What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting

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Announcing Eating Well When You're Expecting, providing moms-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy—at home, in the office, over the holidays, in restaurants. Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight gain, food safety, the postpartum diet, and how to eat when trying to conceive again. And, very exciting, the book comes with 150 contemporary, tasty, and healthy recipes that feed mom and baby well, take little time to prepare, and are gentle on queasy tummies.

A departure from its predecessor, What to Eat When You’re Expecting, which has 976,000 copies in print, Eating Well loses the whole-wheatier-than-thou attitude, and comes with a light, reader-friendly tone while delivering the most up-to-date information. At the heart of the book are hundreds of pressing questions every mother-to-be has: Is it true I shouldn’t eat any food cooked with alcohol? Will the caffeine in coffee cross into my baby’s bloodstream? Help!—I’m entering my second trimester, and I’m losing weight, not gaining. Is all sushi off limits? How do I get enough calcium if I’m lactose intolerant? I keep dreaming about a hot fudge sundae—can I indulge? Guess what: the answer is yes.

• ISBN13: 9780761133261
• Condition: New
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Customer Reviews ::

Great education, but recipies are cumbersome - Katherine Wallen -
I really enjoyed reading the first half of the book about all the nutrition and how it affects my baby. But as I started trying to use the recipies, I found it very difficult. Rarely does any recipie call for sugar; they use fruit juice concentrate (not a whole can, just part- not enough to use for another recipie but way to much to toss)or all-fruit preserves.

Most recipies call for nutritional ingredients that you can't taste which is great. But to add pumpkin seeds to lasagna requires A) finding expensive pumpkin seeds B)spending an entire movie shelling the pumpkin seeds which creates very sore fingers and C)pureeing your tomato sauce after you add the seeds. And that is BEFORE you start making the lasagna. And it made enough lasagna for 12 and there's just me and my husband. I didn't think it was great enough to have leftovers of so we threw most of it away.

For me, morning sickness meant that anything that took more than 15 to mix was way too much effort. Then it was summer and, again, simple recipies were all I could do. All of these recipies are more effort (or the ingredients simply cost too much) for my pregnant self to handle. Simply seeing the long ingredients list made my husband refuse to even TRY cooking one of them for me.

I recommend getting this book from your library, reading the nutritional information, flip through the recipies for ideas like adding ground flax seed to other main dishes, then return it.