Simple Pleasures, #16
It’s sad to say, but I’m not allowed any sugar during pregnancy. I’ll explain, briefly: I have hypoglycemia, which makes me highly susceptible to gestational diabetes, a nasty condition for which the victims of must treat themselves as diabetic and shoot themselves with insulin for the remainder of their pregnancies. Additionally, it makes babies huge, often necessitating premature cesarean section procedures. Lame! What to do? The midwives have called a moratorium on all sugar for yours truly so that I don’t end up with said affliction. This means nothing that has sugar in it or anything that makes sugar in your body. So that list not only includes sugar, honey, etc. but white flour, potatoes, corn, and I even have to restrict fruit a whole, whole lot. Consider me diabetic until sometime in June when the little guy makes his appearance. Sigh. Anyways, what I’m enjoying right now is a little agave nectar. Yes, this one thing is the only thing really keeping me sane, folks. (So, you know, you might want to thank it.) Lately I’ve made some really terrible-ish cookies with the stuff. They’re more like biscuits. Sweet-ish, dense, whole-wheat, extremely healthy and they taste very, um, bland. My kidlet seems to like ‘em, and she don’t know a real cookie from shinola, so I guess that’s a good thing, eh?? So tonight I say, bless ye, Agave Nectar. You have saved my coffee and tea and sweet tooth. Oh, and there’s some whole-grain quinoa pudding cooking in my rice cooker right now. I’ll let y’all know if it’s any good. I’m sure that it will be ambrosia for the likes of me!
