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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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PrincessSarene · 30/05/2019 19:18

Chips and baked beans 😊

Jeffjefftyjeff · 30/05/2019 19:19

Beige stuff, maybe with the odd pea thrown in. Macaroni cheese (ready meal as I couldn’t bear smell of cooking), Nairn’s oatcakes, potato hash brown things in sandwiches, crackers and mild cheese, mashed potatoes beans and grated cheese.

Passthecherrycoke · 30/05/2019 19:20

Toast. I cried for hours once when DH cooked a shepherds pie because he felt I wasn’t getting vitamins and the whole house smelt like it. I swear, I can still remember the stress of that smell. I nearly went to my mums house to sleep the night I was so upset. MS sucks

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toasterstrudle · 30/05/2019 19:20

I ate anything that I possibly could and then inevitably went off it the next day 🙄 I ate potato smilies, dry baguette, baked potato with cheese, crackers, that was about it!

Get your husband to do some batch cooking at the weekend and put it in the freezer for your other kids or just buy ready meals, I could not tolerate cooking or the smell of cooking at all! Really feel for you, it's awful.

Secondstartothergt · 30/05/2019 19:21

Supernoodles, and sushi (think it was that ginger that comes with it). And anything old school comfort food like cottage pie (from the supermarket. Anything ‘authentic’ without encumbered just didn’t cut it).

Secondstartothergt · 30/05/2019 19:23

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DockerDre · 30/05/2019 19:29

Packet soups. The Knorr ones you have to simmer for 5 minutes. I think it's the salts. Which then contributed to the heartburn.

Other than that, sausage sandwiches!

Pasta with green pesto.

A lot of cornflakes.

mizu · 30/05/2019 19:29

Anything carbs based. But can't really remember much from those days. Do remember a couple of times begging my sister to come and cook as I couldn't even go into the kitchen. She cooked sausages and mash both times which I was desperate for and wolfed down only to feel sick again.

Awful few weeks. I remember counting the days down to 12 weeks when I thought it might get better - it did at around 14/15 weeks - the days really dragged.

Ice lollies helped a bit too.

WillYouDoTheFandango · 30/05/2019 19:38

Salt and vinegar crisps. Two tuna sandwiches a week (bloody mercury). One mouthful of pasta in tomato sauce or vegetable lasagne a day to shut DP up before heaving and throwing the rest away. The annoying thing was I was starving until I smelled or saw food.

I have only one DC. There’s no way I could have cooked so you have my sympathy.

user1483387154 · 30/05/2019 19:43

Cheese and salad wraps. That was it for about 10 weeks

scaryteacher · 30/05/2019 19:43

Plain boiled brown rice with grated cheese on top.

MsSquiz · 30/05/2019 19:52

I've had morning sickness since I was around 5 weeks and I'm now 10+3. I also had the added bonus of having dental implant surgery at 5 weeks so I couldn't eat hard or crunchy foods until last week so that had all ready salted crisps and crackers out of play!

I've lived on mashed potato, fizzy water and ice lollies! It's been horrendous! One day I had a huge craving for cottage pie and spent the whole cooking time retching from the smell! (I did manage to eat it that evening though!)

Blondeshavemorefun · 30/05/2019 20:56

Serious hg here

Struggled to eat and threw up what I did

Tho

Fried egg on bacon on bread with ketchup stated down

Twins?? Runs and hides

Frogbull · 30/05/2019 21:01

Crunchy nut cornflakes.

thegreatcrestednewt · 30/05/2019 21:03

Carbs - mainly pizza and crisps.

splishsplashsploshsplishsplash · 30/05/2019 21:05

Chow menu supernoodles every night for about 3 weeks , it was all I could eat!

Orchidflower1 · 30/05/2019 21:16

Fruit pastilles - but only rowntrees in the tubes NOT supermarket own as dh came home with a bag full of Tesco finest and I cried yep cried because they didn’t taste the same!

I had hg and lived on sweets, lemonade and plain biscuits until about 21 weeks the beige stuff until term.

Hope you feel better soon op.

Fairyjuice · 30/05/2019 21:19

Thanks ladies I'm surprised at the amount of fellow supernoodle cravers 😂 I've read all suggestions and none have caused heaving (and some actually sound good!).

So basically should try and convince dh to batch cook for kids while I live off baked tatties and noodles Grin Roll on 16 weeks.

Blondes Twins 🙀🙀🙀

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PinguForPresident · 30/05/2019 21:20

Salt and vinegar crisps. Literally the only thing I could choke down til 16 weeks. Except one mad day where I craved KFC soooo hard. I never eat junk food, but I was desperate so I made my husband go out and get some. Except we were under a foot of snow at the time and KFC wasnt open. I cried.

He got it for me the next day. By which time I'd gone off the idea so just sucked a couple of chips.

VincentVanGoughandhisear · 30/05/2019 21:22

Nothing!

I tried to eat a big breakfast and lunch because I couldn't stomach food after about 2 o'clock!

vampirethriller · 30/05/2019 21:22

Tuna sandwiches and watermelon.

Popsicales · 30/05/2019 21:23

McDonald’s, Chinese takeaway and sausage and mash made by my mum! I couldn’t open the fridge without vomiting in my first pregnancy with DS. McDonald’s actually really helped!

PinkSpring · 30/05/2019 21:24

I am currently suffering with HG again (second) and I am living off crap. There is so much I cannot stomach that it changes day to day.

Currently living on toast, salty chips and orange juice or lucozade.

If I fancy it, I am at least trying to eat it but more often than not, it comes back up and then goes on the list of things I don't want to even look at.....

Heymummee · 30/05/2019 21:25

I ate sausages, biscuits and fruit for weeks. Literally the only things that didn’t make me throw up. Then eventually when I felt better I ate a lot of chicken, broccoli and carrots. And chocolate. Couldn’t get enough chocolate.

AudTheDeepMinded · 30/05/2019 21:27

fillet of fish meal and really sour lemonade (think Sicilian or old fashioned greenish one). Lived on that for weeks!