Once again I’ve been a bit slack with ‘What I ate Wednesday’ – mainly because I forgot to take photos of my meals. I’m blaming baby brain.  But today I remembered to photograph BEFORE eating (most of the time haha).  So here’s the latest on what I ate Wednesday.

Breakfast

Porridge is a pretty regular thing in my life for breakfast right now.  I’ve taken to cooking the berries with the porridge some days because it’s easy and it looks pretty! I had oats and white chia seeds with boysenberries cooked together, plus banana and natural yoghurt on top, but I took the photo before the yoghurt.  Oh and I added a little sprinkle of home made muesli for crunch.

I also had a latte when I got to work.  I totally went off coffee in my first trimester, but now I enjoy one  most days.  And in case you were wondering, coffee isn’t unhealthy. In fact it has some health benefits! You just have to make sure you don’t have too much (especially in pregnancy).

Around 10.30am I had one of the new Nice and Natural protein bars.  These are seriously delicious!  I think this flavour is my favourite, but they are all yummy.  I was busy with clients and didn’t get to eat till 1.30pm and this helped keep me feeling satisfied till then.

Lunch

I called home at lunch time and made a mega sandwich which was just what I felt like.  I cooked an egg with some pesto and had it with avocado, tomato, lots of lettuce, beetroot chutney, cheese and a little aoli and had it between two lightly toasted pieces of Burgen bread.  My favourite burgen at the moment is the pumpkin and chia seed variety.  I love the crunch of the pumpkin seeds.  This mega sandwich was delicious.

You’re not supposed to eat cold meat when pregnant, so eggs are kind of the main stay for me and I love them.  Nutritionally, they provide a source of over 11 vitamins and minerals, including selenium – a mineral that’s lacking in many NZ diets. They also provide vitamin B12, zinc, folate, vitamin B5, vitamins A and E, vitamin D, thiamine and iodine, so they are definitely a nutrient rich food to include in your diet.

In the afternoon I munched on a mandarin, a couple of handfuls of this nut/seed mix I forgot I had in my bag and a girl at work gave me some dark chocolate so I had half of that (one of those Whittakers 25g Sante bars).

Dinner

I felt like something comforting and carby for dinner and made mac and cheese.  I based it on Nadia Lim’s recipe from her My Food Bag book Easy Weeknight Meals.  Now if you’re thinking arg she eats pasta?! Mac and Cheese?! Well yes, I do.  Not very often really – I might have mac and cheese twice a year maybe? Sure pasta isn’t full of nutritional value, but it’s something you can eat and still be healthy. The key is to have a suitable portion and balance it with nutrient rich ingredients.  I pack lots of veges into this dish – leeks, mushrooms and spinach, plus tomato on top then I serve it with half a plate of vegetables.  I actually had more than that tonight because the coleslaw tasted so good paired with the soft pasta I had seconds of coleslaw!  I also had roasted cauliflower with it.  Roasted cauliflower tastes amazing  –  if you haven’t tried it yet, I reccomend it.  It only takes about 15 minutes, simply drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper and bake at 180 degrees celcius.

I also need to get better at taking photos of my dinner and plating it up nicely… It doesn’t look that attractive but it tasted great.

I’m also eating a mandarin as I type this…

And that’s me for another Wednesday.  I kind of feel like Wednesdays are my least interesting food days!  I might post some other days too just for fun!  Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the rest of the week – two days till the weekend yah!

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