Are you impressed with how early I’m posting this? Okay, not early in the day..but check it out: There are meals planned for today. The day after grocery shopping. In fact, I actually had the meal plan finished before we started shopping. No, the world isn’t ending, I just don’t like guessing on what to buy and then trying to match meals to that. Not fun.
Anyway, this meal plan is supposed to focus on iron. I can’t quite remember when we do the dreaded finger-stick to test iron levels, but I know it’s coming up soon. If not at the prenatal I’ve got scheduled for 22 weeks, it will likely be at the next one. So far, I’m two for two on low iron levels. Considering that my blood work at 12 weeks showed me at 13.5 (you wanna be above 12) and my blood volume has since expanded considerably, I’m probably on the low side.
I’ll go into more detail on iron later this week, but some things I’ll be sure to get plenty of are greens and chlorophyll supplements, nettle tea, grape juice (really!), beans, molasses (sneakin’ it in, sneakin’ it in) and oats.
So, here ’tis, taking us all the way to 5.5 mos:
Friday
Peanut Butter Snack
Veggie Breakfast Burritos
Easy Bean Dip, Guacamole & chips
Fajitas
Saturday
Pancakes
Peanut Butter-Banana Shake
Bean-Nut Loaf & Oven Fries
Sunday
English Muffin Melts
Tortilla Soup
Smoothies
Leftovers
Monday
Granola cereal
Everything Cookies
Bean Salad Sandwiches
Fruit
Kasha, Potato, Carrot Casserole
Tuesday
Savory Rice & Bean Porridge
Smoothies
Baked Potato Lunch
Nuts & seeds
Squash & White Bean Soup
Wednesday
Bagel/English Muffin Melts
Bean Salad & pita chips
Easy Pasta Lunch
Fruit & Nut Butter
Potluck (Coconut Brownies!)
Thursday
Crunchy Buckwheat Cereal
Blueberry Muffins
Veggie Wrap
Trail Mix
Tofu Pot Pie
Friday
Peanut Butter Snack
Bean & Avocado Tortillas
Fruit
Tacos
(Saturday & Sunday- out of town)
Monday
Brown Rice & Miso
Peanut Butter Snack
Veggie Wrap
Crackers & Easy Bean Dip
Ginger Lentil Soup
Tuesday
Savory Bean Mash & Raw Seed Wafers
Smoothies
Almond Butter-Orange Sandwiches
Nuts & seeds
Garbanzo Beans & Pasta with Tomato-Basil Sauce
Wednesday
Soaked Oatmeal
Oat-Nut Scones
Bean Quesadilla
Fruit
Tamale Pie
Thursday
Granola
English Muffins
Quick Nutritional Yeast Rice
Smoothies
Grocery shopping!
