I found a new nemesis this week, peanut butter cookies. I suppose it is a love/hate relationship. I have not had a single peanut butter cookie, but I would love to go chomp, chomp, chomp on them.
I am a proficient cook and have battled myself Tuesday night and Thursday night not to make a batch. One cookie would be fine, three cookies would be fine. However let’s face it, I am in my third trimester and imagine I could easily wipe out a dozen with a tall glass of milk. And if you are making cookies from scratch, even with wholesome ingredients, a half batch is at least two dozen.
My husband has offered to be around when I make them because he says he will confiscate them and give them to people the next day. I don’t think that is a good idea because he is on a clean eating program himself and has a notorious sweet tooth, I imagine he would easily knock out a dozen on his own while commuting in the morning. I don’t want to sabotage his progress.
I am not known for having a sweet tooth so many of my close friends are like, “make yourself a damn cookie already.” I just feel it could be a slippery slope. I think I ate too much in the last couple of weeks. I am now 7 pounds up from my pre-pregnancy weight which is really not bad, but I would rather put on weight with healthier food. I felt thick by Sunday so have been really cracking the whip on clean eating this week. I feel much more svelte now on Friday. That is another reason to resist the call of the cookie, I am looking pretty cute and don’t want to blow it.
This peanut butter cookie obsession is strong though! Pregnancy is making me want to be weak! I have made smoothies with a bit of peanut butter in them… good but not the same thing. I planned on making cookies for my dad to mail to him this weekend (with things I am allergic to so I don’t eat them)… however my dad may be getting 1 1/2 dozen peanut butter cookies instead of 2 dozen oatmeal cookies. Bwahahaha, that would be dastardly.
So apologies for so much peanut butter cookie chatter on twitter this week. Even though no one responds to talk me off the ledge it is another accountability tool as I am trying to eat good #preggofuel as part of my #mamavation program.