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March 20, 2006
Overwhelming Craving For Tomatoes
Here's a puzzle for the blog readers: Why am I suddenly craving grape tomatoes? I ate almost two whole pints yesterday -- nice ripe organic ones. I couldn't help myself... the desire was overwhemlming. MR thought it was cute. If you've got to go nuts on something, let it be tomatoes.
This has been a super-busy weekend. On Saturday I took MR to the train station for a trip at 6:37 am, came home and ate and cleaned the kitchen, ran to Whole Foods and Trader Joes, had a strategy discussion on the phone with my boss Edward, drove to New Jersey for a meeting with RNs (where I ended up eating the turkey sandwiches the nurse had prepared for our lunch along with several spoonfuls of potato salad) then back home to go to the Cresheim Cottage Cafe where my mom and I had a delicious dinner. I ate the shrimp and mussels stew and we split the dip trio. Pinot noir. Yum!!! At nine I set out to pick up MR from a train station in New Jersey and we got home about midnight and to bed at 1. Then up again at 5:30 the next morning... can't miss Sunday breakfast!
Yesterday I did the house cleaning for the week, interuppted liberally by calls from nurses and staff. In the afternoon Luke came over (he and his wife live about five minutes from me and MR) and we worked on a flyer. He graciously picked up cat food for me, since I was out and Kieffer was threatening to eat me alive. Then MR and I had dinner and I did a short bit of work for the Mprize. Then I crashed. Slept through most of the night, in spite of work stress dreams. Woke up with a flyer written in my head.
Tonight I am going out with VLC! I'm bringing Luke and Susan out to meet their predecessor. We're going to Tria... what should we eat?
I wonder if they have grape tomatoes...
Posted by april at March 20, 2006 6:25 AM
Comments
I have been craving grape tomatoes also. Thats how I found this page, wondering if there was an explination. I went a meeting tonight and there was a veggie tray, I ate several of the tomatoes, but i didnt want to want to eat them all. So as soon as the meeting was over, I made it to the nearest grocery store and bought a carton of grape tomatoes. I ate the whole thing when I got home. This craving has been going on for days. I may be losing my mind.
Posted by: Nikki at January 10, 2007 9:50 PM
I was recently told that a craving for tomatoes may be linked to iron-deficiency anemia. You should go to your primary care to see if you have iron-deficiency anemia. I've been craving tomatoes recently too, but I noticed other symptoms that represent iron-deficiency anemia like loss of color in my nails, brittle nails, loss of color in my lip, craving salty and crunchy foods, craving chocolate (not as much) but definitely finding a new heated passionate love of tomotoes. I don't think you are crazy :o)
Posted by: niki at October 2, 2007 5:36 PM