How to improve my horrendous pregnancy diet

[MoonstoneGoddess]

Seen a few of these posts today and thought I'd ask for some advice and tips.
Today was by far the worse day in my pregnancy thus far. My booking appointment took hours in waiting room and had a few errands in town so ended up eating pure shite. The problem is I was stuck for ideas when I'm out and about as it said not to eat deli food cold foods ect as u dont know they are washed properly or don't contain bacteria. Including pre packed fruit.

Breakfast I had 2 slices of wholemeal toast with a bucket of butter
Lunch , was starved waiting so had 2 greggs sausages rolls and a bake
Hour later had small portion chippy chips.
Came home ate more toast
Small pizza and went to bed

It's blood horrendous isn't it?
Unfortunately some days my diet is hit and miss. Some days I manage fruit and others I don't but I generally do eat from greggs most days now im pregnant. Purely because I'm anxious eating pre packed sandwiches and deli stuff from subway when in work.
Can't make my own as we don't have a staff room at work.
If I'm tired at end of day it's usually pizza for covienience.
I'm struggling to prioritise my health which bothers me I want to take my health seriously as this pregnancy means alot to me since it was a challenge to get here.
If I'm eating pure shite like processed meat and carbs how am I providing any nutrition to little baba?
I do have days where I think my ultra processed meat shite diet is going to cause a miscarriage or cause problems with baby.
Im just entering second trimester now.
Anyone any tips for eating out? Or quick healthy convenient food? I'm just too bloody tired by time I come home in evenings to stand and cook a meal for an hour

You won't get any good advice from me. My diet isn't great either

That's a lot of beige food. But that is still better than being so hungry you get faint.

Do you drive to work? While we have a cold snap, you could home make lunch and keep it in your car. Or you could take fresh tomatoes, peppers, lettuce etc to eat with your Gregs. They won't go off in a few hours. Fresh fruit too - bananas, apples, grapes.

Batch cook some one-pots at the weekend, freeze, then take a portion out of the freezer before leaving for work in the morning and it will be ready to put straight in the microwave when you get home - chilli, curry, chicken casserole, home made veggie soup.

First trimester you may find you’re eating more beige food and that’s fine atleast you’re eating & keeping food down even if you have nausea etc. You’ll find second trimester you feel a bit more normalish if you don’t have any problems with HG etc and then third you may eat more beige but still fruits & veg etc too. Pregnancy is hard just try to eat plenty of fruit & veg and lots of fluids to help you. You’re growing a human.

do you have anywhere to store lunch at work? Can you bring a flask or cool bag?

Easy quick dinners when you’re home would be chicken and veg - you can do ‘try bake’ type things where you put it all in one dish, and then forget about it.

The subway salads are a good option if you don’t want the deli meat? Or what about having the rolls toasted? I’m sure it’s more filling/ nutritious than sausage rolls.

The risk with sandwiches and pre packed fruit is incredibly low. Avoid deli meats like prosciutto etc and obv unpasteurised cheeses... but just ordinary sandwiches should be absolutely fine. And pre packaged salads and fruit should be fine in this country. Not ideal for healthy eating but much better than all beige food for vitamins etc
Don't worry you've hurt your baby... in all honesty bad diet during pregnancy is more likely to harm you not the baby. Baby will take what it needs from you as priority... wether you then have any left for yourself is about how healthily you eat.
I've been earing quite badly all thru my pregnancy. Near my due date now. Baby is absolutely fine (it's my 3rd) but I am now at my best and I know that's because I haven't been eating very well.
Just do your best to get some fruit and veg down you each day somehow. Doesn't need to be perfect but just whenever you get a chance.

This.

I was basically eating wafer ham or heavily butter toast, bowls of sugary cereal, wine gums and satsumas for the first trimester of both pregnancies and lost 3-5kg…. God knows how.

try and find fruit and veg you can tolerate and take a good multivitamin

I don't have much advice as my diet sounds fairly similar! I'm in 1st trimester, and whenever I've tried to eat fruit or veg (anything beyond peas) I throw up within the hour.

I'm banking on the pregnancy vitamins helping out until I can stomach more!

Steamer pans are handy. I've got one with 3 levels, so I can boil potatoes, steam veg and then some chicken or fish on the top layer. I've not done this in pregnancy yet, but usually do it for easy dinners after work. Not the most exciting dinner but with some Nandos perinaise on top it's more interesting!