Pesach and nutrition

[cellio]

Notes to self for next year:

• Use fish, a lot, to make up the protein deficit (waa! no soy!) without driving calories through the roof. That much meat, cheese, and egg is bad for you.
• But not tuna salad. I mean real fish, several times during the week. Fresh fish freezes.
• Eat more fruit. Fruit doesn't have to come in cans, you know; there's this place called the produce aisle.
• Eat more veggies too. Buy a microwave-safe casserole for this.
• There's a vitamin-balance problem, but I don't know how to fix it when the balanced breakfast drink is off limits.
• Baby carrots are not the only convenient raw veggie -- just the most convenient one. 400% RDA on Vitamin A is probably bad for you, even if it's only a week.
• Maybe you shouldn't eat matzah after the seders. It's not required, and there are other delivery systems for cheese and jam. Ok, maybe not jam, but you shouldn't be eating much of that anyway.

Comments

[gingicat]

Unless you're allergic to milk protein, yogurt is good for protein too.

Whole wheat matzah helps digestive issues, as do bananas.

Multivitamins, fruit juice, and dairy will help the vitamin deficit.

So saith the pregnant woman. ;)

[cellio]

Thanks for the advice.

Yogurt: good point. I've been doing that, but maybe I need to do more.

Matzah: what I really want is rye matzah. :-) (I don't care for whole-wheat bread, though I like all the other grains. I should try whole-wheat matzah, though; it's not like matzah overly resembles bread anyway.) And yeah, I've been using bananas to help with that.

I know effectively nothing about vitamin supplements, as I'm used to doing it through diet. Are there bazillions of incompatable options, or will I be ok if I just hunt down anything that claims to be balanced?

[geekosaur]

Whole-wheat matzah makes for a nice change in the diet. It's not at all bad, but then I like whole-wheat bread. (Admittedly I'd like to see the rye matzah too :)

[gingicat]

Generally, yeah, any multivitamin you can get in the supermarket or pharmacy will be fine; ask the pharmacist if you're worried. I like the Nature Made brand, myself.