Gone In 60 Seconds

Everyone has cravings/wierd food stories from pregnancies...and now I can say, I am too in that mass of people...

I LOVE MANDRIN ORANGES.

I could eat them with every meal, in between meals, for dessert, and a midnight snack. I bet you get the picture.


I take them from this...

to this...

...gone in 60 seconds.

Pickles and Ice Cream Anyone? :: Not For Me!

So you know how when you're pregnant EVERYONE asks you if you've had pickles with your ice cream...from the co-workers who bring you ice cream, to the family members who get it for you when you want it...to the Braum's scooper-people who are trying to be funny...you know, all of them? Well, that's just gross, I thought so before and I still think so...I've made it a vow to not crave nasty stuff during my pregnancy...like I can control that!

But I do have a food that I LOVE now and not so much before being pregnant; that would be mandarin oranges. I will open a can and eat them any day; sometimes twice a day! They are so stinkin good! Now, the can has to be cold, chilled in the fridge for at least 12 hours or in the freezer for 2. The first time I opened a can and started eating them a few months back, I asked Dale if he wanted an "orange"; he said yes, so I fed him a bite...I've never seen such a disgusted face on my husband before! He HATES mandarin oranges, for some reason. So next time you want to offer someone one, be sure to specify that it is a mandarin orange...not the kind from Flordia that make GREAT juice!

That's another thing...I can't get enough juice now that I'm preggo. Al kinds of juice too...apple, orange, grape, cherry, and mix-there-of...I LOVE juice!

And you know what craving (if you want to call it that) I had the other night?? Elfin cookies... they're so stinkin good. We were just laying down to go to bed and the conversation went a little bit like this...

"I want cookies...Oo oo Elfin Cookies!!" I said rather
loudly just as the light was out and his head hit the pillow.

"Right now?" he said, puzzled.

"They sound so good."

"Do you want me to go to Wal-Mart and get you some?"

Aw, how sweet is my husband?! He would have gone and gotten them right then and there!

and my wonderful husband just brought me some with my lunch this afternoon. (have I mentioned lately that he is wonderful?!) They taste so good! I just had 3!

I am saving up for that midnight run I'll send Dale on for some obscure fast food item or crazy ice cream or something...maybe it'll be a fresh mandarin orange from where they were originally grown and distributed (Japan, southern China, India, and the East Indies, that is)...we'll see...