Eat it while you can
Pregnancy means it is open season on the wallet. And the first (of many) gasket to blow is the weekly food budget. ‘Organic, free-range’ are no no longer just words used by chardonnay hippies-to describe their personal hygiene. ’Use By Dates‘, no longer just recommendations, become stressful deadlines.
While there are a few foods that may disappear from your fridge – Blue Cheese. Cooked Meats – by and large, your kitchen will fill up with the most exotic, most expensive items from the supermarket – corn-fed chicken breasts, mini yogurt pots, chocolate deserts, fresh fruit and veg, protein shakes.
Sadly, this will also offset any gains you may have felt from halving the weekly booze spend.
So my advice to blokes is this; ride that pregnancy gravy train hard. Get your money’s worth. Because while your better half may crave all the expensive food you’ve bought together, half the time she’ll be too sick to eat it. And once the food gets within even a sniff of it’s use-by date, forget about it. Better that it finds a home in your belly.
And what a big belly that can become. After about the 4th month, I began to question who, in this relationship, was actually pregnant.
In her first trimester, my wife lost about 4Kg. (Awesome.) Partly this was due to morning-sickness and a lack of appetite. Mostly (we think) it was because she stopped drinking. And though she has since crept slowly back up to, and just past, her original weight, I swear she has not put on as much as me.
But then, I have also been drinking for two.
