The ridiculousness of recommended daily food when pregnant

I’m thumbing through a pregnancy guide that Mo just left for me and I’m trying to add up in my head all of the food I’m supposed to eat in order to get my daily recommended whateverness. If I tried to eat this much, I would explode. If you simplify the food groups, here’s what it ends up looking like. Of course you have more food choices than this, It’s just easier to visualize this way:

32-40 oz of milk or 2-2.5 oz of cheese
7-8 eggs, 8oz of meat, or 2.5 cups of nuts
2-4 apples or 16 oz juice
3-5 cups raw vegetables or about 2 cups cooked
8-11 pieces of bread, or 3 cups of rice
You are supposed to swallow all this down with one Tablespoon of fat

So seriously, think about stuffing all of this food in your mouth on a daily basis and you will see just how ridiculous the recommendations are. The amount of grains are particularly baffling to me. No wonder women are confused about how much or what to eat when they are pregnant.


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