now that Wife is pregnant and I end up doing the cooking...

[iaJim]

That sounds great Michael. I'm going to do that one soon.

[TheCaber]

As mikebw, but get a bag of frozen tortellini (like cheese ravioli, but micro-donut shaped) and prep them by boiling 5-8 minutes. drain, add to sauteed veggies, mix and serve.

fast; easy-peasie.

[rgG]

I remember that I lived mostly off white rice for a couple of months. I could not stand to be in the same room while my husband ate anything that had an aroma of any kind. The heightened sense of smell is what really makes it bad.

Good luck finding things that work for you and your wife. My advice is the blander the better, at least for her.

[ztirffritz]

How did I go 34 years and no one ever told me about the Bionic Nose that develops with pregnancy?!?

[kap]

Heh, some of the recipes here sound good ... my S/O is not pregnant. Otherwise, it'd be meals of icecream and pickles combined. Yuck!

[MacArtist]

ztirffritz wrote:
How did I go 34 years and no one ever told me about the Bionic Nose that develops with pregnancy?!?

Trust me...there are a lot of other things people didn't tell you about. I call it the "unmentioned" rules of having and raising children.

Like the one where you can't have just one child. I was pretty naive about that one.

Another one was having a child is the best form of contraception. It's like they know the moment you are trying to get "intimate" and they will do what they can to interrupt you. And even if they don't try to interrupt you; you are sure they will at any moment so you don't even try to do anything.

There's more. It's just I have tried my best to forget them.

[OWC Jamie]

Recipes help ?


"make me some toast ?"

"OK, hon".

"Is that butter ?"

"yes"

"are you stupid ? you know I can't stand the sight of butter. Yell, yel, scream, scream about butter".

I'll make you a better one, how's that?


"OK"


minutes later:

"here ya go."

"no butter ?"






"you want butter, but you don't want to see it, smell it or taste it ?"


"yes".



"how about a salad ?"

[AlphaDog]

In the big scheme of things, I'm having trouble working up a lot of sympathy for you guys.

[TheCaber]

AlphaDog wrote:
In the big scheme of things, I'm having trouble working up a lot of sympathy for you guys.

'sOK, AD, it goes with the territory.

[mrbigstuff]

space-time wrote:
[quote=ztirffritz]
I wish you luck. Basically, my wife is living off of oatmeal, soy milk, cereal, the occasional piece of beef, and lots of raw veggies. Her newly enhanced bionic nose is driving me crazy. Everything smells wrong or bad to her. She is ALWAYS cold.

I know, for us it's the second pregnancy. What's worse is now we have a toddler that needs our attention, and sometimes she feels so bad she can't even stand up.
oh, that ain't nothin'

you wait until the baby is crying, the toddler is running up and down, the laundry is undone, you have to go to work, there's no milk in the house and no gas in the car...

you just wait .....

:-D