What did you eat during pregnancy?

[whatliketoeat]

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I'm 10 weeks and have been sick for 5 weeks. Keep getting asked what I feel like eating. I've gone off everything I'd normally eat and struggling to find things I want to eat.

So can you tell me, what did you crave or eat a lot of? Maybe it will tickle my fancy and I can finally eat something that doesn't make my stomach turn --grasping at straws.

I only ate -

Nectarines (nightmare at Christmas time)
Clementines (nightmare in spring)
Nutella
Breadsticks
Tortilla chips

Things I definitely couldn’t eat or smell cooking - beef, pork, lamb - sometimes chicken
Definitely no bacon

i used to feel nauseous and the last thing i wanted to do was eat, but if i ate, i felt better.... so lots of convincing myself to eat the toast and marmite!

Mountains of ginger biscuits and cups of milky tea.
Haribo
Boiled white rice with tinned tomatoes mixed in. Salt and pepper - I could not get enough of this all the way through x3 sometimes I'd sit with ready made poppadoms scooping it up too. I do not touch it non pregnant. Strange!

Ready salted crisps, weetabix, toast, Princes tinned curry (not something I would normally ever eat!), bananas.

I was sick throughout my entire pregnancy, I hope yours eases off soon!

Ritz crackers
Mini cheddars
TUC biscuits (are you seeing a theme here?!)
Microchips
Nutrigrain bars
And bizarrely, Magnums.

Crap mostly. Entire packets of jammy dodgers and Cadbury’s mini rolls. Amazingly I put on less weight with that pregnancy than with the second when I was being more careful.

Mashed potato and gravy, but only bisto best
Salt and vinegar squares
Fizzy cola bottles

Your FIL obviously has plenty of experience as a pregnant woman then🙄 ignore him. Plenty of women, myself included manage to eat pretty much nothing for the entire pregnancy due to hyper nemesis do it's normal not yo be able to eat much due to sickness at the beginning.
Give plain mashed potato a try or a rich tea biscuit. As long as you're managing a couple of glasses of water in sips throughoutvthe day and not loosing loads of weight id say you're ok. Give it time.
If his comments are bothering you tell him how ill you're feeling and that the modern views on how much pregnant women need to eat (Not eating for 2 etc) are different so please leave you until you feel better. If you feel really rotten and/ or are constantly vomiting you can get anti sickness meds from the GP

I drank Tango and sucked lolly ices.
I couldn't stand the smell of food , or the smell of tea and coffee or alcohol even on anyone else. I took to carrying nappysacks with me so I could vomit into something.
The commute was horrific.

Salt and vinegar squares (salt and vinegar anything really), chips and cheese and chicken. Lots of chicken. So much chicken. Oh, and those teddy bear cake bars. I loved them.

Essentially carbs, carbs and more carbs. I couldn't even look at a vegetable throughout my entire pregnancy, they made me feel physically ill. Them and baked beans.

I was sick until 26 weeks so I lived in toast, crackers and ginger biscuits.

Now I have GD so I’m not meant to have any of them 🙄

Samosas, cheese scones, peanut butter and marmalade sandwiches. I had terrible all pregnancy long sickness and couldn't eat much. Not desperately healthy but stodge always helps with my sickness

I went lactose intolerant so that wasn't fun.
A lot of junk food. Tuna mayo. Peaches. S&V crisps.

Chips from the kebab shop, bacon butties and salt & vinegar crisps. That was quite literally my diet throughout most of pregnancy. I had so many aversions to food, and no cravings!

I’m currently ten weeks and so nauseous but the only thing that helps is eating! What I want changes day by day. At the moment it’s wholegrain bagels with butter.
I’ve been wanting to eat pasta as well which I never normally eat, salad tastes like cardboard. The smell of bacon made me heave this morning.
I can’t get rid of the vile taste in my mouth and am eating so much fruit I’m worried about the sugar!
I was hoping the one bright side of feeling so rough would be not stacking on the weight but because I normally eat very low carb and now I’m eating all the carbs and not really moving (used to exercise five days a week) that’s not the case... worried I’m going to be the size of a house!
Salty foods are also really appealing and I’m not a big lover of salt normally

A common thread seems to be craving salt (and carbs). Can anyone explain why? What’s happening biologically that makes the body crave so much salt? Has a doctor ever explained it to any of you? I’m curious!

Everything, nothing was off limits

Horribly sick from weeks 8 to 18. Licking half cut lemons was the only relief from it! After 18 weeks I just ate as normal. No real cravings.

@whatliketoeat I survived on beige carbs. Everything was plain.

I also sucked on mints / sugar free pills when driving, or in public places and that (sometimes) stopped the vomiting because it got rid of that awful metallic taste you describe. You poor thing!

If it really is effecting your work you could see your doctor to try anti sickness tablets. I am pg with my second (had HG with my first and tried every anti emetic out there), this time I take Phenergan, which is a promethezine and actually prescribed to non-pregnant people / children to help with travel sickness. I take one tablet at night and that nipped my nausea / sickness in the bud this time (I should mention that is was much, much milder this time round though)

White bread cheese sandwiches in first trimester. Lemon squash in third trimester, think I had some vitamin deficiency thing going on to make me crave lemons.

I went off of salt in pregnancies, actually. Couldn't stand it, and ever since really don't like salty foods. But the vinegar & fat were ok hence S&V crisps.

Carbs: can't say I craved those, either, or found them more palatable.
3 pregnancies I did ok on garlicky spicy foods (humus & avocado). The other pregnancy garlick made me puke instantly. I couldn't even have ketchup. There were no foods that were good for me in 1st trimester pregnancy.

Usually I eat lots of veg but struggled with them in pregnancy.

Lots and lots of salt and vinegar squares. I craved salt - including drinks like OXO and Bovril.

Non edible? Bath sponges, Radox Stress Relief and Ice.

Oh and boiled potatoes with proper mature cheddar.

Galleons of milk, probably due to excess acid.