Craven cravin' and the Bugle of the Broad Bean

[dradamsapple]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
>
> Tell me, all you mothers out there, did you get weird food cravings 
during pregnancy?  . . . 
> 
> Now, if pregnancy cravings are the body's way of demanding a 
particular nutrient for the fetus, surely non-pregnant cravings 
shouldn't be ignored either.  I've long suspected that they are the 
body's way of telling you what it needs.  I know lots of people laugh 
ruefully and say well in that case my body always needs chocolate, 
but I think there are cravings and there are... hankerings (!).
> 
> So, what thoughts?  Let's hear the craven cravin' stories...
> 
> Tabouli.
> 

Ah, yes.  I also thought with my first two pregnancies 
that "cravings" were the body's way of making sure it got what was 
needed to "make a baby".  However, within the first year of life of 
my third child, I realized that the cravings were actually coming 
from him!!  

You see, every Wednesday, where I worked was *Mexican Food* day, and 
I could not pass that Mexican bar (you know, make your own burritos, 
tacos, salads, etc.) without getting AT LEAST one chip with quacamole 
and salsa on it.  

My now five year old son, (the spicy one) eats ketchup with almost 
anything, likes black pepper and ketchup on his scrambled eggs, LOVES 
ULTIMATE DORITOS, and eats bologna sandwiches for breakfast. What 
more can I say.  Oh yes, *He* also was VERY thirsty when he was in 
his little womb;  I probably drank more water during those nine 
months that I have in my entire lifetime (my husband calls me "camel 
woman"), and yes, he can drink me under the table now.  

Mother Nature is a powerful force!

Anna . . .