Food with twins in my belly

Lots of folks have been asking me about food lately. I try to eat a lot because we learned in our twin class that I took at the beginning of the pregnancy that I should get around 3500 calories a day. But then the instructor said that there is a book out there written by a doctor who advised his multiple moms to consume up to 5000 calories a day with 40% coming from carbohydrates, 40% from fat and 20% from protein. He said that with this diet, there would be less chance of low-birth weight, pre-term labor and all sorts of complications. So our instructor said, "Not that you have to eat that much, but look into the book if you are interested".

I'm not interested. 3500 calories a day is enough.

So what do I eat and how do I get enough?

Well, first off, I'm not as active as I was when I was eating 2000 a day. Today I had cereal and milk for breakfast with aon orange juice spritzer. Then I had a bagel with cream cheese and fruit for a snack (or second breakfast as I sometimes call it). Then I had chickpea vegetable fritters (leftovers from last night) and two hardboiled eggs and a banana for lunch. With chocolate chips and almonds for lunch dessert.

Then I had two oranges and a luscious snack square nut bar (my favorite snacks!!!) for my snack right now.

Later I'll have dinner and I think we are cooking up some venison, potatoes and salad tonight. Then I'll have one last "meal" which is almost always yogurt, fruit and ground flax seed around 10:00pm before I go to bed.

I have no idea how many calories that adds up to but I'm at the weight that I should be. At 34 weeks I have gained about 48 pounds. My goal is between 50 and 60 pounds once the boys are here (which I have no idea when that will be).

But the best thing in the world fell into my lap this week.

Grocery store delivery.

Yes.

I'm in love.

I click on a couple of boxes at home on my computer and the next day I have some teenage boy put all the food I'd want on my kitchen counter. Awesome!

There was only one hiccup: I somehow ordered cooking cream cheese instead of regular cream cheese. I have no idea how this happened except that I did do the order at 11:30 at night. But for those of you who know me and my relationship with cream cheese, this little flub was almost disastrous. But I bought some more today so since we weren't raptured, the world will go on!