I figured out how to eat vegetables again.

One of the annoying things about first trimester is that it becomes hard to eat vegetables, at exactly the moment when you feel most guilty about having a cruddy diet.

In my normal life, I eat copious quantities of vegetables, like four one-half-cup "servings" at a time, so it's especially noticeable when I switch to a yogurt-and-crackers-based existence.  

I think I solved the problem this week, however.  

Step One:  First, have a gigantic craving for Vietnamese food.  Stop on the way home from the gym and get a double order of imperial egg rolls (the little crispy kind, with rice noodles and pork and shreds of carrot inside, served with syrupy fish sauce with carrot floating in it) and a large order of veggie fried rice with extra veggies.

Step Two:  Eat the egg rolls.  Be immediately blissful, followed shortly thereafter by being immediately sorry.  Unable to face it, stick the fried rice, unopened in its little wax carton, in the fridge for the next day, and stumble up to bed to lie down.

Step Three:  Mix 3/4 cup of fried rice with an entire bag of steamable mixed veggies.  I chose "Asian Medley" but I believe broccoli, carrots, and snap peas would also be nice.

Step Four:  Searching for protein, top with fried egg.  Or possibly handful of cashews.

Step Five:  Sriracha!  And egg yolk all running down into the rice.  And soy sauce.

Now all I need is a steady supply of carryout Vietnamese fried rice.  Unfortunately, I have yet to make it out of a Vietnamese carryout without also the egg rolls.

 

Comments

[Rebekka]

Or just wait until the second trimester. Works for me!