Meal ideas for sickness???

[GirlCroosh]

I'm doing my online shop for next week and I don't want to eat anything

I can keep things down, as long as it's bland. Only actually vomiting a couple of times a week.

Ideas please?? Ideally v easy to cook so I'm not lingering over a smelly stove.

YES! Evenings were out for me too. Downside is that on waking for my 2am wee I then could barely sleep due to being RAVENOUS

Thank you!!! I also find evenings the worst. I've gone for many, many jacket potatoes, pasta pesto, all the bread products and the fancy noodles someone recommended.

All I could eat in the first stage of my pregnancy was white bread rolls with "naice" cooked sliced chicken. And a glass of milk. I wasn't into anything coloured or heavily flavoured.

toast and cream cheese
digestive biscuits
orange juice
alpen with a sliced banana
grapes
rye bread with avocado and tomato
Heinz tomato soup

Sometimes I can eat normal food but only if someone else cooks it, out of smelling range. Really fancy some tinned pears now!

Just ate a crème caramel. Feels like a slightly adventurous one, but it went down.

Had yellow pepper dipped in hummus for dinner. I can heartily recommend you do not get one with onion in.

I found in the full grips of morning sickness/progesterone poisoning that anything processed, made of chemicals, or generally considered to be ‘not real food’ was the best really.

Microwave Chicago town mini pizzas for example, probably the most processed food you can find! Salad? Good god, no!

I never managed ginger tea, but dry American ginger ale (get in in the mixers section at supermarket, just for an additional cruel twist) or ice cold tonic water or bitter lemon.

Hope you’re feeling better Op, those days were so miserable.

Chicago Town Pizzas? Oh I could smash one right now.

I’m only 8 weeks gone but I had to put my “Baby on Board” badge to get the train today as my morning yoghurt made me feel so sick I’ve nit really had anything to eat and feel a bit faint.

Yep, microwaved too! It’s amazing what the body can build a baby out of! In all seriousness though, a selection of ready meals is a good idea as you can just grab the select few that don’t instantly repulse you and then can eat when you fancy them.

I feel for you all going through it, it’s one of the main factors in our deciding not to have any more babies.

(There’s lots of articles online about experiments where they’ve injected healthy men with progesterone and monitored what it does to them to recreate HG- it won’t cure your sickness but it might cheer you up! - I’ll see if I can find one )

I ate chips everyday, sometimes on bread. Just carbs carbs carbs in the first trimester.

I've been lucky myself - never had the sickness nor feeling just tiredness but I have got waaaaaay of foods. It's not that they make me sick just have no want for them. my favourite was always Brocolli - every meal we have it, but now can stand it, just don't want it. It's weird how we change so much. Ice lollies are my saving grace for when I feel warm, no drink seems to be good enough

I lived off chocolate digestive biscuits and diluted apple juice.

I really craved salt, and lived on crumpets with butter, plus the occasional pack of Super noodles! Not the healthiest, but it didn’t do any harm.

@thenewaveragebear1983 please please please can you find that article?! My partner is sympathetic but I'm not sure he really understands the true horror of feeling like this! I had to give him a bit of a bollocking last night for not pulling his weight, I was like please could you pick in the washing and he said well why can't you do it and I was like BECAUSE I'M CARRYING YOUR BABY AND HAVE BEEN FEELING LIKE UTTER SHITE FOR 6 WEEKS AND IT'S GETTING WORSE AND I WANT TO DIIIIIIIIIIIE AND YOU JUST NEED TO LOOK AFTER ME AND PICK IN THE FUCKING WASHING!! He picked in the washing.

@girlcroosh really feel for you, right there with you. Anything I fancy seems to change pretty quickly, one day I'll love it, the next it make me gag. Tomato soup used to be so good, now i feel sick just thinking of it.

Fairly consistent ones though are:

Cheese (weird how so many people find cheese good for their nausea)
Buttered toast with marmite
Wotsits/quavers/discos/snackajacks and any other punchy dirty crisps
Lime squash
Fruit
Cold crisp salad with a sharp dressing
Cheesy beans on toast
Chili con carne/curry and rice

Seems I like quite punchy flavours, feels like they cut through the nausea. Eating has def got easier, nausea has got worse :(

Ginger does nothing for me, and if one more person tells me I should be consuming it I will punch them in the face.

I got chicken type ready to cook from fresh meals - something you could bung in oven. Like chicken wrapped in ham. Sweet potato chips good (homemade) rice pouches in microwave. Couldn’t stand being in kitchen

Mash upset tummy

Cheese and crackers good
Mini cheddars
coco pops!

Steer clear of spicy or greasy food it will make you feel worse

Noodella I have searched and I can’t find it! I know I read it when I was pregnant with HG, I’m pretty certain the experiment was deemed unethical (poor poppets) and maybe that’s why google won’t bring anything up?
Sorry!

All I can find is this ridiculous ‘couvarde’ syndrome (where men feel the pregnancy, including the sickness) and all I can say to that is: No you bleeping don’t. Until the smell of tap water makes you vomit, you can’t understand HG. Now off you fuck.