A lot of you new moms out there probably got or are getting the popular weekly  newsletter- “Your pregnancy this week…” e-mailed from babycenter.com. Each week this e-mail updates you with information on your growing baby. You become enlightened (and perhaps frightened) by new terms like “Lanugo” and “Vernix.”

But the part that always amused me was each weeks comparison of the baby to grocery store produce. Early on - the embryo is compared to a lentil bean by week nineteen; a zucchini. In between you get, “This week….your baby is approximately the size of a: raspberry,  kumquat, fig, jumbo shrimp, lemon, avacado, etc.. They stop at week twenty and switch to telling you how big your baby is in plain old inches.

Seeing this as  potential blog material - I started writing down each food of the week in my notebook. Peter happened upon it and said  “What an odd grocery list. Is this for some recipe or something? Are you having wierd cravings or what?”

“That’s not our grocery list.” I said matter-of-factly. “That’s our baby!”

I had my notebook out at one day when my colleague MaryLou saw it sitting on my desk.

“Wow! Waaaaay too healthy!” she said. “C’mon! How about comparing the baby to something that pregnant women are really thinking about! Why not a Hostess Sno-ball instead of a lemon?

Why not indeed? So, here is my revised and re-tooled babycenter list with pregnancy cravings in mind:

Week    Your Baby is the size of a:

4            Lentil            Skittle

5            Raspberry     Peanut M&M

6            Grape           Godiva Truffle

7            Kidney Bean  Swedish Fish (gummi, not lutefisk!)

10          Kumquat       Cheese Curd

11          Fig                Fun Size Snickers

12         Lime               Mini Donut

13         Jumbo Shrimp  Steak Cut French Fry

14         Lemon             Hostess Sno Ball

16         Avacado            Filled Croissant   

17         Large Onion           Make that…a Bloomin’ Onion

18         Large Sweet Potato   Pint of Dove Ice Cream

19         Zucchini             Pronto Pup

In honor of the upcoming Great Minnesota Get-Together I had to throw in a few State Fair favorites. …Speaking of the State Fair. May & I will be out at the Star Tribune State Fair Booth this year on Wednesday, August 29. Details to come. We look forward to finally meeting you if you are out and about by the grandstand!

How about you - do you have any craving substitutions to add to the list above?

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