What are you eating?

[justhayley]

Hiya I'm 28 weeks and since becoming pregnant hardly ever feel hungry! I'm worried my baby isn't getting enough food - don't think I'm getting 2,000 calories some days let alone an extra 2-300! If my body needed more do you think I'd start getting hungry? I'm forcing myself to get meals in at the moment :( it's unlike me I'm someone who loves my food - and lots of it lol.
My BMI was normal to start with - iv put on a stone and at last appointment my measurements were all fine - so baby is growing well but i don't want him to be hungry or go without!
What have you eaten today - yep I want your food diaries so I can get a rough idea if I need to try fit more food in, or perhaps I just ate too much pre pregnancy and am normal now lol.

Thank you xxx

So far today(currently 3pm) iv had
muller yoghurt
French bread toasted with strawberry jam & cheese on top
A kit Kay chunky
French bread with cheese & cucumber on top dipped in humous

Now deciding between another muller or a hot chocolate.
Deff must get some veg inside me at dinner!

So far today, one black coffee with two sugar, one glass of cloudy apple juice and two pieces of white toast with jam and peanut butter.

Not good, nor very much

BUT! In my defence * ALERT! Stealth boast approaching!! * i'm going out to dinner at Chez Bruce at 7.30 so I'm 'saving' myself for their culinary delights which will include dessert!

Today I've had

2xbowls cereal
2xtoast

2xmini pizzas
2xbags of skips

2xrice crispy cakes.

Everything's in twos today!

Having Scampi, Chips and Peas for tea - just the one portion!

Today I've had:
Bacon and egg sarnie for brekkies, de-caf coffeee and some blueberry yoghurt

Quesadilla for lunch

and having roast lamb for dinner

Doing much better today than yesterday, when my diet consisted mainly of chocolate.

Bad again today!

Breakfast: Bran flakes with skimmed milk. Banana. Glass of pineapple juice.

Snack:Beanscene skinny hot chocolate and piece of victoria sponge.

Lunch: 3 wholemeal rolls (they were quite small) with cream cheese and smoked salmon.

Snack: Some Caramel Chewy Ben and Jerry's. (quite a large portion of 500ml tub) :(

Dinner: Some olives and a glass of pineapple juice.

All meals punctuated with water, Pregnacare, and iron tablets (as usual).

I need to kick my arse very soon. Need a veg boost.

Really thought I was doing well today until I started typing...
So breakfast was 2 yogurts and 2 apples with orange juice and decaf tea.

Lunch was um.. 3 bacon rolls with loads of tomato ketchup and a few handfuls of dried cranberries.

Tea and homemade carrot cake muffin as snack.

Dinner was a Cajun pepper casserole with red rice and a lot of natural yogurt and um.......2 chocolate oranges (and not the bars) I did share a little bit but mostly I scoffed them all by myself. Oops

bonbon, Two chocolate oranges! That is awesome! The other day I had two coconut buns, one yumyum, a mars bar and a picnic, in between my normal meals, which were gargantuan! :) I may also have had some B & J's ice cream in amongst all that.

today was a better day...

one crumpet and porridge for breakfast and de-caf coffee
satsuma and kiwi

lunch was ham and cheese sarnie with miso soup
(and a packet of crisps)

apple

and homemade pie for dinner with salad
:o

God, I scoff more than all of you. Won't even list what I eat as I'm too embarrassed! (34 weeks)

Side note: I noticed that only one of you has mentioned oily fish. Omega 3s during gestation are exceptionally important for skin and brain development in babies. Lack of omega 3s are also linked to post-natal depression in mothers. So think about upping your fish quotas, ladies. If you can't stand fish, try flax oil on your cereal every morning.

yesterday:

breakfast:Toast and marmite
Brunch: packet of smoky bacon crisps
lunch: ham and wotsit sandwich
dinner: chicken kiev with roasted charlottes and salad
pudding: grapefruit with lots of sugar...

healthy

im craving carbs so badly !!!

Thanks for the tip kiwiinkits, does tuna count as oily fish? I've got that for lunch today.

Might have to find other sources as gone off fish a bit :(

Phew, i'm saved. Just read that other sources of Omega 3 include:
Eggs
Dark green veg
Walnuts, Brazil Nuts, Hazelnuts, Pecans :o
Sunflower and flaxseed oil
Sesame seeds

Oh, if you can only face eating pringles all day long then do as I do and take the pregnacare plus, which includes a capsule of 'pregnancy grade' omega oils... there are other brands available too. I think boots and superdrug probably do an own brand one.

Started this thread as i didnt feel like i was eating enough and had no appetite, a week later and thats def changed, I'm now hungry A LOT - reckon that may have something to do with reading all your food posts lol.

Yesterday I had:

Breakfast: bowl of frosties

Lunch: stir-fry with 3 fish fingers, 2 brown Pitta breads and humous (random but good)

Snack: Mullar yoghurt - ok 2

Dinner: 2 quarn burgers in buns with salad, and beans.

So far today it's been

A honey and vanilla bean smoothy,
2 croissants - one plain one chocolate
And a banana

Lots more to come I'm sure

I just keep wantin to eat Shepards pie!!! and only want hot dinners!!!! not interested in fruit at all :(

Bored in work but this thread just really cheered me up! Glad I am not the only one who is just so hungry. Poor DH doesnt get a look in with the sweet treats in our house!

Only 24 weeks.... diet today

Breakfast - bowl of special k with semi skimmed milk
Lunch - crackers and philly, plum, fruit corner yoghurt, cadburys creme egg
Dinner - some cheesy, meaty thing from tescos finest range with mash and veg.

Doesnt seem too bad until I am really honest with myself and add the multiple choc chip cookies I'll devour with a brew later, and the half packet of mini eggs I'll prob finish and maybe even the dairy milk which I told DH to hide, found and have been consuming without his knowledge!

Keep telling myself its all ok because I hardly ate a thing between weeks 10-16 (just havent stopped since!) whoops!

I have been really sick the last few weeks and am only really getting appetite back the last few days (am only 9 and a half weeks) but today so far I haven't done so badly and am hungrier now that I have read all the posts on this thread!

Today:

Breakfast - 1 x rice cake with nutella and small glass of OJ
2nd Breakfast - Sausage & Egg McMuffin (www.mumsnet.com/te/8.gif but REALLY wanted it!)
Lunch - roast beetroot and feta salad and a coke
Snack - 1 x Galaxy caramel

And dinner later will be a few crab claws (cooking them for hubby for romantic dinner) and some pasta with tomato and basil sauce.

Oops, that weird web address thing should have been a little embarrassed face!!

I have noticed that in the 3rd trimester I have become a human dustbin. After eating reasonably well in the first two. Still craving loads of fruit though.

Today's menu:

*breakfast - bowl of home made muesli with semi skimmed milk; slice of bread with butter & jam
*morning snack - m&s cranberry & cashew yoghurt bar, orange, banana
*lunch - cheese, tomato, cucumber sandwich on a seeded roll, packet of Tyrrell's mature cheddar & chives crisps (40g), packet of Sainsbury's melon & grape fruit salad, Cadbury's creme egg, orange
*afternoon snack - banana, half a Stoats porridge bar (date & fig); some more crisps (Kettle Chips - smokey barbecue flavour)
*dinner - home roasted vegetables

Today was a good day too :)

Breakfast - crumpets and porridge (again!)
Smoothie

snack - graze fruit box & Tuc crackers

Lunch - tuna salad, blueberry yoghurt

snack - mixed berries, satsuma and a packet of crisps

Dinner - M&S chicken chow mein - my fave, as a treat :o
(I'm sure there'll be chocolate in there later..! )

I have serious food envy over some of your meals ladies!!

Mine was not so great today...

Breakfast - Cornflakes with whole milk and sugar, coffee, multivits, 2 hm biscuits
Slept through lunch!
Tea - Veggie shepherds pie with veg.
Snacks - bag of cola bottles, big bar of fruit n nut, limeade

yesterdays food
breakfast - 2 toast with butter and jam + coffee
1 bottle cloudy lemonade
lunch - tuna sandwich + 2 x 1% fat cherry yogs
1 slice toast late afternoon

romantic meal
1 x crabcake on rocket with honey glaze
roasted seabass with new pots and green veg
melt in the middle choc pud with strawberries
GOOD OL M&S !!!!!

I think I need to up my fluid intake deffo not enough water going in

Today I had:

Breakfast - A buttered bagel and glass of OJ.

Teabreak - A bowl of banana and blueberries with yoghurt. Alpen bar.

Lunch - Two bagels with cream cheese.

Snacks - Two WW digestives and a WW caramel wafer.

Dinner - Baked potato and coleslaw with spinach and beetroot salad. Glass of OJ

Sipped water throughout the day and had a sneaky glass of diet coke. I hate fizzy drinks, but have had an odd craving for coke every now and again.

30 weeks

Breakfast: porridge with 1 per cent milk, cinnamon and dark sugar

Lunch: avocado, large slice of home-made bread (prob equivalent to 2-3 slices of bought pre-sliced bread); banana and small slice of bread with dulce de leche

Dinner: pasta with tomato sauce, olives and mozzarella, fish cake; cooked apple and rhubarb with a spoonful of ice cream; half a Japanese sweet similar to a pancake with bean paste in the middle.

Probably sounds very odd...

Today...

Porridge with jam, coffee, multivits
Leftover veggie shepherds pie with baked beans and bread n butter
3 hm biscuits, decaf coffee
Proper fish and chips from the chip shop
Haribo and limeade

Must eat healthier tomorrow!