dotPod eats everything pregnant ladies can't

Yeah lunch meats. You know it looks delicious, but too bad ladies! This is our lunch!

Lunch!

Why you shouldn’t eat fish while you’re pregnant.

I’ve gotten quite a few suggestions that we should ingest unpasteurized milk. Even though I’m lactose intolerant, I can see myself doing what I must for the good of the week. I just need to find a dairy farmer and get some fresh milk. We can make scrambled eggs with it. Double whammy!

Silly that anybody would eat these things, I’m surprised people have to be told.

Never eat nonfood items like clay, starch, paraffin or coffee grounds. Eating these things can cause problems for you and your baby.

I bet we can get Sean to eat a few of these.

Yummy, too bad those carrots look unwashed! NO NO

• It is imperative that you avoid drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Alcohol has been proven to cause, premature births, low birth weights, mental retardation and other birth defects.

• You should also limit your caffeine intake while you are pregnant to no more than 300 mg a day. Remember that chocolate contains caffeine and you be careful how much at of that as well as monitoring your coffee, tea an soda intake.

• You should decrease your total fat intake by about 30% as well. So if you are have a regular calorie in take of about 2000 calories, you shout limit yourself to maybe about 65 mg of fat.

• Avoid raw fish, especially shellfish like oysters or clams.

• Avoid soft cheeses such as feta, Brie, Camembert, blue-veined, and Mexican-style cheese. Because these cheeses are often unpasteurized and can cause a bacterial disease. You don’t have to avoid hard cheese, processed cheeses, yogurt, cream cheese or cottage cheese.

• Do not eat foods with high levels of mercury like shark or swordfish.

• You should also limit your cholesterol intake to about 300 mg per day.

• It is highly discouraged for pregnant women to use saccharin because it can cross the placenta and remain in the fetal tissue. However the use of other FDA-approved non-nutritive or artificial sweeteners is okay. These include Equal, Splenda, NutraSweet, or Sunett.

Reference: http://pregnancy101.org/what-to-eat-when-pregnant/

These are the things we will be aiming to eat.

So far these are the types of food that we are going to focus on:

• Sushi
• Hotdogs
• Cold cuts
• Shrimp
• Coffee & Tea
• Red Bull
• Soft Cheeses
• Raw eggs
• Tuna
• Liver
• Beer

Any more ideas, let us know!

Starting Monday the dotPod will be eating everything that pregnant ladies can’t in honor of our pregnant peers.