Things I Love

Cereal.  I eat mine in the morning and evening and always have almond milk, raisins and strawberries or bananas on it.

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Soup. The ultimate comfort food!  Sometimes I pray for a rainy day in SoCal, just so I can make some.  I'm kinda obsessed with Le Pain Quotidien's Gazpacho.  They always have it and they top it with juliennes of mango, avocado, radish and cucumber with a slice of lemon and a little dollop of pesto oil.  Its so good it almost makes me not miss cake.  Almost.

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Cake.  I've always just loved wedding cake.  White cake and white fluffy frosting.  The more confectioner's sugar and lard the better.  Its just good.

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Pancakes.  More cake please!  I'm really not the craziest sweet eater like I seem right now but I am a kid at heart and some mornings I need my pancakes.  Even a frozen waffle will do on weekdays but I heart my pancakes.

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Cheese.

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Yummy.

Prego Cravings

Ok so if you haven't figured it out from my profile pic already, I am pregnant.  Yup.  4 months deep.  It doesn't look like I have much of a belly here but it has felt like it since day one, when I couldn't fit into my jeans (!).  I have been living in leggings and long stretchy t-shirts.  heaven. 

Soooo I haven't had CRAVINGS necessarily, but I have been heavily inspired and had a great need to follow through on some food items.  For instance, I had teriyaki chicken marinating the other night, and all  the ingredients out to make coconut brown rice.  Then my cousin called and started telling me at length about how he's started throwing pizza dough and making these incredible pizzas on the grill.  Well, after that convo, I wanted nothing to do with teriyaki chicken.  I started chanting "Pizza!"  up the stairs to my husband. 

Another example is Pop tarts. I really missed them and got heavily reminiscent for them one day, but I didn't want all that high-fructose corn syrup and nasty stuff that comes with them.  So I bought the SUPER healthy option instead.  Nature's Path Organic Toaster Pastries are by no means health food but they satisfy a craving, man.