What my pregnant self is eating/craving/making/baking FALL EDITION

catlady2015

So glad I'm not the only one without a sweet craving! I normally love all the sweet things, but even cupcakes and Reese's sound repugnant these days. It's a sad sad time in the catlady house when those things don't sound good.... 

cancer2988

I haven't really been having any "cravings" but within the past week or so I have been eating green seedless grapes with fat free caramel dipping sauce for my evening snack. My DH thinks its a strange combination but I used to eat this as a snack when I was in my late teens all the time. Don't knock it until you try it!

mamakate1616

@cancer2988 yes! That is a yummy snack 

mayoduck

@cancer2988 I have never tried that combination but I think it sounds delicious!

mschanandlerbong1214

If it weren’t for the fact that I knew this kid is a boy I would swear he was a girl. My sweets cravings are in overdrive! Just baked a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting yesterday 

@cancer2988 try rolling your caramel grapes in crushed peanuts - SO GOOD!! 

Kenneylynn3

Anyone have a good recipe for carrot ginger soup?

dtspmama

@Kenneylynn3 I loved this soup when I ate it as part of the Tone it Up Detox (pre-pregnancy).  I would think it would still be ok to eat while pregnant!

maggiemadeit

@dtspmama Now I know what I am making this weekend. I might add extra lentils and skip the blender though. Yum! 

applesandbananas23

@dtspmama I do tiu, too!!! The recipes are so good! I have been doing other workouts though because my phone is an android and their search function on the app is glitchy

lelkcot

Bumping this because I love food 😬
I made pumpkin cheesecake bars when my dad visited over the weekend and thank goodness I sent half home with him, because I’m almost done with my half! But it has pumpkin in it, so basically health food, right? 😂

mamakate1616

I made some cinnamon apples in my instant pot and had them with vanilla ice cream and granola clusters. Yummy! 

meggyme

I should have taken a picture, but I made sausage, apple, cranberry, quinoa stuffed acorn squash for dinner.

mayoduck

@meggyme wow! That sounds fancy! And delicious

meggyme

@mayoduck it is delicious, and could easily be made veggie too. Even just the stuffing without the squash makes for a great quinoa salad.

https://www.onesweetmess.com/2013/11/17/sausage-quinoa-stuffed-acorn-squash/

maggiemadeit

@meggyme I make a version of this with wild rice, but I will have to try it with quinoa next time! Yum! 

3rdtime_charmed

I haven’t really been craving a lot besides salads until this week and then it went nuts! My husband and I filled up a cart at the grocery store and the clerk is like “stocking up for thanksgiving early?” no, just eating for three!!!

catlady2015

I made sugar cookies on Monday as a "test" for holiday baking, but really just because I wanted cookies. 

hummingbird35

I've been on a panera mac n cheese bread bowl (+ cinnamon roll) kick because, fat. Trying to eat better so today I'm making curry squash soup and drinking sugar cookie sleigh ride tea.

lelkcot

It’s been rainy and cold here so I’m making poppyseed chicken casserole tonight- fx DS actually eats it.

swanbrooner

This week, I’ve wanted any form of spicy chicken I can find and I could eat my weight in pineapple. It’s nice to have any appetite again!

kapowfal

Baking cornbread for our company party tomorrow. Definitely going to eat a slice. I have to make sure it's cooked through, right?

lelkcot

@kapowfal definitely have to do a quality check  I’m baking for our company potluck tonight, too!

kapowfal

@lelkcot I had to stop myself from eating half the pan. It was pretty tasty, and perfect for this rainy, cold night. What are you baking?

kristimh80

Work catered in some amazing Mexican food today. I think I’ve ate my weight in queso today and now I’m miserable lol 😆 

meggyme

@kristimh80 that was me this afternoon after our department potluck. Just roll me outta here!

lelkcot

@kapowfal I was lazy and did a baked brie (which, unfortunately does not lend itself to taste testing)!

Kenneylynn3

Today I made banana bread muffins with chocolate chips. Then I proceeded to eat 3 of them. Oh well.

lelkcot

@Kenneylynn3 those sound delicious!

maggiemadeit

I have been on absolute diet lockdown recently, and sweets are giving me heartburn, but I am making a pumpkin cheesecake with GF ginger snap crust and a caramel topping for thanksgiving, and I might eat two slices! 

chocolatelemons

@maggiemadeit could you share the recipe? I’ve been looking for a pumpkin cheesecake recipe for Thanksgiving

maggiemadeit

@chocolatelemons Full disclosure I have never made this before. I will swap out the graham crackers for GF ginger snaps, and I made the caramel sauce today with the second link. 

https://www.tasteandtellblog.com/pumpkin-cheesecake-with-caramel-sauce/

https://www.fifteenspatulas.com/homemade-caramel-sauce/

applesandbananas23

I made this gf apple ginger cake for my dad's birthday today (recipe from minimalistbaker.com with a few changes to the recipe) and I am so proud of how it turned out!!!  I have been watching the great British baking show, so I tried to make it pretty! 

lelkcot

Had cranberries that I needed to use... So clearly Cranberry Apple Spice bread was in order this morning! (Picture in spoiler because it actually came out rather pretty and because I’m on mobile and it’s huge)