To ask what your weird pregnancy cravings were?

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I've never been a fan of cucumber but I can't stop thinking about slices of cucumber with salt and lemon juice on.

I also keep biting cold lemons from the fridge, just bite into it and I'm satisfied 😂

And apple juice, I'm drinking a litre of apple juice a day and costing my DH £3 a time as I don't want the cheap one 🤦🏻‍♀️

Bubbles from green radox bubble bath. But they had to be eaten from the bath.

Also, the smell of steam. If there was a kettle on the boil, my nose would be next to it. My pores were amazing but I scalded my forehead a few times.

Grapefruit

Chewing bath sponges for me too

Dd1 all I wanted was McDonald's burgers. Normally eat very little red meat but couldn't get enough. Turns out I was very anemic.

Dd2 all I wanted was really cold crunchy salad with TONNES of salad cream. Cold vinegary goodness. No idea why.

My friend didn't crave a food but a smell. She could sit and smell a bottle of pine scented floor cleaner for hours.

Cherries - in January when only Waitrose stocked them and they were about £14 a kilo..............

Bakewell Tart with DS and KitKat with DD.

Babybel cheese. I would eat three a day. Can't fucking stand them now!

Another for crunching ice. Pint glasses of it. With a side of salted anchovies in oil. And basset"s licorice allsorts (Dd pregnancy)

Ds - porridge with tinned peaches.

Very cold fruit like peaches plums and apples. I couldn't get enough. I once stared so hard at an apple on my friends desk at work she just gave it to me. Fruity ice lollies.
Jacket potatoes with cheese and butter only. McChicken sandwiches. Very similar for both pregnancies.
I knew I was pregnant with second DD when I made myself a toasted brie and lettuce sandwich at 8am and then covered it in tabasco. Never done that before in my life.

Pens…I literally went round my work taking peoples nice pens. If they wrote nicely, I was having that pen. It was overwhelming and I would almost hyperventilate with excitement. I would either walk off brazenly with the pen or I would wait for them to leave the laboratory and then go to their bench and take their pen. My whole locker was full of my pen hoard. I was so pleased with it. I took them all when I left for maternity leave. I still have some 20 years later.

Litres and litres of milk
Watermelon with black olives at the same time

Also, I spent a month convinced that my fingers smelled strongly of garlic. My DH and friends had to repeatedly reassure me that they did not.

I had chewing sponges too. In both pregnancies. Kitchen sponges. Not necessarily with ice cold water but water. Biting them, chewing them, I really wanted to eat them but knew I couldn’t. The only food that sort of replicated what I wanted from them was curly leaf parsley.

I did have some more normal ones like apples and chocolate too

Not too weird but I craved spicy foods for breakfast and would often eat curry in the mornings- it help my sickness.

Crushed ice. Especially the type you get from a fast food place, not bothered about the drink, just wanted the ice to crunch. Both pregnancies were the same 🧊

Banana splits. I once rushed out to the car and drive into town about 10 minutes before the supermarket shut to buy bananas and vanilla ice cream. We bought a pregnancy test for DS2 when we went out for dinner and I found myself negotiating for a banana split…

Oranges. In all my pregnancies I wanted citrus fruit, but particularly oranges.

Malteasers, skittles, minstrels etc. Anything with a shell (sweets, not fish.) Crunchy red apples, lentil crisps and boiled sweets. With DD1. Also iced milk and fruit twist fanta

Hashbrowns (mcdonalds or hash brown fries in the air fryer), chicken nuggets and one particular b&m sweet chili sauce with the other DDs. Literally the only thing I could face for the first trimester. And the round sausage patties from mcdonalds. I was only eating salad in the last 2 trimesters to make up for it!

Full fat milk straight from the fridge and drunk straight from the bottle. ( They were glass pint bottles back then ) If it was in a glass I didn't want it.
Tinned chopped tomatoes cold, straight from the tin with loads of black pepper stirred in. If they were in anything but the tin or warmed up, I didn't want them.
Cornflakes, straight from the packet with no milk, just handfuls of dry cornflakes.
Coal. I must have eaten my way through half of the coal mine!

Full fat milk straight from the fridge and drunk straight from the bottle. ( They were glass pint bottles back then ) If it was in a glass I didn't want it.
Tinned chopped tomatoes cold, straight from the tin with loads of black pepper stirred in. If they were in anything but the tin or warmed up, I didn't want them.
Cornflakes, straight from the packet with no milk, just handfuls of dry cornflakes.
Coal. I must have eaten my way through half of the coal mine!!

Fish cakes with capers, lettuce and feta nearly every night, scampi fries, crab paste 😷

marmite and marmalade together on toast.

No cravings with the first.
Battered sausages from the chip shop with the second.
Thin crust pepperoni pizza with anchovies from Pizza Hut with the last.

Wait! I had forgotten about the pica with the second. I craved chalk.

My first pregnancy

Mc Donald's chocolate milkshake - it was thick creamy texture and coldness I think - other milkshakes just didn't hit the spot for that craving

Current pregnancy

Pickled onions
Lemons (literally lemon slices and a glug of lemon juice in all of my drinks)
Smoked haddock

These really made me laugh 😂 thank you for cheering me up when I needed it!

I was meal obsessed, so I had to have whatever I decided that day then i dodnt want that meal again for ages, I didn't have any normal weird cravings