Morning sickness food insipration

[Naetha]

Help me! I'm 11 and a half weeks, and even thinking about food makes me gip. There is no food in the house that I want to eat, but I'm absolutely starving, and starting to feel more and more sick!

I know this is trivial compared to some people who vomit non-stop, but I can't bear the thought of cooking anything for more than about 30 seconds, or the smell of cooked food. Even the thought of eating salt and vinegar crisps isn't appealing, and eating raw fruit and veg (the thought of which doesn't make me want to vom) makes me feel even worse.

Anyone got any ideas of what I can eat? I need other people to think for me, because the more I think about it, the worse I feel!

Hi Naetha with ds I had sickness all day for 8 months - and found sucking on cubes of chocolate helped through out the day. All thought the standard advice is ginger biscuits also I have seen prggie pops - lollipops that are supposed to help - but haven't tried.

I ate loads of avocado and grated cheese grilled in a pitta.

Raw carrots

Tinned rice pudding(I know...)

Cream crackers

Tinned macaroni cheese(I know again, I think it's the blandness)

Muller rice

Precooked chicken pieces you can eat cold

Ready made pasta salad

Fish finger sandwich

Lettuce sandwich

I needed food to be instant and fairly bland too, so bought ready made stuff I would never normally eat! I also grazed on Digestives, seed mixes, sesame snaps, pic n mix sweets, cherry tomatoes, and those Elevenses cake things.
My Mum made me a ginger cake each week too which was good.

Hope this helps, it's horrible feeling constantly nauseous. I needed to just pick all day and it relieved it slightly- you whole life revolves around loving/hating food!

Lemonade, chocolate milk (thick stuff).
Ginger made me worse. Couldn't eat anything so lived on those for four months.

I ate loads of wheat free ginger cake which helped me feel less sick - haven't touched it since I gave birth though!!

How about pasta salad or similar that doesn't have a strong smell or taste particularly?

For me the sickness did go away fairly early on (can't remember when exactly) I hope it does for you too!

I think I just need to hold my nose and get soemething down me - hopefully that will settle my stomach enough to actually eat something properly!

Does anyone else find as well that they buy all these things while out shopping that they absolute crave that minute, but can't stand the thought of eating when they get home?

I couldn't even go into a supermarket, I could smell all of the chemicals, it was awful because I love a good supermarket.

I symapathise. Every time I thought of food I felt ill but actually eating it was fine. i used to get DH to cook something, with no consulatation with me and just plonk it in front of me to eat as quickly as poss!

Plain digestives helped me a lot.

The thought of cooking was an absolute nightmare.

Crunchy stuff used to help me - crackers, breadsticks, twiglets -and gallons of traditional still lemonade to alleviate nausea!

cheese and biscuits or bread was the thing that most settled my stomach.

dried apricots too.

Finally found the one thing I can eat without turning my stomach. Don't laugh please.

POT NOODLE!!

lol - can't imagine anything more stomach churning tbh, but hey, if you can tolerate it, then eat it!

ditto!!!1 lived on instant noodles or tinned spaghetti with one of mine.

try getting someone else to cook for you. often the thought of food is nauseating but if something is just put in front of you you just eat it.

keep eating/drinking something (anything) as being hungry only makes you feel more sick.

walk round the house with a lavender bag if necessary - have had a few pregnancies where the smell of toast made me hurl....not good in my house as it's my husbands staple food.

big sympathy - hope you start feeling normal soon. mines just starting so the next month's looking v bleak!!

sucking on lemon halves really helped me with 3rd pregnancy where the nausea was unbearable and I wished I could just be sick and have done!
What flavour Pot Noodle, BTW?

Naetha, it was American Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for me. Three solid weeks of the stuff. And tinned spaghetti hoops (not tinned spaghetti, had to be hoops).

Just eat whatever you can, no matter how disgusting (but draw the line at stuff like dirt and chalk!).

Try and eat something because you often find that being hungry makes the nausea worse. I lived on rice crispies and microwave meals (I normally threw half of it up and then could eat the second half quite happily ) DS is now 71/2 and it doesn't seem to have done him any harm.

hoops?? nooo has to be the long stuff.
lived on crunchy nut cornflakes with first (years ago) then they went and banned peanuts! doh!
are peanuts still not allowed? could really go peanut butter - straight from the jar of course.

at bluecow's 'long stuff'. HOOPS!

I wouldn't have gotten any protein at all for the first 16 weeks were it not for peanut butter. I believe the current research says no need to restrict nuts for most people. Some people still advise you do it if you or partner have nut allergies/asthma. We both have asthma, but I'm still indulging. Some studies even suggest that the restrictions are what's causing the nut allergies. They haven't proven either way, so bring on the peanut butter I say.

Smells were the worst for me too Naetha, I couldn't bear the smell of the oven heating up- who knew that even had a smell!
I forgot(or was too ) to add super noodles, instant cous cous, and mocrowave egg fried rice.

Glad you found something, they're not leafy

Do you like marmite? I (and several friends) found an emergency marmite sandwich in the handbag essential. This pregnancy I have progressed to eating spoonfuls of it from the jar. I had a 3 day spell at around 9 weeks where all I ate was bread and marmite. Or just marmite. Off to the cupboard now, this is making me hungry.

I had all day sickness until a couple of weeks ago. Things that helped (depending on my mood) were:

super noodles
melon
grapefruit
fresh still lemonade from M&S
Jamaican ginger beer (the one that's a bit spicy)
cheese and crackers
olives
sucking cola bottles

Am only just able to bear cooking again now although the nausea has more or less stopped (16 weeks).

Hope you feel better soon.

I'm 22+3 today and still being sick. I rarely cook these days, we are living off ready meals and sauces from jars.

I eat...

Sweets eg jelly beans, haribo etc etc
Jaffa cakes
Toast & marmite
Pizza
Egg mayo sandwiches
Crisps (v picky about flavours though)

Very little of any nutritional value, especially on bad days. On good days I can eat a normal evening meal, but only the above crap for most of the day.

Different things work for different people.

Frozen raspberries.

Cut lemons.

Readybrek.

Marmite on toast was my saviour but only in my 1st pg.
When the sickness wasnt as bad I loved boiled eggs and soldiers! But they had to be toasted soldiers. And salt on the egg.