I'm pretty hungry these days. Not surprising, considering the small human leech who is intent on draining my life force in the form of milk. This same leech makes it kind of hard to prepare food, however, which leaves me with limited options. But I do have one go-to, never-fail, quick and easy food that sustains me pretty much on a daily basis: peanut butter on bread.
In the morning when Cubby is screaming for his (third) breakfast and I have to eat something before I pass out? Peanut butter on bread. In the afternoon when there are still a couple of hours before dinner and I know I'll never make it? Peanut butter on bread. At night before I go to bed, when I'm just a little hungry and know that if I don't eat something, I'll be unbearably ravenous when I get up for the 2 a.m. feeding?
I'm sure you get it.
I even considered just keeping a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter in our bedroom so I can eat when I actually wake up at 5 a.m. instead of waiting until we go downstairs at 7 a.m. But I thought that might be taking it a little far.
What's your go-to, must-eat-now food? I'm willing to branch out.
I used to eat a lot of hard-boiled eggs when I was pregnant/nursing, plus I started buying anything in individual sizes (juice boxes of Vruit, string cheese, etc.) Basically anything that I could just reach in the fridge, grab, and eat in less than a minute with one hand.
ReplyDeleteI've NEVER been as hungry as I was when I was the kid's food source. Peanut butter on bread was also my go-to snack, as well as granola bars in the middle of the night. I was also known to inhale ungodly amounts of yogurt.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen those little individual wax wrapped Babybell cheeses? Yeah, we pop a couple of those whenever the snack or hunger pangs strike. Along with a handful of almonds and a few dates, I can be satisfied for hours.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with keeping it in the bedroom? This time of year it's still a pretty good refrigerator, right?
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I have used PB as a go-to food lots of times. Another quickie idea: cereal and milk. I am not now, or ever really, a "cereal person" but I do like the Honey Bunches of Oats with Peaches. I also like to put brown sugar on cereal such as corn flakes, instead of white sugar. I know, weird. But it tastes better!
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you like cheese, cut up a large piece of cheddar (or whatever floats your boat) and keep it well-wrapped in the fridge. Cheese and crackers was what my doc recommended to me when I was nursing back in the dark ages known as the 80s :-) I still turn to cheese and crackers when I need a snack, fast. Peanut butter on crackers is good too and gives you variety from the bread :-)
Soft spreadable cream cheese is another handy thing to keep in the fridge; particularly good on crackers with some sort of jelly (hot pepper jelly is very good).
==lennie==
Oh, one other thing while we're on the topic of food.....
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I second Drew here! Keep the peanut butter and bread in the bedroom. It won't spoil, and just keep a few dozen plastic knives nearby to use and dispose of (I know that's not environmentally good but you sound desperate).
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Something you can keep beside the bed at night for Kristin feedings.
I vote with the others keep it in the bedroom or just make one up before you go up to bed , take it with and munch at 5 and fall back to sleep when you can. Peanut butter on bread is mine too. Cream cheese on bread or on crackers. Yogurt, yes. Frozen banana pops. Yah, that's me, queen of good eating. :) Beth
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an unintelligible word said with a mouthful of peanut butter on bread.
i don't think I have a go-to food. Mmm. I've never really thought about it. I guess I just have a glass of sweet tea.
ReplyDeletecheese and crackers. I'd make up a little bag and put it next to my bed. Nothing like extra sharp cheddar on a triscut.
ReplyDeleteAlmonds and raisins. Apple slices used to spoon up peanut butter (carrots work, too). Hard boiled eggs. Avocado mashed on some really great whole-grain bread, if I'm lucky enough to have an avocado on hand!
ReplyDeleteToast with lots of butter :) or beer. They say there's a porkchop in every can ::laughing::
ReplyDeleteMy go to food has always been a candy bar preferably milky way. *G*
ReplyDeletePeanut butter on toast. Sometimes with a glass of milk.
ReplyDeleteBest. Meal. Ever.
Toast. Eggs. Cheese! String cheese, especially. We had no microwave then, either, so my go-to had to be easy and quick and require little or no cooking.
ReplyDeleteToast with lots of butter - MMMM. And yogurt, and dried pears, nuts, cheese.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm all for keeping food in the bedroom. I used to keep saltines in my nightstand.
Being from another continet entirely, I am not sure if this will translate. My go to just-got-home-from-work-not-going-to-last-till-dinner snack is Bovril on soft white bread, with a glass of cold milk.
ReplyDeleteQuesadillas the WT way - shredded cheddar cheese on corn tortillas nuked in the microwave with...wait for it...Taco Bell sauce from the leftover packets stowed in the sideboard.
ReplyDeleteThough, in a pinch, any hot sauce works. Or, in a bigger pinch, no hot sauce at all.
Awwwwww crap. I've managed to stay out of Taco Bell for at least two years now. And now I'm craving their hot sauce.
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While I'm sorry to hear you're starving, it is a relief to know I wasn't losing it when I was a milk factory and felt like the hunger pains would never end. One good thing: I lost the baby weight EASILY, the downside: eating all the time put some of it right back. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteMy go to food when pregnant and nursing was cantaloupe. I live in the southwest and we can get surprisingly fantastic melons locally, so when I was pregnant (and it was 110+ degrees outside) I'd reach for the ever-present bowl of cut up cantaloupe. I even started just leaving a fork in it so I could eat a few pieces while standing in front of the open fridge. It was desperation. ;) Or laziness. You decide.