I have been very lucky to have mostly healthy cravings. I generally want fresh fruits and vegetables, although packaged fruit cups will do, Dill flavored things (in pickles and ranch dressing), and the occasional cinnamon roll.
My #1 craving, however, has been milk. My first pregnant-crazy moment was driving to the grocery store, buying a pint of chocolate whole milk, and drinking half of it on the drive home, straight from the bottle.
I am happy with any milk (although skim seems a bit weak), but I LOVE the milk from one of our local dairies. Maple View Farms is a fantastic establishment, with about 130 cows in their milking herd. The ladies produce milk, butter, and are famous for their ice cream! (The non-dairy herd also produces meat - but don't tell the Chick-fil-A cows!) They have grain crops to feed the cattle, and an agriculture educational center where Christian and I attended the best forth birthday party ever.
The milk has no added antibiotics or hormones, but is not certified since all distribution is local. The milk is carried at our local grocery stores in reusable glass bottles. We pay a bottle deposit when we buy the milk and then get the money back when we return them, either to the grocery store or the farm store. We let the bottles pile up, then return 15-20 at a time. We have been going through about 3 quarts per week, and by we I mean LC and Shelly. Christian doesn't drink any.
I got hooked on Maple View when on Weight Watchers, because the skim and reduced fat milks do not loose their protein content with the removed fat. Most grocery store skim milk has less protein than the whole milk. Their processing leaves the milk with fabulous flavor and nutrition.
As you can tell, this milk has become a bit of an obsession for me. Given all the things I could crave, I'd say this is a good one. Also - SO excited to learn of another new friend for LC expected later this year! :-)
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