I made it to 6am spinning this morning despite to 20 degree weather. I was happy I went even though I didn’t work out as hard as usual.

School went well today – we did a day on Kwanzaa, tomorrow is Hanukkah and next week (Mon. and Tues) we are learning about Christmas!

After school I picked up the house and worked on Christmas cards. When Brady got home, we made a quick dinner that sounded really good: Healthy Loaded Baked Potatoes. I don’t usually eat white potatoes because I always choose a different grain before a potato, or I have a sweet potato but this sounded like a good change for tonight.

Healthy Loaded Baked Potatoes

(this recipe is really just anything you have in the fridge that sounds good on a potato)

• baking potatoes – baked in the oven or microwave, whatever you prefer
• broccoli
• avocado, chopped
• tomatoes, chopped
• black beans, drained and rinsed
• feta
• salsa
• chicken (Brady added BBQ chicken to his)

I was happy the plate turned out like a colorful rainbow! Lots of great nutrients, too.

Healthy fat from the avocado

Protein from the beans

Vitamin C and K from the broccoli

Lycopene from the tomatoes and salsa

Then there was a problem….

I took one bite of the potato with the fixings and I couldn’t eat it. I spit the potato back out (TMI, sorry) and ate the veggies and feta around it. I don’t know why but the potato made me want to puke. I know the potatoes weren’t rotten as I watched Brady chow down. It must have been the baby.

So after a plate full veggies, which I was not upset about, I needed some carbs. I decided to make popcorn to go with our TV/Christmas movie night. I used the air popper, which I absolutely love!

The popcorn turned out perfect, like usual. As we each got a bowl, Brady’s with just a little butter and salt and mine the same way until I added chocolate chips. I thought this would be a great addition to my snack but I was wrong. One taste of the chocolate chip and I spit it out. My whole bowl went into the garbage and I had to make another batch of popcorn so I could have it sans chocolate chips. Again, blaming the baby.

The last weird food thing that happened was while I was making cookies. I made my usual sugar cookie recipe and proceeded to make fun holiday cookies for a party we are going to this weekend. After I finished making the dough in my Kitchen Aid, I tasted it to be sure it was safe. As far as I was concerned, it was not safe. I spit it out. I then had Brady taste it and he assured me that it was just me – the cookie dough tasted fine. The potato, chocolate and cookie dough all tasted like normal tonight.

So…long story about the weird food aversions I had tonight. Has anyone else had this problem? I have only had it a few times before tonight but this was by far the worst!

I will have to try the potato again sometime because the picture just reminded me how good it should have been. 🙂 Happy Friday!

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