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Bizarre craving for charcoal!

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Wallace · 22/05/2006 20:57

Don't ask me how I know that is what I want, I just know! What can I eat instead that will satisfy the craving?

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rummum · 23/05/2006 13:09

Carmenere I did the sponge thing too! NEVER mentioned it to anyone as I thought they would lock me up!
OH and Ice... loved to crunch ice

SaintGeorge · 23/05/2006 13:12

Chalk for me too - that was calcium deficiency, so I ate loads of cheese to make up for it. (I hate milk yuchhhhhh)

YellowFeathers · 23/05/2006 13:14

Oh Carmenere and Runmum!

At last I am no longer on my own.

I love sponges. I could sit all day and sniff and chew them.

Am no longer embarrassed by this

Wallace, how about some Ice?

Carmenere · 23/05/2006 13:34

Oh I wish I had known about mumsnet when I was pregnant as I looked everywhere for info about craving sponges and just thought I was weird. But now I know I'm not (or at least you 2 are too ).
I used to crunch ice cubes too rummum, I went through a huge bag from the supermarket one hot afternoon
YellowF are you pregnant atm? Or is the sponge thing permanent as I don't chew them anymore now that dd is 2

YellowFeathers · 23/05/2006 13:36

No am pregnant atm. 28 weeks. I had the same craving with dd too.
I remember one day aking my mum drive to Sainsburys to buy me a sponge She looked rather worried at the time

Do you know what, I havent got one atm either!

Carmenere · 23/05/2006 13:38

Well very good luck to you YF and enjoy the sponges (can't believe I've just typed that!!)

Albert · 23/05/2006 13:45

Actually charcole is one of the more common of the wierd craving IYSWIM. Go to a health food shop and buy some charcole biscuits. They are disgusting and black and probably exactly what you want! I only craved ice lollies when I was pregnant - how boring is that.

YellowFeathers · 23/05/2006 13:45

Am scoffing an ice pop now

jellyjelly · 23/05/2006 14:08

I did want to eat my stretchmark cream in the early days as it smelt so good. I didnt and justate turkishdelight instead but it didnt make me feel so good.

magnolia1 · 23/05/2006 15:44

When pg with the twins we had our dining room taken back to bare brick and I had terrible cravings for brick dust As in the dust that comes out when you drill a hole in the wall

And with our 1st daughter I wanted to eat cigarette ash (But I did not!!!!)

CarolinaMoose · 23/05/2006 15:58

god you lot are weird

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