What were your cravings?

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With my first pregnancy I never had any cravings, maybe ice water but I put that down to being pregnant in summer.

This time, I'm literally only 4 weeks and I dreamt of Branston pickle!! I've always hated it, this time I dreamt of it and when I ate it I loved it. How strange? Prior to this I never thought cravings were really a thing.

What were you're cravings, and when did you start having them?

Any weird and wonderful ones?

Ketchup on toast at around 8 weeks. Only lasted a few weeks. Now I'm 33 weeks and all I crave is a good nights sleep

Oh I'm so happy I stumbled across this thread. I'm 7 weeks and all I can think about is bbq mini cheddar with babybel cheese... My first pregnancy so didn't expect cravings to be so strong but as soon as I ate them I was so happy 🤗 love to know other cravings people have had

Dd1 Pickled onion monster munch and marmite sandwiches, dd2 bacon rolls lived off them 😳, ds apples and malteasers

Vegetarian bacon with both.

I got pregnant in April. I could not eat enough peaches. Usually I'm not bothered by them.
I once randomly felt a real urge to eat Philadelphia on celery. I was walking up the stairs at home, and just got this weird urge for the cold, soft texture of the cheese and crunchy/water texture of the celery. Really weird.

JELLY! Any flavour. I think it's a texture thing? Never been that fussed for it so to suddenly have to leave the house and go get jelly was interesting haha

#1 Ice cubes and Rennie's tablets.

Spoke to my midwife as I was honestly drooling over the tablets... I limited myself to 6 a day towards the end as I could've happily eaten a box

#2 Ice cubes and Cherry Coke.

When I was pregnant I cried and threatened to throw DH out as he finished the bag -trays didn't hold enough 🤨

Smell of elbow grease (the degreaser spray cleaner) - but will take any disinfectant with a strong smell like dettol. I limit myself to one session of cleaning a day.
Lemon Fanta or hot ribena
Raw carrot - have one carrot peeled every night before bed

Cleaning sponges.
I'd cut them up into bite size pieces and have them in my pocket.

My diet was like a child-diet for the entirety of my pregnancy:

Plain ham sandwiches on white bread.

Punnets and punnets of strawberries.

Cheerios.

And absolutely NOT any green veg, which all tasted of dirt.

Twiglets was mine. My cravings were at their peak just before Christmas, so what did I get for Christmas? Yep, 3 boxes of Twiglets! Ate my way through them too 😋

Omg I craved salt!!!!!! Chips with salt and crisps crisps and more crisps!!!!!!! X

I constantly wanted to chew ice cubes. And smell strong smells such as wet concrete, nail polish remover etc, I couldn’t get enough. Weird I know!

Cereal, mango and carrots.

Although I had more food aversions - I pretty much went off chicken for my entire first and second trimesters, and still not a huge fan now at 40 weeks.

with my ds, in the beginning, I would get really hungry and crave stuff at night because I couldn't eat much in the day with morning sickness.

I remember really craving tacos, burgers, pizza, bacon, sushi and tempura...really savoury foods

Later on I craved radishes like a madwoman, as well as my strangest craving ... potting soil. (both due to anaemia)

@Missingthebridegene

Omg I craved salt!!!!!! Chips with salt and crisps crisps and more crisps!!!!!!! X

@Missingthebridegene I'm craving salt too. I'm 12 weeks and 2 days. Have you found out what sex you're having?

Raw carrots. Currently getting through 5kg a week.

Also have consumed a lot of raw sugar snap peas.

And chocolate

Seafood chowder. I never gave in though.

I did have a bit of a red wine craving with one pregnancy but not enough to give in to it.

With my first son it was salty, carby rubbish like crisps and supernoodles (I don't normally like supernoodles🤮). And fruit and veg. I remember going to the canteen at work one lunchtime and all I wanted (and got!) was an enormous mountain of cabbage covered in gravy😂

With both boys I craved curry - the hotter the better!

Cottage cheese - it had to be Longley Farm brand though. Beetroot, I would buy 5 trays of the cooked beetroot from the chiller cabinet at M&S at a time. Funnily enough, dd really dislikes both of those things.

Cherries
Smell of rubber
Vinegar

All,different pregnancies

Interesting thread! I giggled throughout! For me, 1st pregnancy I started eating bananas, which I hated before, didn't even talk to someone who'd just ate one lol. I also came off cumin use as cooking spice, to this day I'm not a fan and that was over 10 years ago. 2nd pregnancy for which I'm 29 weeks, I had a few weeks of sweet mango cravings, could eat a dozen per day. Then there was the egg/chicken crave, I'd eat eggs in different forms for almost all meals, then I hated both. I'm currently on a coca cola phase.

Forgot, I'm craving sleep lol, randomly woke at 2am and can't go back to sleep :(

Apple Creams and frosted pink Donuts from Tesco. I'm a savoury person normally and wouldn't thank you for sweet stuff.

Lentils!
DS is 3 now and it's the only vaguely healthy thing he would eat