To ask...

[bumblebee39]

What were your weirdest pregnancy cravings

I say this as someone who just ate a tin of cold mushy peas followed by hot beef gravy with bread dipped in it...

Yuck!!

Mine was milk with either frazzles or wotsits

Salad cream, love it

Roast beef, I could happily have eaten it for breakfast

Cucumber. I could eat a whole one in a sitting. Thankfully it’s not calorific so I think I got off lightly!

Watermelon. Nothing weird except I started liking peanut butter which I always used to hate.

I say this as someone who just ate a tin of cold mushy peas followed by hot beef gravy with bread dipped in it...

I'd eat that not pregnant.
My cravings were ice cream, orangina and pancakes for the girls and bombay mix for DS. With DS I went off pancakes and still can't eat them.

Cold frankfurters wrapped in a slice of bread dipped in ketchup.

Sour worms, by the bucketload. I even had them in a little zip locked bag in a meeting once and someone pulled me up for it being “rude” not to offer them around - fuck off I’m pregnant, was my response.

Curry sauce and tomato sauce on either bread or chips 😂😂

Cleaning my teeth and spraying bleach at the same time oooh I loved it

Sour patch kids. I thought I'd burn a hole in my tongue with the sour powder on them, but I couldn't help myself.

Mine were ordinary by comparison: I liked opal fruits (sunburst) and the occasional fizzy drink, before pregnancy I never drank coke or lemonade and wasn't a sweet eater. I also started to eat roast beef which I hadn't previously liked, with sprouts and gravy!

I went off chocolate, cheese and coffee.

Apple's was my biggest one. This is weird because I'm oddly phobic of them. The idea of touching the skin or the crunch sends chills down my spine, but I really wanted them.

I have to get OH to cut them up for me at.first but the desire became strong enough to do it myself. Although I have a tick when I'm doing it, I make a shhh sound when I'm scared or uncomfortable. Makes for interesting viewing watching shhh an apple while cutting them.

Not bothered again now, certainly wouldn't willingly touch one.

Also chicken balls (from chinese) and ice cream but that's not that weird for me.

Ds1- Chicken pies! I had been a vegetarian for 6 years previously.

DD- Peanut butter and banana on toast- it's all I ate.

DS2- Wine gums...I can't stand these, never liked them bar whilst pregnant with him, he can't stand them!

Tomatoes. Even though the acid made my heartburn even worse!

Huge cup of stock i.e. Beef or chicken stock cubes diluted in hot water . . .

Luckily DP took over responsibility for cooking and made sure I regularly had fruit and vegetables!

You guys are all Waaaay Too normal!!

Me - you know the little wooden forks you get in the chippy? Chewing on them! No idea wtf that meant I was deficient in but then dh and friends took it on themselves to grab handfuls for me when in the chippy!

A friend loved the smell of house plant soil, another it was munching on small bits of charcoal (was ok'd by dr/midwife but she had a limit per day of X grams).

Pregnancy can be SO weird!

I'm veggie anyway but not squeamish but the smell of cooking meat triggered my morning sickness something awful! (Hence unable to go in chippy myself!)

Has been different everytime - (Although the bitter/sour thing always - tangfastics/ bitter lemon - and always sauces (mustards, horseradish, salad cream - with everything) - although they seem to get increasingly 'less healthy'...!

Gherkins (The massive ones) dipped in Tzatziki, Tomatoes with mint sauce.
Cold brussel sprouts with hot gravy
Cold Baked beans with mayo/salad cream...

This time round anything 'cheese and onion' - currently a pasty thing - and I'm a coeliac trying to follow a low fodmap diet - so with a lactulose/fibregel/actimel chaser if I haven't had been able to get a decent 'free from' alternative!....9 weeks to go - !

Not a craving but carrots tasted wrong to me the whole pregnancy, bitter and like I was eating soil. Oh and tea wasn’t right for a while either, pregnancy is indeed weird!

Plates of mushy peas. Not tinned ones but the dried ones you soak then cook for ever.

And craved the feeling on putting my hands in really hot water with lots of washing up liquid in it.... don't know why. Felt sooo good

Oh, that was the other. Spicy food. Not terribly remarkable but in my 34 years I’d never tolerated anything hotter than a korma and I went to madras overnight. It was such an injoke wirh friends and family that everyone was genuinely horrified I was eating hot curry.

I didn't have any cravings while pregnant - not one! I almost wish I did as it's a pretty boring "confession". My sister was really into the smell of diesel fuel though, she used to stop at the petrol station to take a good inhale!

Vinegar. I would order chips in a cafe but they were simply a vessel for consuming vinegar.
And ginger beer too. I had to really limit myself but wanted to drink it instead of water it tea or anything else.

I’ve just remembered with dc1 I wanted to eat sand. I fantasised about that grittiness in my mouth. The urge got too much until I actually did it. Not big mouthfuls or anything but just a little bit for that gritty sensation.