How my husband poisoned me

But not on purpose. I think.

The day after I got back from the hospital, I was sick sick SICK. From nausea to flu'sh.

But I just had surgery, right? Who does feel good after that? Convinced it was the surgery/ anesthesia, I did not think much of it. And every day that followed, I felt a bit better. But the nausea stayed, though mildly. Until early Thursday afternoon. There was the severe nausea again. It didn't make sense, wasn't I supposed to feel a bit better every day? But instead, I felt awful.

"Just like that time I had food poisoning", I thought..

Aha!

What did I eat?

The day after my surgery, my wonderful, caring, loving, sweet husband did some grocery shopping and bought me a big bag of 'fresh' assorted nuts. Nuts are good and I like them, so right away I ate a well sized bowl of them. The next day? Sick. And every day after that, I took a small hand of nuts. Thursday a small hand wasn't enough, no, I ate a big bowl again. And the next day? Sick again.

Now that I quit eating nuts, I feel a lot better and there's no more nausea.

While we are on the subject of food poisoning, salmonella tomatoes did not make the news in The Netherlands. Apparently we can eat tomatoes (but I will stay clear of nuts for a while).

I think it has to do with how we inspire our tomatoes.

How did you motivate your tomato plant today?

GROW TEENY WEENY TOMATO PLANT, GROW.

This was all hubby's idea. This is the first spring we are growing fruits and veggies in our garden. Though I would not quite throw away my grocery store discount pass just YET, it looks like our apple tree is growing 4 apples, our nectarine tree 1 nectarine and our four pumpkin plants have survived.

However, this little tomato plant does not look like it will ever be big enough to produce a tomato. We will see.

The idea was born out of a desire to show Monkey where food comes from. So far, he's thrilled about the whole thing. And I'm thrilled because his favorite foods are whole foods. He actually prefers green beans and carrots over cookies. That's his dads genes. They're rabbits like that.

I forgive my husband for poisoning me. He's taken such good care of me and the children. And as long as he doesn't use cyanide, I think I've married the right guy.

Have you ever had food poisoning? How did you know what it was that made you sick? Did you tell the shop or restaurant their food made you sick?

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