Top 10 Healthy Meals For Pregnancy

When pregnant, your body needs additional nutrients, minerals and vitamins as well as extra protein and calories to ensure the health of you and your baby.

Often those people with a busy lifestyle find that having healthy meals takes away some of the stress and worry of meal prep especially when pregnant and not feeling like cooking.

  1. Fresh fruit and vegetable smoothies and shakes
  2. Savory oats with boiled egg and collard greens
  3. Watermelon, arugula, feta cheese, walnut and mint salad with Yogurt dressing
  4. Lasagna with ground lean lamb, aubergine, tomato, cottage cheese and spinach
  5. Grilled salmon with fresh steamed vegetables and avocado
  6. Crunchy chicken and mango salad
  7. Pressure cooked chili beans with Mexican spices and yogurt
  8. Peppers stuffed with cauliflower, broccoli and 0live cheese sauce
  9. Korean beef and broccoli stir-fry with shrimp
  10. Slow cooker Chicken stew with mushrooms and wild rice

Having a simple garden fresh salad, a bowl of couscous, wild rice or quinoa with your meal will round it off and help to keep you full for longer and ensure you are getting all the nourishment required for both yourself and your baby.

Here are 10 commonly available healthy, nutritious foods that are good to incorporate into your meals when pregnant.

  1. Natural yogurt is full of probiotics to lower the risk of complications and like other organic dairy products help to give you more protein and calcium.
  2. Lentils beans and peas are a great source of plant based protein, fiber, iron, folate and calcium and many other nutrients needed during pregnancy.
  3. Sweet Potatoes are a very good source of beta-carotene for vitamin A which helps cells growth and differentiation in a growing fetus.
  4. Salmon (ocean caught) is full of Vitamin D and omega-fatty acids DHA & EPA that are essential for a babies eye and brain development.
  5. Eggs (Organic) are the ultimate health food it is the purest form of protein known and contains almost every nutrient needed with only 77 calories in a large egg.
  6. Organic Green Leafy vegetables including broccoli are high in natural fiber both soluble and non-soluble which help to remove toxins and stop constipation contain Along with spinach and kale they contain most of the nutrients needed. You can also order online food from online healthy food delivery service providers.
  7. Free Range Naturally Fed Organic Lean Meat including beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken and other poultry are all good sources of protein essential vitamins and minerals.
  8. 15ml of Good quality Fish Liver Oil will provide the daily requirements of many of the omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin and D.
  9. Berries of all types, are very high in antioxidants, vitamin C and help with nutrient absorption.
  10. Whole grains are full of fiber and provide calories for energy as well as the b vitamins.

Ensuring you eat a good variety of the best available foods preferably organic or locally produced fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, meats and seafood’s while keeping processed and junk types of foods to the absolute minimum will ensure you have a healthy baby and trouble free pregnancy.

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