Eating well in pregnancy

[Maddis136]

Hi ladies
I'm after some meal ideas if you can help?
In my third trimester with horrible indigestion and exhaustion. So, cooking has zero appeal to me at the moment.

Any ideas for speedy but nourishing evening meals much needed.

Thank you! xx

Tuna pasta is a fave when I've no time or inclination to cook anything.
Tuna, tomatoes, cold pasta, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Job done. I also really love it with avocado and lettuce thrown in.
My dh's son has it with mayo, and I guess you could spice it up with some chili flakes too if you wanted.

Another fave is baked sweet potato with tuna and brocoli.

Also, in my book, there is absolutely nothing wrong with breakfast for dinner (porridge or weetabix in my household with a bowl of fruit added on the side), I think I had that probably way too many times in both my pregnancies. Poor dh probably thought I'd forgotten how to cook 😂

I love my air fryer right now. I chuck some veggies in, then remove the spinny thing and put whisked egg in. Few mins later and it's a lovely omelette.

I've been roasting veg then shoving in a quickly made tomato sauce and eating with pasta.

Tuna is a good one with a spud but not too much fish

I've got a load of porridge pots too and frozen fruit

And soups. You can add all sorts of hidden veg, leave it in a slow cooker or in a pressure cooker blend and done.
I also found I didn't have indegestion with soups
For ideas we had chicken noodle soup and roast sweet potato and carrot soup tonight
And recently used the last batch of roasted butternut squash soup

Vegetable stir fry

Baked potato with baked beans and cheese or egg mayo. If you can stomach eggs they're fantastic in pregnancy.

Ham and cheese toastie with tomato soup.

Make sure not to eat tuna too much as it has mercury. I think twice a week was the limit. I love tuna, so I’m conscious of not having it too much.

I would say a good fast meal could be egg omelette. Or just egg w rice. I like to eat it w spinach thrown in.

Really helpful and great ideas here thank you! The more veggie stuff the better as DH wont eat fish (and yes he still expects me to cook for him). I can't face touching chicken at the mo either.
Totally forgot about Omlette, such a good idea.

Baked sweet potato with cottage cheese is amazing!
Baked potato with tuna and onion in mayo with salad also hits the spot.
Really into hake baked in oven with either new potatoes or rice and tenderstem broccoli with butter and dash of pink salt. Really tasty and filling.

I'd like to point out for everyone that tinned tuna has pretty much nothing in it regarding Mercury and you'd have to eat multiple tins a day everyday for it to be a danger. It's fresh tuna steak that you have to limit 😊