Need ideas for lunch please - feeling v sick but need to eat!

[MarthasHarbour]

Title says it all really! I am 8+2 and feeling soooo sick. I didnt actually vom when pg with DS and havent so far this time, but i just feel like i am on a constant hangover..

Sooo, i had a bacon buttie for breakfast - which was lovely but it isnt sitting well

I would usuall nip out for a tuna, egg or cheese and ham sandwich, but i really dont fancy any of that. I dont want to keep eating crap but could fancy a greggs pizza slice but if i carry on like this i will end up the size of a house!!

Any suggestions welcome!

I found crunchy things were good during the sicky stage. What about some ryvita and philidelphia or something similar?

And a fruit salad afterwards.

Oh have the pizza slice. If thats what you can eat, then eat it. The carb-mania does calm down in a few weeks, promise.

Tuc crackers and Philly

Eat what you can. If that means Greggs pizza that's fine.

I was like you and couldn't face my usual sandwich lunch (still can't at 32 weeks!!).
For lunch I have been eating crackers/oatcakes & cheese, homemade soup, fruit & yoghurt. I have also had the odd pizza slice and cheese & onion pasty from Greggs - so if thats what you fancy, go for it (just not every day!)

bread sticks and a kit kat :)

funnily enough i have just been thinking about crackerbreads and that kind of thing so thank you all! i also think i could probably stomach philly but not normal cheese IYSWIM

crackers it is then! i may also finish off with a kitkat tiredmumma

OTOH i may just go for that pizza slice!!

Nel1975 i was supposed to bring in some home made soup this morning but when i got it out the freezer i did a face like this > !!

I have always found ready salted crisps a god send with hangovers (and I had quite a few!) and then discovered they worked very well with ms as well. Not the healthiest thing but they always settled my stomach and tasted lush!

I would also go with the crunchy food thing or even better fresh crusty white bread and butter, can you tell I love carbs? :)

oh i am so happy - i forgot i had a box of waitrose rough oatcakes in my drawer at work they are going down a treat!! normally they would be the dullest thing on gods earth to eat!

Hello! I had horrendous sickness for my first 14 weeks, I'm 16 now and still vomitting twice a day. I stay away from anything too flavoursome- garlic, onion, spice, fatty meats (sausage, bacon etc), rice (plain I know but it lies so heavy on my stomach!).

So lots of plain food! I feel like a toddler! Haha- toast, crackers & cheese, and now I can eat in the evenings I manage my veg and protein intake then (asparagus and broccoli sit nicely!) salmon, chicken, potatoes (I think I've turned into a potato actually).

Anyway good look on your food quest! Try and prepare it the night before (new potatoes and cheese salad/pasta with tomato sauce and tuna etc)

Ps I also agree with the eat whatever you want when sick- it won't last forever. Some days I'd just eat 2 bags of crisps and chunks of cheese washed down with lemonade! (but it's better than the alternative- nothing!)

Roughly half a packet of digestive biscuits is today's nutritious delicious!

loving all of these thank you!

I ate four packets of crisps yesterday. (Not all at the same time... honest!)

It stopped me feeling sick. But I still don't feel good about it!

I'm finding anything salty (like... crisps?) helps. Also I don't usually feel like eating fruit, but once I start it seems ok.

Good luck getting fed!

I am practically living off marmite rice cakes and nairns ginger oatcakes.

I have had oodles of oatcakes and a laughing cow triangle, followed by some pineapple and i have a kitkat for my afternoon tea

thanks everyone - i am keeping this thread for the next few weeks!

Im 8+1 and wondering the same thing. I had toast with cheese spread for breakfast but nothing since as i just cant face anything except orange squash. Ive lost 10lb so far!!!
I was never this bad with DD. Pfft.

Oooh OP your anti-vom lunch sounds good, including a KitKat for afternoon tea. I do fancy one, might run to the shop....

Yeah eat what you can. I am 20 weeks now and have put on 8-10kg so far - most of it in the first 10 weeks I am not the size of a house yet and this phase DOES PASS. Second trimester is really really good.

Seriously I would have been a murderous nauseous vomiting raging bloat-monster if I hadn't just eaten whatever I felt like.

Plain toasted bagels were always good for me in sicky phase. As well as yoghurt with tinned peaches (sweet and soft). Don't overdo the rice cakes, esp flavoured ones, as I did they might start making you feel sick (and made me nearly murder a woman on a long-haul flight who was eating them the row ahead of me when I was 9 weeks... DH had to forcibly stop me from getting up and yelling at the poor woman). Plain cooked pasta with plain simmered tomato sauce (make from tinned tomatoes) was my saviour too. Plain cooked pasta with chopped up yellow pepper and a bit of olive oil was sometimes all I could manage to make for my packed lunch.

Also baked microwave potato with butter and some cut up spring onions if you can handle. Or just the butter/some sour cream. This was my midnight nausea snack....

thanks everyone. i might have to take in jacket potatoes with butter and plain cheese i reckon. i could even have that every day..! maybe with oatcakes and spready cheese for breakfast. i will happily eat the same thing every day if it is anti-vom friendly!!

unfortunately the thought of pasta and tomato makes me want to hurl - and i usually love it!!

someone has just nipped off to make me a cuppa - i am soo excited about the kitkat. i havent spilled the beans at work yet

goingtorain i lost half a stone in my first trimester with DS

Salt and vinegar snack a jacks worked well for me as a lower cal/fat alternative when all I could stomach at lunchtime was salty starchy crispy goodness :-)

My nausea stopped at about 13 weeks - am now 15 and happily back on my normal lunches. Really hope this happens for you too in the next few weeks (although know sadly it doesn't happen for everyone).

Thanks to this thread I graduated onto oatcakes and marmite for lunch today. A step in the right direction me thinks.

Have just noticed that the oatcakes were best before Sept 2010