by Ashleigh Evans posted in Pregnancy

When you're preparing for your baby, the focus is usually all about the little one, right" The best piece of advice I got when I was first pregnant with my twins 9 years ago was to make freezer meals. Starting two months before I had them, I started slowly stocking our freezer with simple meals: chili, soups, lasagna, etc. When we were starving zombies after they were born, we at least had a simple meal ahead! It turned out to be such a great idea that I'm stocking up our freezer yet again for our fourth baby.
Aside from freezer meals, there are some items you should make sure you have in the pantry. I like to keep a basket in our room filled with granola bars and dried fruit for quick snacks during nighttime nursing sessions. Here are a few other items to have on hand:
Pasta and pasta sauce. You're just 15 minutes away from a quick pasta dish. Not bad!
Cereal, granola bars and breakfast biscuits. I love the Belvita line!
Lunch meat and bread/tortillas. Quick sandwiches or wraps are great to eat on-the-go.
Quick snacks: cheese sticks, hard-boiled eggs or meat sticks/jerky
Salad mix. Top with some cheese, lunch meat slices and dressing and, voila -- healthy meal!
Produce: apples, bananas, cucumber slices, carrots, etc. All easy to snack on!

Things to think about:

Your little one might have aversions to dairy or certain foods if you're nursing. If you keep track of what you're eating, it might be easy to pinpoint what is hurting ...