Pregnancy Diet: Meals and Nutrition

Nutrition During Pregnancy: Key Foods For the Diet

Key foods to eat and why:

1. Orange Juice: folate. Freshly squeezed is easy if you pickup a Cuisinart Citrus Juicer. We bought ours right after our wedding.
2. Corn Flakes: folate.
3. Eggs: folate, choline.
4. Nuts: folate.
5. Pasta: folate.
6. Salmon: Omega-3
   
7. Spinach: Iron.
8. Beans, split pea, lentils, etc. Folate.
9. Milk.
   

Key foods to avoid and why:

1. Smoking, alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, energy drinks, herbal teas (effects not known).
   
2. Sushi and oysters: raw fish should be avoided.
3. Large fish: due to mercury.

Pregnancy Diet Idea #1: Peruvian Breakfast Potato and Egg Garden Salad

• 4 boiled eggs, halved.
• 3 boiled potatoes, sliced into little disks (4 slices each).
• 2 tomatoes, cut into wedges (8 wedges per fruit).
• 1/2 cucumber, sliced
• Red leaf Romaine lettuce, placed as a bed.
• 2 limes, squeezed.
• Assembly: Place on large serving plate, gently mix so yolks do not separate. Coat with lime juice and add salt to taste.