Seasoning cast-iron cookware

Cast Iron is so great! Not just for the health benefits, but in the well-seasoned pan is the best/easiest to cook with!
So to get that well-seasoned pan, find a cast iron skillet, pan or griddle either from your neighbor that doesnt use it, your grandma, the local thrift store, or outdoor store. Use a brillo pad and scrub out any flaking black stuff, or red rust and get the pan relatively smooth (if it is new, you may want to do this anyway to remove the scarey almost-non-food-grade preseasoning oil) you should do this under/with running hot water. With your warm pan fill it with oil of your choice I prefer olive or coconut and put in a low oven like 200. swirl the oil around to coat the insides of the pan, check periodically... the oil will get absorbed, take it out, rub more oil all over the pan and put more in the pan, swirling it around, you may have to do this several time depending on how old the pan is.... after several hours and/or when the oil stops being absorbed take it out and let it cool on the stove with any leftover oil in it. Now you can cook in it; I recomend just using fatty foods to begin with like bacon and sausage - avoid tomatoes or other acidic foods, that strips your seasoning. Right after you have served food out of it, rinse it under running water and put right back on the burner you were using - turn it off.... this evaporates the water from rinsing and dryes the pan (you dont ever want it to sit with water in it.
Eventually, your pan will get to where you can cook eggs or potatoes in it with almost no oil. Your pan becomes non-stick over time. Once you have a well-seasoned pan, you can cook tomatoes ect. in it occationally and it actually helps you get that 'iron' from your pan because the acidity strips a more out than other foods.
Because your iron requirements go up in pregnancy, but iron pills are hard to absorb and cause constipation, switch to using cast-iron cookware everyday even before you are pregnant. Not only is cast iron cookware some of the best health-wise, it is also some of the best chef-wise - so enjoy and use for generations to come!