During pregnancy it is essential to follow a varied and balanced diet. We want to offer you some simple, tasty and natural recipes for you to include in your day to day. Remember to eat 4 to 5 meals a day, with a full breakfast, a not very large meal, a light snack, and try to have dinner early. Between breakfast and lunch you can snack on a piece of fruit, but do not fall into other temptations.
It is convenient, in these 40 weeks, that increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables, to cover the greatest need that your body has in this stage of vitamins and minerals. Blue fish will be one of your best allies. And as in any other natural diet, moderate fried foods, salt and foods rich in fats and sugars.
Healthy and nutritious breakfasts
Starting the day with a good breakfast is the best way to start it. Although we already know, it is also the morning is the most "tricky" time for anything to get into your stomach. Especially during the first three months of pregnancy, when the feeling of nausea and vomiting is almost constant.
An idea for a Natural and tasty breakfast is to prepare a yogurt with cookies and nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds ... and muesli or granola. It will be perfect if you also complete it with a piece of seasonal fruit. Apricots will help you with constipation problems in pregnancy, chia too, and it also provides protein. Other highly recommended fruits are kiwi, pear, and strawberries or raspberries.
Another option is a sandwich, best with a non-industrial bread, with some slices of cooked turkey, fresh cheese, green leafy vegetables, that gives you folic acid and raw tomato. Strawberry cheese is recommended during pregnancy due to its high calcium and protein content and its low calories. A variant of this idea is tomato toast, olive oil and arugula. Until after a few months you will have to forget about the ham.
Tasty and natural meals for the day to day
You may go through a stage throughout your pregnancy in which some foods that were previously your favorites are no longer so, and they even make you feel bad. It is then the time to adopt new recipes and flavors. We recommend some of these tasty and natural recipes.
Pasta to the planter. You can choose the one you like the most, even those that already have a pumpkin or spinach flavor for example. You will need raw tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, and potatoes. Once the pasta is cooked you add the rest of the cooked ingredients, except the tomatoes. You stir everything well, with olive oil and ready to serve. Try not to add salt.
For the recipe salmon papillote fresh or frozen salmon is needed to avoid anisaki, leek, onion, green asparagus and carrot problems. After preheating the oven to 180º you introduce the foil with all the ingredients, making the vegetables the bed of the fish. Apart you prepare a vinaigrette of lemon, orange, and chopped parsley. You can accompany the presentation with brown rice, quinoa, even a chickpea hummus.
Smoothies for snacks for pregnant women
Smoothies are a good option to have between meals. Either as a snack, or between breakfast and lunch. Also some of them have properties, beyond the nutritional ones, that will alleviate some symptoms of discomfort, such as nausea or lack of energy. These are the tastiest and most natural recipes.
Pineapple and ginger smoothie, It will help you calm nausea and vomiting. You need natural pineapple and a slice of fresh ginger and mix everything. Another effective mixture to improve circulation and prevent urine infections are blueberries, avocado. You have to add water to this smoothie to make it creamy, but not doughy.
A very smoothie full in iron is the pear, spinach and almond milk. You can use the milk they sell in diet or leave a handful of almonds to soak overnight. Beat the pear clean of seeds and skin, the almond milk and a handful of fresh spinach until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.