Food issues...

I've had several tips about curbing my nausea. The most popular one seems to be:

before you even lift your head off the pillow - eat some saltines...


Since I never expected to get sick, this "morning" sickness thing really caught me off guard. I really thought that since I'm a food pig - none of that sickness would happen. I'd just eat like a horse like I always do. I mean, I'm constantly thinking about my next meal. "What's next to eat??"

Anyway, I'm usually pretty unprepared for most things that happen in my life so I don't have any saltines in the house. We don't eat crackers really so we don't own them. Sooo...I thought I was doing good to get up and eat a Go Tart (a new fangled Pop Tart that you don't toast - I loved 'em!). I found out quickly that those things weren't going to cut it. At all.

I switched to Kashi granola bars. They're really good for you. I will be honest and say that they are not the most delicious thing I've ever eaten but - right now - when smells and sights of certain foods are making me sick, a bland granola bar is my best friend. They have verrrry little sugar (again, the taste reflects this), they are not made with preservatives and "bad things" like that, and they have a good amount of protein and fiber which I need more of in my diet. I eat two of them every morning (and whenever I need a late night/middle of the night snack). They've saved my life!!

Foods I hate:

• Ham (I never DID really like it - I hate it actually. But just the sight of seeing my coworker eating it made immediately ill.)
  
• Anything with ham in it
• Turkey bacon (Mike made a split pea soup with Turkey bacon - it turns out - I hate that type of bacon.)
  
• Breakfast sandwiches and hash browns (I though these were the cure all for a while - now the thought of them makes me gag.)
• Go Tarts
  
• Almost anything I've eaten recently and don't want to eat again with the exception of a Jack's Mexican pizza which I ate two nights in a row. I actually went to the store and bought another one for dinner again the next night.
• Clear soda (another overdose victim of mine).
  

Foods I bought at the store and
have yet to use and maybe never will:

• V8 juice (low sodium)
  
• Sparkling pear juice
• Ginger Ale
• Ginger soda
• Root beer
• Goldfish crackers
• Unsalted saltines
• Pretzels
• Various soups that don't appeal to me anymore
• 50,000 breakfast sandwich items which I made Hubband move to the fridge in the garage because I can't stand to look at them - I just gagged thinking about them.
  
• Almost anything that's in the house - I usually crave food items that are not at home. (When used here, the word "crave" means anything that I think I might be able to stomach and absolutely nothing else will do.)