Nausea and vomiting at 10 weeks. Please help me meal plan!!

[Cinderellashoes]

I’m almost 10 weeks with baby 3. I work as a nurse (part time) and I am vegetarian. I eat fish and eggs but have completely gone off both. Currently I am surviving on chocolate, peanut butter on toast, dried apricots, oranges and Chinese takeaway. I know my diet is shocking and I would really like to eat better to try and feel better. I am knackered and feel nauseous all the time! Please could I have some meal or snack ideas to try - great if they can be microwaved as cooking is a new form of torture but I could probably just about stomach it if I really fancied something!

The only things I could stomach first trimester was plain pasta with butter, not ideal but also could be worse! Either brown or white pasta!
Also watermelon was great, you can buy pre cut bits from the shop. Jacobs crackers were good, soda water, marmite on brown toast.
I can't really help on the proper meal front as I could barely eat anything with flavour! Hopefully you've only got a few weeks left of it before the second trimester hits and it passes!

What do you have from the Chinese? That might be a good place to start for your main meals- I've done a lot of rice with a sauce, as in just the liquid and maybe the odd bit of veg. So plain boiled rice with a Thai green curry sauce and maybe a pick of the veg that's in it but I've gone off meat so DP just puts in enough for him. Could do same if you prefer noodles. If you're all about the starters I don't think there's anything wrong with beige party food as a dinner every now and then 😂

Different things on toast? Other dried fruit- ooh, fruit loaf toasted? Other sharp citrussy fruits?

I guess it's a case of slowly slowly widening the range in the hope that something else sticks and also that the nausea fades off in another week or two. It's horrible isn't it but it will pass.

The only things I could stomach at that point were carbs. I was living off of crisps, chips and pickled onions!

Honestly, try not to worry about not eating healthy enough, my midwife kept telling me that when you're being that sick it's just about what you can keep down. Don't feel guilty if Chinese food is what's keeping you going!

Fingers crossed it gets better for you soon! I'm 35 weeks tomorrow and so ready for him to be here now, the constant nausea is awful!

I'm 14 weeks now and had bad sickness with this pregnancy - only thing I could stomach for 12 weeks was ready salted crisps, toast, mcdonalds, subway and ice creams! Don't think a vegetable crossed my lips!

Much better now and back to eating a more balanced diet.

I'd say be kind to yourself and eat what you can manage xx

Thank you so much for all the replies.

So from the Chinese I have salt and pepper tofu (which I know is quite an obscure thing!) and vegetable fried rice. However.. there’s no way I could cook tofu myself 🤮 and rice that you do at home doesn’t taste anywhere near as nice!!
So today I’ve had some ginger biscuits, marmite on toast and a yoghurt with nuts. What I do struggle with is at work - I need to be up at 5 and need to snack constantly. But if I eat too much I feel bloated which makes me feel sick in a different way! I’m hoping I’m over the worst so far now. Hopefully work will get a bit easier!

And I have just learned that subway do a new vegetarian type chicken which husband has gone off to get me now! So that’s very exciting lol!
I think not preparing the food helps too. So I find toast much more enjoyable if husband makes it for me and spreads the butter etc - that sounds like a cop out but I promise it’s not

@Cinderellashoes I'm
34 weeks pregnant and only in the last week have been able to feel better.
I've been surviving on a diet of rice, potatoes, pasta, eggs, fish. I know you can't eat eggs or fish. I cannot cook and haven't cooked since last November. My poor husband has been cooking different varieties of rice and like you this is my third pregnancy but I've never had any symptoms except obviously looking pregnant. I've been on prochlorperazine that didn't work and I was on Cariban until last week. I found iced water helps, ginger biscuit to a certain extent, toast, crackers, different varieties of rice and pasta. Hope it eases up for you soon.x

I know it's tricky when you're vegetarian but protein is your friend.

Things like white rice are good to get your blood sugar up off the floor, but you need complex carbs and protein to keep it stable - which will make you feel a lot less nauseous in the long run, hopefully.

I had HE twice, it's grim - I do sympathise. I used to have fruit juice and a bun in the morning (even managed to keep it down sometimes...) then tried to have wholemeal toast or plain wholemeal rice, working up to some plain poached or fried chicken later in the day. The aim being to stop my blood sugar from bouncing around like a mad thing.

Tofu is good, as is peanut butter. But if there's any other protein source you can bear at the moment (lentils? Quorn?) Quinoa? Oats?) you might benefit from planning some in, especially as the day goes on. Maybe flapjacks with some dried fruit, if you can tolerate sweet things better than savoury? Or porridge? Quorn has a whole range of ready-made things that aren't completely awful.

When pregnant I can't manage 'meals' until around 12 weeks ish. Up until then it's just eat whatever I can manage whenever I can manage it. Don't worry if it's nibbling all day rather than three meals a day. Try to eat healthy stuff whenever you can, but if you have days where you live on jelly and haribo, that's okay. It's very temporary and none of the bad diet reaches the baby at this stage.
I could manage carrot sticks dipped in houmous, would that work? Could you put fruit on top of the peanut butter toast (like apples and pears)? Yogurt, nutty granola and cold fruit? Protein is difficult but if you can't manage much don't worry. It should start getting better soon.

Ooh I love salt & pepper tofu!

I would recommend the Cauldron pre marinated tofu pieces, most supermarkets do them. You can bung them straight in the oven with no prep to just heat through. The marinade is a really gentle flavour. I have them with rice, noodles, on salad, in a wrap.

Maggi 3 minute chicken instant noodles are vegetarian (!) and pleasingly bland. I often add a bit of steamed veg in. Spring greens don’t really taste of anything, I —make my husband— stir fry them with ginger to help the sickness

The rice you do at home not tasting as nice as the takeaway is down to the MSG, which you can buy from Asian grocers