Healthy Pregnancy

[Cherished]

OMG good news all round!!!!! A BFP for Kristen too YAY.... Yes tell her about this thread It does feel like a reunion doesn't it!

So glad you found us to Ammakmi, JLeigh & Dr.Tal ohhhh YAY I just knew I would have friends to share this thread with

I have had everyone wanting to come over and visit or meet up for lunch 'before bubby arrives' so have lots of morning/afternoon teas and lunches, which make it hard (but jam and cream filled lamingtons don't count as unhealthy, do they???!!!! Cherished???!!!)

shhhhhh You're making me look bad <insert smack on the bum icon here> I didn't have any friends in this thread for support when I bought us those

Some great food ideas in here ladies! Thanks so much for sharing.

I was going to make pumpkin soup for dinner too but I forgot to make some bread today so I don't want to have soup with out it.... Not sure what will be on the menu instead? Maybe healthy home made pizza on flat bread wraps... we are kinda celebrating today cause our only debt is our home loan

I've gone to pilates today and had acupuncture and tomorrow will be my weekly chiro adjustment cause yesterday and today I think I've had a bit of sciatica, it's not a usual problem of mine so I guess it's pregnancy related. It's not too bad now after all the movement but it's prompted me to look into a brace/support so I will research them on Wed, any suggestions of brands etc?

to all the other healthy pregnancy mummas who I haven't mentioned.

[Cherished]

Morning chickies

So I ended up making tom yum last night with a bit of rice to go with it and it was yummmmmy.

Q who is needing to eat when they wake up during the night? just last week I started needing a snack as I was waking up really hungry. If you do to what do you snack on? Last night was a banana and a few spoon fulls of yogurt. Any other good ideas?

[JLeigh29]

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...

[Dr. Tal]

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!

[Kirsten]

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!!!!

[Dr. Tal]

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!

[Kirsten]

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.

[Cupcake]

Morning chicklets!

No healthy practises here at the moment, am sick! Blurgh! Had yesterday off work to try and kick it but that seemed to FAIL!

[hj1981]

Goodmorning Healthy Mums!!!

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!!!!

[Dr. Tal]

HJ - Very sorry to hear about your dog That is never an easy decision to make.

I have a Wii (it was given to me for Christmas) I haven't gotten the fit yet though. I do play sports and resort from time to time though. It's definitely not the same as actually getting out and doing exercise but you also get out of it what you put in. You can either really get into it and do full movement and really work yourself (and you can, both DH and I have been sore for days after fencing or rowing or something like that) or you can just make small wrist movements and not work youself so much.

Ammaki - Sorry to hear you are sick. That's no fun at the best of times and would be absolutely miserable when you are pregnant. Make sure you continue to eat healthy (lots of fruits with vitamin C and cook with lots of garlic) and hopefully you'll get over it quickly I reckon the thin veggie soup (I think it's the first recipe that Audax gave us) would be a really good sick 'comfort' food.

Kirst - I think the sorbet and icecream sold me on the thermomix. I've had my mouth watering all last night and this morning thinking of all the different sorbet types I can make (lemon, watermelon, mango, passionfruit) YUM! (wish there was a mouth watering icon to put here )

AFM - Unfortunately I never got around to making my pizza last night We had a few issues with our pigs (in that the piglets got out and were running around everywhere and mumma pig was going nuts!) So it was about 8 before I even thought about making dinner, so I just warmed up the left over pumpkin soup and made some garlic and cheese whole grain bread to go with it.

[JLeigh29]

Hmmm - so many yummy food ideas, so little time!

hj - Sorry to hear about your dog. I plan on getting out for a walk each day when Bosley arrives - just managing the 10 steps to the mailbox atm though! We have a Wii Fit too (DH begged and begged and I refused and refused and one day he just came home with it!). I haven't used it yet though...

Ammaki - Get well soon vibes coming your way...

Dr Tal - Now I can't decide whether to make pumpkin soup or mushroom soup for lunch! Am leaning towards mushroom soup because I had pumpkin and bacon yesterday! With garlic soy and linseed bread, mmmm! I am keen to try 'baby led solids' when Bosley starts eating (he has to arrive first!) but also bought a new blender at Christmas so I can make my own purees if I decide to go down that road. I don't like the idea of processed baby foods either - we're trying really hard to eat healthily now, it seems a shame to spoil it by feeding our kids tinned stuff when they start to eat!

Kirsten - I am hoping to rival you in the 'best-eating child' stakes when Bosley arrives! It is so great to hear from you in a non-ttc environment and I've been stalking your belly buddies thread! Go December 26th!

Cherished - Did you mention you make your own bread? We used to have a bread maker and it was heaps cool, but time-consuming. Oh, and I love your banana-oatmeal cookies; DH wasn't too keen though, which just means more for me!

AFM - Any ideas for a non-unhealthy sweet baking idea to make for friends who are coming for morning tea on Saturday?

[Cupcake]

JL i found a recipe for banana mini muffins; im not sure how healthy/ unhealthy they are tho


Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp bi-carbonate soda
• 3/4 cup banana, mashed
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 3/4 cup milk

Icing:

• 250g cream cheese
• 4 tbsp icing mixture
• 2 tsp finely grated lemon rind

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C.
Line a 24 cup mini muffin pan with patty pans.
Sift flour and bi-carb into a bowl and add brown sugar. Set aside.
In another bowl lightly beat the egg and add milk, vegetable oil and banana and stir.
Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined.
Spoon into muffin pans and bake for 10-12 mins.
To make the icing, warm the cream cheese in the microwave for one minute and add lemon zest and sifted icing mixture.
Beat with electric mixer for 2 mins.
Transfer into a piping bag immediately and pipe onto cooled muffins.

It was emailed to me from a pregnancy website that promotes healthy eating?

[Kirsten]

JLeigh: so many great recipes on bestrecipes website, one of my favorites on there and so easy is lemon and yoghurt cake!!!! YUM!!! although I only put in half the sugar! It is good to be in a non-ttc environment thanks for the stalking, makes me feel special to be stalked.

Dr Tal: The mango sorbet is out of this world! YUUUUUUMMMM I have made nectarine ice cream, vanilla ice cream, raspberry and coconut ice cream and chocolate ice cream! DELICIOUS. the ice cream is nicer than any ice cream you can buy. I have some cream in the fridge, might make some tomorrow....mmmm ICE CREAM!

hj how awful to have to put down your dog

Ammaki: hope you are feeling better today!

I had a delicious dinner tonight, Warm quinoa, brown rice and vegie salad, it was DS's idea - he loves it.

[hj1981]

Morning Healthy Mums

Thanks all for your thoughts and hugs over the loss of our doggy! still very sad but getting by!


Anyways i tried the sugerless cookies yesterday - maybe i did something wrong but they did not taste the best

And for dinner last night we had the Zucchini noodle slice and that was DELICIOUS!! very nice will be having it again for sure!

Have decided one night a week is going to be vego night! if i did anymore than that DH might divorce me!

[Dr. Tal]

HJ - When I mentioned a vego night to DH he wasn't at all impressed. But I didn't tell him what night it was going to be. The first one I did a spag bol type recipe, but used lenils and bulgur (not sure if that is even close to being spelled correctly) instead of mince. Made sure that I had heaps of chunky vegetables in it (capsicum, chunky tomato bits, mushrooms) and lots and lots of herbs basil, oregano, thyme, so that it was tasty and chunky. He didn't even know there was no mince in it till I told him when he'd finished eating it!

I put 1/4cup of maple syrup in my banana oat cookies (I have a bit of a sweet tooth and not sure they'd have gone down so well sweetenerless) so maybe that was the difference when I made them.

Kirst - Sounds like your DS likes his healthy food as much as you do! That's fantastic!

Ammaki - those muffins sound pretty yummy.

JLeigh - Unfortunately all my sweet recipes are anything but healthy. That having been said I reckon Cherished banana oat cookies with 1/4cup of honey or maple syrup might fit.

[Cherished]

morning my lovlies What's this talk about ice cream!!! YUM I will haveto check that out

Dr.Tal and HJ I have to giggle at your dh's as mine is a vego I think one night a week vego for you will be great, good on you!

I have to go.... I'm at work... bakc later for persies and my goals for the weekend

[JLeigh29]

Well, I've just eaten 2 scones with jam and cream for morning tea and am about to back up to go out to lunch with my parents and grandfather, so not much healthy eating going on for me atm!

I too have decided that one night a week will be vego (and yep, any more and DH would attack!). Last night I did sweet potato and garlic soup with my soy and linseed garlic bread - I didn't get my soup for lunch so I needed a fix! DH has taken the leftovers to work so it obviously passed his test! I added some extra light Philly cheese and it was soooo creamy!

Kirsten - The lemon and yoghurt cake sounds fantastic! I always halve the sugar in recipes too!

hj1981 - I added 2 tablespoons of brown sugar to the cookies (so I can't call them sugarless anymore either!). Maybe they just weren't to your taste.

Audax - I meant to say ta for your recipe ideas last time! You sound very talented.

Cherished - Yep, be thankful you don't have a DH who 'needs' meat in almost every meal. Actually, mine isn't bad at all - we have very small portions of meat, and he loves seafood and chicken, so we only end up eating meat 2 or 3 times a week.

Tonight is kangaroo roast - very high in protein and low in fat! Sorry vegos, but yummy!

[belfie]

hey had to duck back in for a quick update... my "healthy" has been awol. Copped gastro on Sun night - vomited ~30 times in ~12 hours and ended up in hossie on drip + zofran. Back at home & still recovering, have managed to get down a bowl of Audax's yummy soup but otherwise just crackers & toast for me atm. Am now coping with the secondary bit of gastro (the "other" end ) so hope to be back on the healthy wagon... erm.. maybe next week when I might be able to eat again properly

Have to say, what kinda karmic reward is gastro... the VERY day I decide to start being healthier!! (admittedly DS had it on Fri night so mebbe I should be so surprised - I just copped the PG special version!).

Great to see everyone else is going well & look forward to being back soon.