My dp would like to ask you all....

[tammybear]

What was your cravings when you were pregnant? and did you have any bizarre ones? And also why do pregnant women get cravings? (i dont know why either)

We were talking about when I was pregnant and he asked what my cravings were (curry), which is why he is being nosey! Thanks xxx

Chocolate - esp Terry's Chocolate Orange

Canned peaches.

Double Deckers (chocolate not buses )
Always had to eat the top first

Tomato Soup with cheese butties dipped in.
Ice pops but I had to crunch them
Any kind of milk shake or flavoured milk (pints of the stuff)

double chocolate chip muffins (so very healthy). I suspect 'cravings' were just a good excuse in my mind to have them though.....
hated the smell of coffee and grilled meat, and the smell of laundry!!

lol Thomcat, you just reminded me I had a craving for milk too. I even use to go into McDonalds and buy about 3 or 4 of their cartons of milk cos I was desperate for some and had to drink out of the cartons cos their straws were rubbish! How cool did I look!

branston pickle - and yes I could tell if it wasn't branston and no it wasn't the same!! Also made dh drive round national trust places one Sunday in search of a proper homemade National Trust style chocolate cake. When I got it I didn't want it anymore and he very nearly left me there.

couldn't stand the smell of lamb tho and would physically shudder at wet lettuce. Odd time being pg.

Ice or anything really cold. Didn't care what the weather was like, just had to eat really cold stuff. I also loved fish and seafood, which I carried with me post birth. My 'top smell' was the fresh fish counter in my local Tesco !

I was told by sooooooo many people that my ice craving meant I was having a boy. DD is now 2y 3m !!!!

ds - caesar salad (the prepacked bag ones from Asda were the best) and crunchies (possibly why I put on 4 stone
dd - custard, eggs, satsumas

spicy tortilla chips..........WITH GRAPES!!

Ooh! I've been reminded now. The smell of cheese and onion crisps - I couldn't even bear to look at the packets. Anyone eating them in the pub was banished to another table out of sight. Weird!! Love them normally.

My staple diet was iced donuts for the first trimester as they tasted the same on the way up as on the way down (and nothing stayed down). After that just couldn't get enough fruit or yoghurt.

I spent at least a fortnight looking for those little round coconut tea cakes, as I HAD to have them. Eventually found some while on hols in Cornwall in a tiny village and bought the lot, including the jar they were in. Keep it now as a piggy bank for dd and a reminder of how nuts I went when carrying her.

LOL at sopme of the bizarre and disgusting concoctions on here. Aren't we weird! Well actually I wasn't just milk crazy but some of you are! LOL

ds1 fullfat milk
ds2 oranges
dd fresh cream cakes, particulaly cream horns with jam and chocolate (my hips have never been the same

steak- literally still alive with the blood running around the plate so i could dip my chips in it!

citrus fruit
tinned tomatoes
red meat in first trimester

and I said chocolate and crisps, but actually it was just a good excuse .

my tummy still hasn't recovered!

This is a fairly strange one.......

sand and stones ?

yes I know its disgusting and yes I did eat sand !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it happened with both pregancies I used to sterilise the stones in the avent then crunch on them.

I am now slinking away in embaressment

lol linniewith2 , did you like the taste of it after you ate it?

im so glad i started this thread

strangely enough it has a slightly metalic taste but I realy liked the crunching and the texture ! (lost a filling through it though lol)

My neighbours must of thought I was mad as I would go out late at night and search the gravel driveway for just the right sort of stone to crunch, even I think I'm mad reading this back !

I have now been free of my sand/stone addiction for almost 5 mnths lol

crab sticks dipped in apricot jam!!

Fresh pineapple (always hated it before pregnancy0, fresh orange juice, starbuck fruit frappacino, loads of ice and brans flakes with icey icey watered down milk always resulted a in a fantastic hearty belch each morning - extremely satisfying.

water water and more water every time!

Ah well now if you want to talk smells when pregnant..............the smell of the dishwasher halfway through a cycle...........mmhmmm