Meal ideas for nausea?

[Purpletopaz42]

I've been having all day morning sickness for 8 weeks now and I'm struggling to come up with ideas for meals, that won't make me feel sick. Just wondering if anyone has any meal ideas that helped during pregnancy? I'm struggling particularly for lunch and dinner ideas. Thank you

Also any drink ideas, I'm mainly just drinking water at the moment.

Honestly, there is no one-size-fits-all, so all you can do is try various foods to see how they make you feel. It's different for each person and for every pregnancy. Its hit and miss.
All the advice suggests five to six small mini-meals throughout the day.
Ideas for lunches:
Toast/crackers/plain popcorn/pretzels/bagel/rice cakes
A handful of nuts
Banana, orange or smoothie
Low fat Greek yogurt or frozen yogurt

I found cold food so much easier on the stomach than hot food. So for dinner I’d have:
Cold pasta with lean grilled chicken breast or steamed fish
Toasted bagel with low fat cream cheese
Plain baked potato
Luke warm chicken noodle soup
Super noodles
In terms of vegetables, I found butternut, carrots and peas to be the easiest.

For drink,try fruit-flavoured carbonated water or ginger beer or lemon and ginger tea. Jelly and ice pops could be easier to keep down whilst keeping you hydrated.

That's great, thank you for your help. Lots of great ideas, I particularly like the pretzel and popcorn suggestions, they sound nice and will give me a different snack. I'm also going to try eating cold food dinners to see if that helps. Many thanks

I could only eat chilli con carne and rice for six weeks when I was pregnant with DD1. I just fancied it one day, wolfed it down and it made me feel so much better. I had it for lunch and dinner every day.

With my second it was two weeks of avocados and bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar to dip in. Washed down with a glass of ice cold skimmed milk.

I would say that in the early days if there’s something you actually feel hungry about when someone mentions it or you see it then just eat it. Both times these funny “wants” got me through the worst and made sure I was eating something. Bizarrely they both stayed down when eating something like a chicken breast with veg came straight back up again.

I ate plain chicken and plain brown rice. I couldn’t cope with strong flavours or smells at all and didn’t like textures that were too extreme, so nothing crunchy or very soft or runny. The chicken and rice was manageable for me most days.

Keep your head up and focus on the end game. It seems like forever when you’re going through it but it won’t be long at all until you’re holding your baby and tucking into all your favourite foods again and feeling amazing.

I really fancied plain carby things or salty foods. Salt and vinegar crisps, olives etc to snack on. Chips with mayo and vinegar or gravy. Mcds chicken nuggets. I basically survived off beige foods 😂. And appletizer. Forgot it existed until I was pregnant and it was so good when I was dehydrated from being sick. Plus it's just fizzy apple juice so nothing nasty in it.

Ooh forgot for tea some nights I'd just have a ham or cheese sandwich and some crisps laid down in bed because it seemed to help not being sat up. Or some tuna pasta salad. Basically just keep trying little bits and see what works for you. Don't worry it will pass and seem like a distant memory. I remember posting when my sickness was really bad and being in complete despair but I'm 31 weeks now and can barely remember it!!

I found that ginger and garlic are miracle cures for nausea, both morning sickness and mega hangover.

So both in a stir fry, garlic in soup/chilli/bolognaise etc, both in a curry or salad dressing.

Hope the morning sickness stops soon.

Would you fancy a simple chicken broth? That would be easy to digest and help keep you hydrated. If you manage that, perhaps try plain chicken and rice next?
Toast with honey, plain pasta with just a dusting of grated cheese, porridge are all worth trying.

I hope you start to feel better soon, it must be so distressing for you.

Not a meal suggestion, but ginger tea worked for me. I usually get Pukka Three Gingers, but any brand that makes herbal tea blends will have some kind of ginger. Also ginger ale (Schweppes Diet for me, but some people say the sugar in the regular version also helps).

Also, if you eat sweets, look for soft ginger chews - easy to carry a bag around with you and the effects are quite fast!

Jacket potato! With cheese.
I went to a nice restaurant for a family meal around 8 weeks and that's all I ordered! 😂

Salty extra hot fries were all I could stomach !

Living off rich teas.
Toast
Bran flakes
Rice pudding
Porridge
Lentil and veg soup
Spaghetti hoops
Warm ribena sipped slowly
Warm water or weak tea
Sometimes a warm milk with tspn of sugar

I’m 11 weeks and pretty much living on soup, spaghetti hoops on toast and cream cheese bagels!