When I was growing up, comfort food was something I learned about very early on. I don't subscribe to the motto that ice cream will cure all of your woes or that a chocolate bar will help you cope, it is more that I think you should eat what your body is craving. I'm not prescribing that you eat chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but if you're craving a hunk of dark chocolate, you should probably indulge. It's most likely not going to kill you.

I learned to listen to what my body was craving when I was pregnant with Leith and then again when I was hospitalized a few years ago. I won't get into all the medical mumbo-jumbo but will admit that I ate a lot of food high in iron (a good steak is my best friend) on a regular basis. It wasn't that I ate poorly before then; it was more that I became more aware of what my body desired and have continued to eat in that fashion since.

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