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What dinners did you eat when you had morning sickness?

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Fairyjuice · 30/05/2019 17:43

Urgh I definitely do not remember my ms being this bad with my other pregnancies. I have constant nausea that starts off tolerable but gets progressively worse throughout the day into the evening. I've tried eating little and often but it's not helping. I've grown an aversion to almost every food known to man except baked potatoes and supernoodles 🙈

And the worst part is that my husband is unable to cook (though he will try but needs a lot of instruction) and rarely gets home from work early enough to cook for the kids anyway.

I'm only 8 weeks FFS! Even the mere thought of cooking for other people sets me off. What can I cook that won't make me heave? and that there's a slight possibility that I may actually want to eat

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SophieLMumsnet · 30/05/2019 17:51

Honestly, would just eat whatever you can keep down. It was trial and error for me - would often cook something, then not be able to eat it.

I largely lived off chips and pasta!

feebeecat · 30/05/2019 17:51

I didn't. Couldn't keep anything down, especially towards end of the day as I was too tired. Weirdly, in the 3.5 second window when the nausea eased off, I ate plain noodles. Really quick to cook & they were enough. Later, got a lot more adventurous, moved onto plain pasta. Plain anything really, mostly carbs.
DH was also fairly incompetent in kitchen, but I found the threat of imminent starvation spurred him on. A handy skill following the birth.
Congratulations Flowers

CigarsofthePharoahs · 30/05/2019 18:38

Fried egg and chips. I craved eggs but it had to have a runny yolk and oven chips as I could keep down the stodge.
Everything else made me puke, the healthier it was the more likely I'd puke.

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Disfordarkchocolate · 30/05/2019 18:39

Clear vegetable soup
Plain boiled rice
Honeydew melon
Again and again and again, apart from one random evening, I ate curry.

VanillaLatteAndCake · 30/05/2019 18:40

Baked potato (microwaved, less effort!) with beans & cheese. Even that felt like a huge buffet at times. I'm now out the other side and feel very hungry!

thenightsky · 30/05/2019 18:40

the healthier it was the more likely I'd puke.

Ahaha... yes, me too. I craved and mostly lived on Chinese take away... but only chicken fried rice with a gallon of soy sauce. Annoying because the Chinese takeaway was 7 miles away!

EvenLess · 30/05/2019 18:41

Following this. Chicken and fish making me 🤢 and only seem to fancy pasta and salt and vinegar crisps. Nearly 8 weeks and going on holiday next Saturday, can't say I'm not apprehensive...

Juicyfrooty · 30/05/2019 18:44

Rice krispies and kfc mini fillet burgers (not together)

8 weeks was peak time for my morning sickness and it eased of around 16-18 weeks

cranstonmanor · 30/05/2019 18:52

I'm only 8 weeks FFS!

Statiscally for most women it's worst around 9 weeks so it might get better (or just not too bad) in a week or two.

I ate whatever DH wanted me to cook. I didn't care what we ate, as long as it didn't have any herbs or sauce or preferably not any taste at all. You could try making dinners that you can eat two days in a row like a simple cottage pie or an oven dish with slices of tomatoes, grilled aubergines and mozzarella in a little bit of pasta sauce (jar).

Haworthia · 30/05/2019 18:53

Baked potatoes and Supernoodles sound perfect to me! Bland carbs all the way.

MrsJonesAndMe · 30/05/2019 18:54

Red Pringles and blue Powerade Envy

Sympathy and Flowers for you

hedgehoglurker · 30/05/2019 18:54

Quiche

M3lon · 30/05/2019 18:55

devon custard....nothing but devon custard for a month...till I couldn't keep that down or water either, for that matter. Then a nice little stay in hospital.

expatchouli · 30/05/2019 18:58

I ate a lot of plain pasta.
I would advise you not to eat mashed potato made from a packet.

spacepoodle · 30/05/2019 18:58

Chicken in breadcrumbs, vegetable rice (from a packet), Super Noodles, chips. Anything beige! Later it progressed to spicy food cravings which was fantastic for my permanent, crippling heartburn.

Salad and vegetables were firmly off the menu.

riotlady · 30/05/2019 19:00

Plain pasta with cheese, ham and cheese toasties. The blander the better!

KnitFastDieWarm · 30/05/2019 19:02

Fish finger sandwiches.
I was off work for eight weeks and was still vomiting at 28 weeks. I feel your pain Sad

InMyOwnParticularIdiom · 30/05/2019 19:04

Jacket potato with cheese and beans (at the worst, just a plain potato)

Also liked plain porridge, bananas, marmite on toast. Plain oat biscuits. White bread roll.

Went completely off meat and protein.

coffeeaddiction · 30/05/2019 19:05

Chips with a shed load of salt and vinegar , mash carrot and swede with lots of gravy

Not very healthy but it's all i could stomach

soundsystem · 30/05/2019 19:06

Just carbs here. Mostly potatoes. And salt and vinegar crisps (which I appreciate are also just potatoes).

So boring.

DorothyBastard · 30/05/2019 19:06

Baked potato with butter
Tinned plum tomatoes on toast
Nigella’s marmite pasta

Starrynights86 · 30/05/2019 19:07

Apples and peanut butter toast using very plain white bread.

aimingfor2019 · 30/05/2019 19:13

When it was really bad it was jacket potatoes or plain pasta, sometimes with salad dressing on.
Once it became less constant it was just whatever was quick as I could cook and eat it before the nausea came back.

Crunchymum · 30/05/2019 19:14

My nausea got worse with each pregnancy.

By DC3 it was whatever I could tolerate the thought of. Often just plain carbs. Pasta with a bit of seasoning, potatoes (jacket or new) with butter, rice with salad cream. It was always hit and miss whether by the time I'd prepared whatever carby delight I'd actually still fancy it.

Never, ever couldn't manage Kettle Chips though Grin

mindproject · 30/05/2019 19:17

I never had any morning sickness and I wasn't sick once, but there were a few things I could not eat throughout my pregnancy - namely Sunday dinner, anything too sweet and anything fried. I lived on vegetables, salad, quiche and bowls of cereal and still gained nearly 5 stone.

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