Hunger has been my downfall over the past couple of weeks. It has prevented me from staying in bed past 6am, even on the weekends, which I find to be highly annoying. I've thought about keeping snacks near the bed to coax my body into just one more hour of shut eye, but I'd have to invest in a mini fridge for our bedroom, because all I seem to want these days is dairy. My first breakfast usually consists of deliriously eating 1/2 - 3/4 cup of plain cottage cheese and a pint glass of milk and ice flavored with 3-4 oz. of coffee. And it can't just be any cottage cheese, it has to be Nancy's, which is tangy and thick and delicious. Put another way, all other cottage cheese is to mild cheddar as Nancy's is to Tillamook's Vintage White Extra Sharp. I am a total cottage cheese snob now and nothing is more soothing to my stomach than a Klondike ice cream sandwich, which are far superior to all other ice cream sandwiches.Even with my increased appetite, the mental food roadblocks from the dark days of morning sickness have still made me uneasy about certain foods, like bananas and chicken. This week I have really tried to incorporate more items into my menu, especially bananas. I've been craving fruit all week after eating a slice of cantaloupe with lunch and thinking it was the best thing I'd ever tasted. That left me feeling invincible and immediately jumped to bananas Tuesday morning. I think that was a little ambitious, given the flashback from the dark period when I would greet the day with my face planted firmly on the toilet seat. This morning (as suggested by Jesse) I decided to take baby steps and try small bites instead. It worked and was totally delicious!
Believe it or not, there is cereal under all of that fruit, but it's just an excuse to consume excessive amounts of milk in one sitting. Blueberries are my latest kick, as in oh-my-lord-if-I-do-not-have-blueberries-right-now-I-will-die. However, since the fresh ones are still $6 a pint, I've had to settle with frozen. I could really care less though, because I can pile them high and they make my cereal (which is always my second breakfast and before bed snack) icy and delicious. In the last two days I've nearly gone through a whole bag. I think the blueberries have just about eclipsed my love for Klondike ice cream sandwiches, but not quite.
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So glad to hear that your head-plant days are behind you! I discovered when we moved to NY that I'm a cottage cheese snob, of sorts, too--and have mourned the loss of one of my favorite breakfasts (cottage cheese with apple sauce and a pinch of salt--shockingly good) until just recently, when I finally found a brand that seems comparable to the Knudsen's of my youth. I would love to try yours!
1. When I was pregnant, I would lie in bed at night at think about how excited I was to eat a grapefruit in the morning.
2. Your blog is above NPR in my google reader, and I mistook their newest posting for yours. The title? "One Fish, Big Fish, Old Fish: Buttkiss." I hope you write that blog someday.
I discovered Nancy's cottage cheese last week! No way! It really does taste like nothing else. How do they do it?
Eric, I don't know if I can get It's-it ice cream sandwiches here in Portland. Besides, I think they're in an entirely different category of ice cream sandwiches.
Amanda, I don't know how Nancy's does it, but I'll never be able to eat the regular stuff again!
All the food you describe sounds so good!
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