Thanks to you, I am finally winning the anti-pizza war in my house. I have been against pizza-that-comes-in-a-box for a long time now, and even make really good pizza from scratch from time to time, but my family will occasionally indulge their inner “bad fast food” demons and order takeout. I refuse to eat it because when I’m pregnant it smells and looks disgusting.  If my pregnant body has enough sense to not eat it, then why change the tune when I’m not pregnant?

Thanks to your links, I have now got everyone on board with animosity towards the Pizza Industrial Complex.  But I saw this shirt on traditionalcatholicpriest.com today and had to email it to you.

 

 

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Deborah Hart writes:

Love your blog. I’m a lurker, but I cannot stand not commenting on the pizza in a box comment regarding pregnancy. If we judged all foods by what we cannot tolerate when pregnant, I would have given up coffee! No can do. Coffee is excellent. It is necessary. It is all good, and just because it repulsed me during my first four months of pregnancy is no reason to give up on it. Come on!

Laura writes:

Thank you.

Annie’s reaction to pizza shows she is one of the elect, but I think you are right.

If pregnancy determined what people ate, the sauerkraut business would have died a long time ago.

Annie writes:

I agree with Deborah Hart and upon rereading, agree that my original comment needs elucidation. Every pregnancy is different, and pregnant women are famous for eating odd things. However, it is my personal experience that cheap, disgusting food eaten for convenience sake (such as pizza in a box or fast food) becomes so repugnant to me for its list of fake ingredients during pregnancy that it became impossible to eat after the babies were born and the food woes disappeared. Hard to explain, but the aversion was stronger than ever.  The more one eats really good pizza with high quality ingredients crafted with love and care, the more one realizes the other is a cheap imitation and provides nothing for our nutritional needs.

I heard a sermon once about how to be perfect as Our Heavenly Father is perfect. The priest had many things to say, but one that stuck in my mind was the importance of eating good food for the glory of God. He used a properly cooked steak as an example.  God created that cow, and the steak is for us to eat, to give us strength. But so many people only understand beef in the context of a hamburger from McDonald’s. They have never had a delicious steak.  So the priest encouraged his congregation to prepare a special meal, cook a steak with care and enjoy the meal with our family for the glory of God. This has become a special tradition in our home once or twice a year and I hope my children continue it as they grow older.

And of course, coffee is good. Coffee is essential. Coffee is a gift to us harried housewives who suffer from the demands of home and hearth.  And with the permission of my midwife, I have one cup daily during pregnancy with a very liberal addition of half and half or whipping cream.

Laura writes:

That is a very interesting and important point you make about bad food.  It’s an offense to God.

Fast food is evil.

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