Yo Mamma's So Fishy...

Thanks for all the nice wishes! It feels good to be able to talk about being pregnant; I think not writing about it on blog was part of the three month hiatus. Who can concentrate on hilarious reality television when all you can really think about is not puking every time you check your spam folder and have to read another spam recipe link on top of your messages.

I am just now getting back on good terms with food, which is great because I like food and being held hostage by powerful nausea is no way to properly nourish your body or enjoy going out with friends. J and I hit up Whole Foods over the weekend and we stopped in the yogurt section. We often buy Stonyfield Farms brand because it's made with pectin instead of gelatin, gelatin not being vegetarian-friendly. I don't normally go for gimmicky food stuffs geared at a particular demographic, but this did catch my attention:

First of all: "YoMommy"? Hahahahaha! But upon further examination, it contains folic acid and vitamin D and DHA and it was on sale, so hey, why not? I sat down the next day to eat some and after the first bite--which tasted fine--I happened to turn the container around to look at the ingredients. Let's take a look:

OUR FAMILY RECIPE: CULTURED PASTEURIZED ORGANIC LOW FAT MILK, NATURALLY MILLED ORGANIC SUGAR, ORGANIC RASPBERRIES, FISH OIL (ANCHOVY OIL, SARDINE OIL, TILAPIA FISH GELATIN: A NATURAL SOURCE OF DHA), PECTIN, ORGANIC BLACK CURRANT JUICE CONCENTRATE (FOR COLOR), NATURAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN D3, FOLIC ACID. CONTAINS OUR EXCLUSIVE BLEND OF SIX LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES INCLUDING L. ACIDOPHILUS, BIFIDUS, L. CASEI AND L. RHAMNOSUS.

Fish oil! Lots of fish oil! For those of you keeping track, this would make they yogurt decidedly non-vegetarian. At first I was just baffled. But then I got mad. Who puts fish oil in fruit yogurt? Especially yogurt that is usually catering to vegetarians concerned about something like gelatin. They should more clearly indicate on the label that the DHA their promoting comes from fish (there is vegetarian algae-derived sources of DHA), but then again, why would they? Would you pick up a blueberry yogurt that advertised it was now made with additional fish oil?

Let me tell you: thinking about fish yogurt is the last thing you want to be doing when you're just getting over first trimester nausea.