Where can you get nutritious and beneficial foods for pregnant women?

Question

This is for an assignment, NOT for any other reasons... (o.O')

Answer 1

I go to the grocery store and buy plenty of frozen fruits and vegetables. ("Fresh" loses too many nutrients and is handled way too much between harvest and grocery store; canned is too processed and loaded with sodium. Frozen veggies are frozen just few hours after harvest.) I also buy nothing but whole grain pasta, bread, brown rice, whole wheat tortillas, cereal, etc. Nothing white. I also stay away from overly processed foods and foreign unnatural ingredients. I buy organic when I can, but often when the price difference isn't substantial. (Yesterday my husband and I went to the grocery store and bought some organic canned mushrooms which were actually a dime less than the conventional store brand canned mushrooms. We bought some organic canned beans because they did not have the type of bean we wanted in dried so we figured if we were going to do canned, we go for the better stuff. We buy organic ketchup because it contains no corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup.)

I read labels. A product might make a health claim on the front (like five grams of whole grains), but at the same time, the first ingredient might be enriched wheat flour. If the first ingredient is not whole wheat, I don't buy it. If there are ingredients that man made in a chemistry lab and God did not make in nature, I do not buy it. I don't need it. My body doesn't process it as food and my baby certainly does not need it.

As for "needing" meat and dairy and eggs, I don't buy it. I'm eight and a half months pregnant. I'm healthy. My baby is healthy. That's what matters.

Answer 2

In the fruit and vegetable section of the local supermarket would be your cheapest and easiet bet. Pregnant women need healthy doses of good old fashioned fruit and vegies and couple of serves of fish a week, 3 serves of red meat and then white meet. Grains, nuts and plenty of water to fill in the gaps! The normal stuff anyone else should be eating really. Apart from taking Folic Acid there should be no reason a normal pregnant woman would need any other extra nutritious foods.

Oh and dairy foods like milk, yoghurt and cheese (but not soft cheeses such as brie, camembert etc...)

Answer 3

Are you thinking organic/all natural type foods?

There's a grocery store--Central Market--I don't know if they have one near you, or another called Whole Foods. If you can't get to one of these, regular food will work, especially if it's marked organic.

The two most important foods to worry about being organic are milk and spinach. Just skip the spinach and make sure the milk is from cows that are hormone/antibiotic-free.

Otherwise, just buy regular foods, lots of veggies & fruits, whole wheat bread, lots of fiber. Meat should be low in fat, but it doesn't have to be nonfat. If she's hungry for something sweet, candy bars should have peanuts in them, and any home-made dessert is okay, but not the baked goods from the bakery (wrong kind of fat will make you fat). She needs lots of iron (frozen Eggo waffles, grapes, raisins & cereal).

All in all, just feed her the same kind of healthy meals we all should be eating. Some fat is okay, olive oil (not lard), butter (not margarine). Lots of calcium--milk, cheese, half-cal ice cream.

Hope this helps you.

TX Mom
not an expert

P.S. A daily vitamin is essential, especially during first 6 weeks.

Answer 4

Trader Joes
Sprouts
Grocery Store
Health food stores
Farmers Markets

Answer 5

Some women join WIC, a program for Women, Infants, and Children. That supplies healthy foods for pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and even formula, cereals and juice for infants. Then healthy foods for Children to grow on.

Answer 6

JUST GO TO YOUR SUPERMARKET!
WHEN YOUR PREGNANT, YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU EAT LOADS OF FRUIT AND VEG, FOODS PREF LOW IN SUGAR.
YOU NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM THINGS HIGH IN VITAMIN A, SUCH AS LIVER.
SOFT CHEESES. SUCH AS BRIE, BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF LISTERIA
YOU ALSO NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM PATE'S, AND ANYTHING THAT IS UNPASTURISED....
JUST EAT NORMALLY, BUT TRY TO EAT HEALTHILY.

Answer 7

Organic grocery shops are great!

Answer 8

The supermarket...

Answer 9

grocery store