Do you spend more on food during pregnancy?

[hermitzero]

I am in the 2nd trimester. Since my morning sickness was gone, I started to eat a lot and I have noticed that my usual monthly food budget is not enough these days. We, between myself and DH, spend £100 or so more on food than I wasn't pregnant. What about you? Do you spend more on food?

Not really. As a family of 7 already I have to keep to a tight budget. I try to eat as normal as possible to minimise fat gain, got enough stores already lol.

I’m eating the same as before I was pregnant pretty much (I think) but will actively try and eat more in the third trimester as you’re supposed to consume more then - can’t remember how much! Although our food bill has gone up because we are doing all online food shopping now which we get from Tesco’s whereas we went to Aldi before which is about 2 thirds of the price! X

£100 more?! in what time period?

We probably spend £5 more in a week. There’s been the odd time where I’ve really fancied something like smoothies which we don’t normally buy, or I’m on a hummus phase atm to cut down on sugar.

There probably 1 extra pack of crackers and I have slightly larger portions at meal times but not enough to really have an impact on the food shop.

I’m 31 weeks

I’m spending a lot more on my snacks such as crisps and chocolate 😳 it’s the saviour food for my nausea so I need to keep it topped up!

A little more on food, maybe £5 per week? This covers the occasional craving I get for higher quality foods... like freshly squeezed orange juice! We don't normally buy juice so that's extra.
But I'm not drinking wine now, so we save more on that than we spend on tasty extras.
In terms of calories, I'm not eating more than before (currently second trimester). It's just that some of the foods are posher!

£100/month on top of your normal food bill is a lot. We spend about £160/month in total for two adults (inc toiletries etc). Could you save by avoiding processed food and cooking from scratch? Much cheaper (unless you buy loads of stuff like asparagus and wild salmon)!

Is that £100 a week or £100 a month? If you take out alcohol money (assuming you drank before you’re pregnant) how much are you actually spending?

I only spent more money on fresh fruit like strawberries and apples as I crave them in pregnancy and blue polo's. In all it was probably about £10- £15 a month more.
You only need a few hundred extra calories (half a bagel, I think) a day in your 3rd trimester so you don't really need to be eating loads more food to achieve that.
Why is your food shop so much more expensive, what are you buying?

In the first trimester because nausea made me very particularabout what I could eat and it kept changing.

Oh well I was just coming on to comment that it's a good job crisps are cheap but we are £5ish a week more tops and that is mainly extra bread, crisps, fruit as I have these between meals. Depends what I fancy in a given week, if it's a soft fruit or olives week it's a little more but as others have said it's only what I would have spent on wine or beer to have with dinner in a week.

Since my cravings are for fresh fruit and sushi usually from m and s on the way to work I don't even want to look at my food spend!

Yes. A bit more in my first pregnancy and a LOT more in my second. However, this is mainly in the first trimester where if there's something I think I can eat, I will buy it and ignore the cost. In my second pregnancy first trimester, our food bill doubled one month. In the second and third trimesters, it goes up a little because I snack more but not loads.

Yes because when I'm pregnant I try to buy everything organic because it's better for the baby

I'm spending more because as @georgarina said, I've pretty much switched to organic.

Possibly spending more (I'm 31 weeks) as we've had a few extra takeaways for days when I've felt too tired to stand and cook. And have bought more snacks. But have bought less alcohol (e.g. none for me so less overall).
Have the last 3 months of lockdown made an impact? Because we've saved money by not being able to go out on any dinners/drinks out, even though that's probably pushed our general food bill up