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My current craving is.....

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JambalayaCodfishPie · 26/11/2011 11:19

Wotsits. Lovely fakey cheesy Wotsits.

Whats yours?

:)

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Vale · 02/12/2011 14:13

I am pregnant now, first trimester, and I crave walnuts with raisins.

I like to eat them together, I like the flavours combination, the sweet of the raisins with the slight bitter flavour of the walnuts.

surfmama · 02/12/2011 14:30

hick i have had chicken pie (cold) with pickled onions, hotdogs (luckily found the taifun ones in waitrose not that I don't eat meat, just not what's in normal hotdogs!) with lots of mustard and tom sauce, hot chocolate with cream, and complete aversion to green vedge which is a bummer as I grow my own and normally eat 3/4 plate of vedge with my din dins but alas not at the mo! Good multi vits on board though!

MrsCog · 02/12/2011 16:11

I'm 26+3 and expecting a DS - The main things I fancy is cheese, in almost any form, sweet potato, and mango. I've completely gone off chocolate blegghh even though it used to be my favourite treat!

Apart from the cheese, sweet potato and mango though, I'm finding it really difficult to fancy anything - even though I'm hungry :(

Traceymac2 · 02/12/2011 16:46

I just cant stop eating full stop! The stodgier the better. In the third trimester of my previous two pregnancies I couldn't stop eating ice cubes, I'd have a whole tray in one go, one after the other, munching them I spent 3 wks in hospital on my first and my dh brought them in daily in a lunch box. As soon as the babies were born the craving was gone.

mammanetta · 02/12/2011 17:26

I only craved sleep zzz...

SwanseaMum · 02/12/2011 17:44

Umm not so much cravings I guess but I am currently living on pickled onion space raiders, fanta and gingernut biscuits.
They are the only things that dont make me feel sick lol. Early days yet.

PrincessOfWails · 02/12/2011 19:14

It was salad cream. And I'm not pg but still go a bit mad for it. I never bought it before!

capecath · 02/12/2011 19:28

Not pregnant now, but when I was... red meat, tomato paste, cheese (so bolognaise and pizza were incredible!), yoghurt, salty popcorn and late in pregnancy I craved coke.

PavlovtheCat · 02/12/2011 21:08

DD - no realy cravings as such, but the odd desperate need for a praline flake. god knows why, they are actually revolting.

DS. lemon/citrus/peanut butter on crumpets at 2am. But my real craving was for smell. I was obsessed, utterly obsessed with Dettol. I suffered horrendously with HG and for some reason I think it helped abate some of the feelings of sickness. not often though, and not when mixed with garlic smell (bad memory recall). But. I would clean and clean and clean the kitchen over and over. I washed the walls with it, the skirting, sides, kitchen doors, floor, bathroom floor, bath, toilet, sink, taps, etc etc - the house was spotless and smelled divine. DH on the other hand was very unimpressed with his home smelling like his old boarding school Grin and struggled to enter the kitchen where I had made camp. I was also obsessed with hand cleaning liquid, but not the average gel, the hospital stuff oh I can so remember how satisfied with life I felt after sniffing my hands after cleaning with it. i stole a bottle to take home with me on one occasion. The midwife thought I was nuts, and at one point told me off (I was quite embarrasing with it). But I Simply Could Not Help it. I also liked the Green/Blue Cif spray but due to it costing the earth, it was substituted easily with the dettol.

PavlovtheCat · 02/12/2011 21:11

Apples are a natural anti-emetic so maybe some of you who craved apples did so for your body to naturally aleviate feelings of sickness?

mummyNOsinging · 02/12/2011 21:34

dry cornflakes. Out of the box and by the handful. DH telling me he can hear me trying to crunch quietly from the lounge.

lookout · 02/12/2011 21:37

Ds is now 8 weeks, but during whole pregnancy i ate my weight in snack size pork pies. Not my proudest culinary moment, but hey ho.

They were amazing Grin

MumblesUk · 02/12/2011 21:52

Icecubes with both DS and DD; DH used to get so annoyed with the sound of me crunching! Crisps with DS, flapjack with DD. Also wanted milk when I can't normally face drinking the stuff, and went off chocolate :)

slimyak · 02/12/2011 21:53

With dd1 it was general carbs all the way, with dd2 I ate my own body weight in pears, the only fruit I previously didn't like. Dd2 is now 10 months and I'm still enjoying the odd pear. I also had occasional need for nutella straight out of the jar, but I think that was because I was diabetic and my good behaviour would crack every now and again.

HugosGoatee · 02/12/2011 22:02

Grin at everyone's cravings! It's funny how they can be so specific.

Mine have been chocolate milk right from the start, now Mars Refuel drinks at a rate of 2 a day. They have protein and vitamins and minerals though so aren't too bad. Dairy in general - yoghurt, ice-cream, children's cereal with milk. Also salty crisps in first trimester, and mango and melon all the way through. Oh and doughnuts!

I threw several tantrums at not having access to food I wanted, or DH substituting items I'd specifically requested for something 'similar'.

NotnOtter · 02/12/2011 22:45

pizza express dressing....tomato soup for a week or so...spaghetti hoops for a week or so -i go off stuff i crave v quickly

jelly - jelly sweets anything jelly (expensive as i'm vegetarian)

cant stand tea!

wideawakenurse · 02/12/2011 23:33

Anything to do with limes here.

I think about them all the time.

stripeyZ · 02/12/2011 23:37

Pavlov - that makes sense. I still have awful 24/7 nausea at 23 weeks Sad

Apples are probably the only food I actually fancy. Everything else I have to force down.

Alligatorpie · 03/12/2011 05:23

I have recently become obsessed wit fried egg sandwiches on multi grain, with ketchup of course - but at least it is better than chocolate and crisps!

DiffedAgainDachs · 03/12/2011 07:44

I have a new craving. Krispy Kremes. Can't stand them usually, but now I can't eat enough of them! They're all I want for breakfast and if I get hungry during the day...

clarey2311 · 03/12/2011 08:09

Am nearly 34 weeks pg and cravings have varied across trimesters, but to my disappointment and utter shame, none of it has been healthy. 1st - bowls of Smash with mounds of butter and HP sauce whipped in, plus Heinz spaghetti hoops (cold from the tin in secret at desk at work) and chicken and mushroom pot noodles were all I wanted or could indeed, keep down. And I so wanted to be on the salads and broccoli! Morning sickness lasted until 24 weeks. Couldn't look at a piece of fruit or veg until then and couldn't keep milk/yoghurts down. Moved on to buttery marmitey toast for a few weeks. Appetite for veg has just come back and dinner last night was a huge bowl of sprouts and mashed swede with black pepper. That's all I need for Christmas dinner - sprouts! All the way through I've craved melty or cheesy crisps like wotsits/monster munch/quavers/cheddars and fizzy drinks by the bucket load - really have to limit myself there as think it must be so bad for LO, but a Lucozade orange energy drip wouldn't go amiss Shock mmm...(swigs from bedside can and rustles for the cheddars)

growing3rdbump · 03/12/2011 11:50

When preg with DC3 I was obsessed with frozen raspberries, ice pops and ice. I would eat a pack of frozen raspberries each day and when they ran out I'd start on the ice!!!

justwantcheese · 03/12/2011 12:05

cheese cheese and more cheese,could eat for breakfast,lunch and tea.i have a little theory on cravings,my 1st dd all i wanted was fruit pastilles and sweet things, this one is all savoury and i'm convinced it's a boy.

does anyone agree- sweet for a girl or savoury for a boy?

justwantcheese · 03/12/2011 12:13

wonder why tea is so revolting when pregnant

Teladi · 03/12/2011 12:45

I got almost all through my pregnancy without any cravings, then at 35 weeks or so the ice craving started. It had to be ice cubes as well, ice lollies just weren't the same...

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