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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I second another PP's salad recommendation. Takes two seconds to throw together, especially if you buy beans or pre-cooked chicken breast. Eggs are easy too -- we do scrambled eggs for dinner at least once a week. Just scramble them up with whatever you please (or plain, if that is your preference) -- I do sun-dried tomatoes, pecorino cheese, red pepper flakes and sometimes fennel seed. If you are not a huge eater, and don't get markedly more hungry during pregnancy, there is no need to eat a giant meal. How about just a whole sweet potato nuked in the microwave, with some butter? That is pretty filling if you don't have a huge appetite, and could not be easier. Healthy, too. [b](I believe in a reasonable amount of fat in the diet.) Sometimes I just slice up a tomato, douse it in olive oil, and accompany with a plate of cooked kale. Opinions vary, but my personal philosophy is to look at nutrition not at each meal, but over the course of a day or even a week. [/b]So if I have nothing but vegetables for dinner, that is fine, so long as I eat some protein the next day. If I have eggs for dinner, I try to go heavier on the veggies the next day. Etc.

Also, you can only do what you can. I actually like cooking but I was too exhausted in my first trimester and couldn't stand the smell of raw anything. But it was ok if someone else cooked it. So I did a lot of take-out from the Whole Foods salad bar. Not as healthy as making it myself but better than relying on McDonalds or something. At least I was still getting all the food groups in.[/quote]

I couldn't agree more with the bolded stuff above. I LOVE avocados and probably lived on them for a couple of weeks when nothing else sounded good. My appetite and all is back to normal now, but when I just can't get excited about anything else, my go to is cutting up an avocado and enjoying that . . . maybe mixed with cut up tomato and lime juice if I'm feeling crazy :)[/quote]

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