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January 18, 2018 (Updated January 4, 2023)

What Would Your One Food Be?

by Anne Mauney, MPH, RD

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Matt and I had a very important discussion last night over dinner: if you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? It may have just been because we were in the middle of eating tacos and they were really delicious, but we both said tacos. 🙂

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Tacos are so versatile, though, right? I mean, we could have breakfast tacos, fish tacos, soft tacos, hard tacos, beef tacos, vegetarian tacos… the list goes on! I’m comfortable with my decision. 😉 What would you guys choose as your one food?! (And speaking of vegetarian tacos… have you tried my Jackfruit Carnitas Tacos recipe yet?!)

Here was our spread from last night – yum. Hard tacos with all the fixings – ground beef cooked in taco seasoning, juicy tomatoes, green pepper, avocado, cheese, and some finely chopped spinach. So good! I had 3 tacos. 🙂

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In other news, we got snow yesterday! It’s always fun to wake up, look outside, and see the world looking so different from where you left it the day before. Everything always looks so clean and fresh with a blanket of snow on it.

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Unfortunately since it was so cold we weren’t able to get out for our family walk – bummer! But such a cold day did make hot yoga even more appealing. I had been trying to make it to hot yoga all week – Monday and Tuesday things got too busy with work, nanny interviews, and baby, and I ended up spending a lot of the day like this instead:

sleepy baby

Which I love, though. 🙂 Riese usually does better sleeping on Matt than on me during the day because when she’s on me she wants to start eating! But I got some sweet sleepy snuggles this week which made me happy. <3

That said, by yesterday I was really ready for some stretching and finally made hot yoga happen. I hit up a 4:30 class and it felt SO good to move and open my body up a bit.

postpartum hot yoga

My body is starting to feel a lot more like my own now, which is nice – things are loosening up a bit again (I was SO TIGHT during pregnancy and then the past month too thanks to not stretching or moving much for awhile) and I feel a lot stronger, too. I met with my postnatal PT again on Tuesday, and this time she watched me while I did some strength moves – things like lightly weighted squats and lunges, overhead press with light weights, and planks. While I was doing the moves, she checked my form and also felt my core to see if my body was able to appropriately handle the load. Good news: it was! She said I looked really stable in all the moves and that my deep core was clearly being activated to support everything, which is great. So that means she said I can go ahead and start back up with the boot camps, so long as I go slowly (to make sure my form is good), engage my core, and modify as necessary. And of course so long as I don’t feel any pain. The other key she said postpartum is that fitness should energize rather than deplete you – that can be a good sign of whether it’s too soon for what you are doing or not. So far I’ve definitely felt energized vs. more tired after yoga, even the harder classes, so that’s great.

As for running, I’m going to hold off on that for at least a few more weeks, if not a little longer. I attempted about a block of jogging the other day while out walking Freyja by myself and it really didn’t feel good in the C section scar area, so my body clearly isn’t ready for impact yet. That’s fine – I will wait! No point in rushing and injuring myself or impeding my recovery. I’m feeling grateful that yoga and strength moves are back on the table, though. (For more on my postpartum fitness journey, check out my post on What I’ve Been Doing Since The Baby Arrived (includes recs for postpartum core rehab) and my plans for getting back into fitness moving forward.)

I will leave you with a fun photo of our family walk from Tuesday – unlike snowy Wednesday, it was sunny on Tuesday. I think today will be similar so we are looking forward to another nice walk, especially since this is Matt’s second to last weekday at home!

baby walk

Have a nice day guys! We have two more nanny interviews today… I still don’t think we’ve met the perfect fit yet, so fingers crossed for these!

- anne
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32 comments
  • Rachel
    January 18, 2018 · 10:59AM:
    I think my food would be sushi, pretty much for the same reason you said tacos. So versatile! Also, depending on how it's made, you can get as much protein, fat, and carbs as you need to fuel your day! Now I'm dreaming of sushi haha
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 11:00AM:
      Ooo so true, good choice!
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  • Laurel January 18, 2018 · 11:26AM:
    As a previous commenter said, mine would have to be sushi! I missed the raw stuff so much when I was pregnant. Riese is so stinking cute!
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  • Kori
    January 18, 2018 · 11:37AM:
    It's so hard to choose!!! Can I just say a "power bowl"? - grains, protein, vegetables, cheese, and a sauce. It would be really flavorful with a variety of textures and food groups. Fun question! We just had tacos recently, and I packed us a taco salad yesterday that turned out really well. That's so awesome to hear your recovery is continuing to go well! Hope you're able to get out on a walk today, and good luck on the interviews!
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 12:22PM:
      A power bowl would be a close second for me... so good! And you can add a fried egg for breakfast bowls. :)
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      • Kori
        January 18, 2018 · 12:34PM:
        Yes, so true! Love eggs, especially on leftovers. :)
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  • Britt January 18, 2018 · 11:43AM:
    My food would be potatoes! I LOVE potatoes. And, like Bubba says about shrimp, with potatoes you can fry them, mash them, boil them, roast them, sauté them...endless possibilities! <3 potato :P
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 12:22PM:
      Haha I was totally thinking about Bubba Gump shrimp when I was listing all the taco variations!
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  • Ashton January 18, 2018 · 12:09PM:
    Pizza without a doubt.
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 12:23PM:
      Pizza is definitely up there for me too!
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  • SOKPHAL TUN
    January 18, 2018 · 12:14PM:
    Sushiii! When you do find your nanny, you hand her a rose - Bachelor style. Haha!
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 12:23PM:
      Lol!
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  • Beth January 18, 2018 · 12:15PM:
    Mine would be pizza (good NY style though) because it is so versatile. Change the cheeses, change the veggies, change the proteins, add sliced potatoes and can make it as simple or funky as I want. Yum yum yum.
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 12:23PM:
      Soooo true. Yum.
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  • Kelli @ Hungry Hobby
    January 18, 2018 · 12:17PM:
    Awwww it looks so cold but so fun there, I want to bundle up and join you! That's great you are recovering like a champ!
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  • Kelli @ Hungry Hobby
    January 18, 2018 · 12:19PM:
    OH and mine is PIZZA absolutely pizza!
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  • Katie
    January 18, 2018 · 12:24PM:
    Tacos are a really good choice, but I would probably go with cereal. It's absolutely one of my favorite foods that I could easily eat day after day after day.
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 2:29PM:
      Yum, also a good choice!
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  • TrackBuddy January 18, 2018 · 12:37PM:
    You guys are inspiring me to change my answer. Up until now I've always said perfect McIntosh apples. The ones you can only really get in the fall. But I love the versatility of sushi and tacos - brilliant! ;-)
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  • Lisa of Lisa's Yarns
    January 18, 2018 · 1:57PM:
    I'm with you on tacos. There are so many different fillings and I just love alllll the toppings. My favorite kind of tacos is a well-made carnitas taco. Yum. That's awesome that you got cleared to go back to bootcamps! I cannot wait to get back to working out. I just don't feel like myself right now and am starting to feel the pregnancy weight gain. My weight gain has been healthy but I'm at such a higher weight than I am used to and it just contributes to the fatigue I am feeling. I know that I need the extra pounds but I am very ready to shed them (however long that takes) after the baby is born. Fingers crossed that the nanny interviews go well. Gah, it's such a hard thing to figure out!
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 2:30PM:
      Yeah, it's tough carrying around extra weight - when I wear the baby now I'm like, wow, no wonder I was always so tired... I was carrying around so much extra!
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  • Roadrunner January 18, 2018 · 2:13PM:
    Rare roast beef! (And, well, smoked salmon, too.) Love the picture with the little eyes peering out!
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  • Heather @ Polyglot Jot
    January 18, 2018 · 2:29PM:
    Yep, mine would definitely be tacos too. OR sushi! I think my love of tacos is slightly above my love of sushi...very close though!
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  • Em January 18, 2018 · 3:59PM:
    BREAD! I never tire if bread, and there are many varieties. I'm tempted to pick cheese but, I think I'd get sick of it quickly if it's the only thing I ate :)
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 4:08PM:
      Truth! Bread AND cheese, though... :)
      Reply
  • Laura Swanson January 18, 2018 · 6:14PM:
    My first thought was pizza! But I think if you choose only one food for life you can't mix it up like the tacos, it should be the same type of taco, not different types with different fillings. Guess I'm no fun! :)
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    • Anne
      January 18, 2018 · 7:09PM:
      Pshhhh that's no fun ;)
      Reply
  • Kris S January 19, 2018 · 10:15AM:
    Great news! Looks like you're healing well! :)
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  • adrianna January 19, 2018 · 10:55PM:
    i absolutely agree with everyone...pizza, sushi, tacos. but my (true) initial thought was cake frosting! best of luck w/ the nannies :)
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    • Anne
      January 22, 2018 · 10:38AM:
      Lol to the cake frosting!
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  • Alisha January 21, 2018 · 7:19PM:
    I writer here in San Antonio, TX did 365 days of tacos! He had to miss a few days due to illness, but otherwise he had tacos once or twice a day! He said he never got sick of them! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/02/531266668/food-critic-now-halfway-through-taco-a-day-quest-will-he-fold
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    • Anne
      January 22, 2018 · 10:40AM:
      Okay that's amazing!
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