vegan or even a vegetarian, but I LOVE different recipes!
Ammaki - bummer about not having a blender. That having been said...if you boil the veggies until they are super soft you can mush them up with a potato masher (they don't get as fine as with a blender or processor, so you'll have some lumpy bits) as it basically tastes the same. You'll just need to make sure you press your garlic (or chop it really fine) and finely chop the onion, but most of the other stuff, including the carrot mashes fairly well that way.
AFM - I had to make a second batch of those oatmeal banana cookies last night. DH ate nearly all of them (he's such a guts). I hid these ones so I can dole them out to him a couple a day. Today I plan to make the White bean dip when I get home from work and feed it to DH with veggie sticks YUM!
HELLLOOOOOOOOOO what a great thread!!!! Right up my alley!
REUNION REUNION REUNION
Can you tell I'm a little excited to find you all again - it's like the old days but with babies in bellies! Whoooo hooooo to us!
I have one word for you all thermomix! I have one and it is the best invention on the planet when it comes to healthy eating, I make everything from scratch in it, my own bread, my own butter, my own 'ketchup' so I don't have to buy stuff with preservatives, I just make it. They are outrageously expensive, but we went on a payment plan, healthy eating is popular in my house My DS is the healthiest eater out of all the kids I've ever met and I put it down to good habits from birth.
Yipppeeeeeeeeeee, Eager to make those tasty banana oat treats now!!!!
Kirst - WOOHOOO so glad you've joined us all. Wow you make all your own sauces and stuff?? That's fantastic! I'm going to have to google these thermomix things. I've never heard of them. Might come in handy for making baby food as well. I've already been gathering a heap of recipes and plan on making all my own baby food (once bubs starts eating solids). I've always had issues with the amount of preservatives and artificial c$@p that's in the baby food you buy at the shops. Some of the recipes even sound yummy enough I might make them for myself!
Dr Tal: Yes I found you - thanks for the message, and thanks to everyone else for the congrats in the messages - I didn't know they were there till Dr Tal told me about them
In the thermomix, I grind my own spices and toast them, grate hard cheeses and chop anything you can think of...I make sorbet and icecream and it all takes almost no time at all. They were originally invented to make preservative free baby food, then people discovered so many more uses for them. All this talk of pumpkin soup has made me want to have it for dinner too, I think I might - thermomix makes soup too yum yum.
Sorry i have been MIA - we put our doggy down the other day so i been a bit sad!
Hello to all the new healthy mums this thread is becoming very informative and im loving it!
I am going grocery shopping today and im going to make those cookies that C1 suggested and........ im so making the Zucchini Noodle slice that eliselouise put up! that sound so yummy - definatly something i think i can eat!
And Holl i have been wanting a WII fit for awhile now - but i would have to agree that getting out and going for a walk or doing some exercise would prob be better not to mention cheaper!!!!
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(he's such a guts). I hid these ones so I can dole them out to him a couple a day. Today I plan to make the White bean dip when I get home from work and feed it to DH with veggie sticks 
YUM!
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