Preggobesity: 30wks and Hungry!!!
Posted at 7:02 am on March 1, 2010 by Bethi
At THIRTY weeks pregnant I am obsessed with food… although I might not be the only one. I just read this article entitled: Gold medal-winning downhill skier Lindsey Vonn wrapped injured shin with Austrian topfen cheese curd… seriously. Anyway, since I have a toddler that is always falling on various parts of her anatomy and coming up bruised, I am thinking of buying stock in the company! LOL. You see, after Lindsey Vonn (our US gold medal winner in skiing) hurt her shin during training she wrapped this topfen cheese curd stuff around her leg to reduce swelling. Maybe she was just swept up in the magic of being is Austria at the time and had to slather herself in cheese (or maybe she is pregnant too, but on an Olympic diet so she had to cover herself in cheese instead of eating it), but then again… she did recover enough to WIN. So I’m just thinking that maybe there was something to it that I could use here. Wait… maybe before I get too excited about my new home remedy I should see if you can buy it anywhere. Maybe Laughing Cow would be similar?
But seriously, I do have a certain love/hate relationship with food. I mean, I love it… but the 
kinds of food I love tend to make me fat. Maybe this is because I tend to really enjoy things like ice cream, snickers bars, chicken nuggets, pizza, cake, etc. No big shocker that eating those things would make you gain weight, but certainly when you are pregnant it is hard, if not impossible, to avoid them at all times. I suppose my attitude towards food is best put in the words of Voltaire, who said “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity”. Therefore, I do my best to make meals that bring out the pleasure aspect AND lately I have been working on making my favorites a bit more ‘healthful’.
My latest creation that was a smashing hit are homemade chicken nuggets. Everyone LOVES nuggets, but since that are not exactly ‘healthy’ they are a sometimes food. Not anymore with my recipe! My husband and baby thought that they were delicious (even better that McDonald’s chicken selects) so I have added this to our weekly menu. Granted I still like to dip them in ranch dressing, but you save where you can right?! Of course I simply could not tell you this and then neglect to pass along the recipe, so here it is (with a picture too, so that you can all see how delicious they are and fun right out and buy some ingredients):
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup butter crackers, crushed
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon pepper
4 cups milk
4 chicken breasts (cut into smaller pieces)
Directions
Spray your baking dish with cooking spray and set aside. Lay out two flat casserole dishes or pie plates. In one dish pour milk. In the other dish mix cracker crumbs, paprika, and pepper. Lay out another baking dish next to the cracker crumb dish. Place chicken piece in buttermilk, coat with the cracker crumb mixture and place in the baking dish. Repeat with all chicken pieces. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes until no longer pink.
So there you have it… my attempt at health and flavor and if I say so myself there was never a better result! Do you have a favorite recipe? I would love to hear about it, since cooking and eating is a bit of a hobby/obsession with me!
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