Food suggestions please as everything except red meat and ice cream makes me retch!

[Twig79]

hi all I'm 16 wks and still suffering from morning sickness (but in the evenings!) since getting pregnant all my normal food loves (fish, pasta, salads) make me feel quesy and basically, i've been existing on cheese and ham toasted sandwiches / pizzas, steak, and ice cream. I'm getting desperate for new recipe ideas, as the thought of eating the same thing again is so depressing! any suggestions for simple suppers?

Sounds like your body has decided you need calcium and iron!!

I was the same for a while, would only be fed egg sandwiches and got rather sick of those.

Do you feel you could stomach rice? There's all manner of things can be thrown together quickly with rice.

Fajitas? With steak, and small bits of other stuff?

Completely know what you mean Twig79.

I'm 10 weeks and my diet is very limited at the moment, and what I am managing to successfully keep down for the most part seems to be junk and picky food; salt and vingear crisps, dark choc digestives, ginger biscuits, chips/wedges, roasties etc. with the odd carrot stick, tomato or satsuma thrown in for 'healthy' measure! Sugar and Carbs/Fat seems to be what my baby wants.

Getting a bit worried I will be the size of a house within weeks, end up with an enormous baby to push out at the end, or worse still increase my chances of developing diabetes later on. Would really love to eat and enjoy a normal meal!!

Sorry havent got any suggestions for you, just wanted to say I know how you feel!! Hope it gets better for us all soon!!

Same here - though much better for the past month (am 21 weeks), phew! I had the same 'staples' in my diet as you - plus potatoes (jackets with cheese, or mashed) and cereal. I bought myself a smoothie maker and found that to be a great way of feeling like I was getting some vitamins inside me! Banana and frozen berries, with a splash of milk is my current favourite, and not too expensive using frozen berries - also makes the smoothie nice and cold and icy.
I also found plain steamed green veg, sometimes with a little olive oil or butter, to be good. Again, makes you feel a bit more human after constantly having to stuff carbs down your throat all day to avoid being sick! There's no fun in eating when you feel so sicky is there?!

I'm 10 weeks pregnant and existing on toast, with the occasional piece of steak, slice of pizza, chips and salt n vinegar crisps. I do try to eat oranges. That makes my diet healthy, right?!

Even though I hate sweet things, my "I'm surprised that I like eating that" food is melon. Just got cantaloupe and galia this evening but honeydew still is the best. Melons' main attraction for me is that its such a mild taste, and quite watery and I'm fnding it hard to drink enough. Just tonight tried rice crispies - no sugar was an important element in my breakthrough; while even the thought of milk makes me shudder, its OK when camouflaged by the rice crispies.

Try not to go food shopping though if you can avoid it. I had to go cos my OT was getting fed up with me going "ugh" to everything he brought home so he insisted that I went with him to Tescos. I shall dream of it tonight you know... All that food, surrounding me, around me...

Its nice to know that its not just me stuck in the carb cycle, although I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Getting up at 4am to eat toast isn't fun. On the plus side, I am really up to date on my bbc news 24 viewing. I have never had such a small appetite while having to eat so frequently with so many carbs. .

It just seems a little unfair - if I'm going to get chubby - and at 10 weeks, this is mainly chubbiness, not baby - surely it should be from a surfeit of chocolate cake?!

I'm currently 34 weeks with my first and have suffered with sickness continually throughout my pregnancy and from around 16 weeks, I've also suffered with continual indigestion and acid heartburn pretty much 24 hours a day. This happened regardless of whether I ate or didn't eat and it made no difference trying different foods. Despite whingeing to my various midwifes (never seem to see the same person twice!) none of them have come up with anything constructive or useful and I have suffered all the way through only to have all my problems solved in an instant with a piece of advice from a mother of 4 kids who suffered the same as me. She said that the only thing that worked for her was when her doctor prescribed her with omeprazole which is a tablet used for treating stomach ulcers.

Now, I'm the most paranoid person about taking anything whilst pregnant and haven't even taken so much as an aspirin but I have a customer who comes into my business who is a GP and I asked him about it and he said it was completely safe to take it and I also checked with a friend of mine who is a pharmacist who agreed. When I asked my own GP to prescribe it for me, I quizzed her about it at length and she said that she would be happy to take it herself whilst pregnant so I figured that it would be ok on the back of all that (and that the mother of 4 who recommended it had 4 normal and healthy kids).

I started taking it last week (just one tablet a day) and from the very first day it has sorted me out completely. I have only felt sick once in the past week and then I realised that I had forgotten to take my tablet that morning and after I took it I was absolutely fine again.

Apparently, if you get the wrist bands that you get in chemist shops for sea-sickness/motion sickness that is also supposed to help a lot for pregnancy sickness but I haven't tried them myself as I've only just found that out and my problem is solved now anyway. I'm just a bit gutted that I've had 33 weeks of complete misery that could've been sorted out a lot sooner had I had the right advice earlier!! Don't suffer in silence ladies, speak to your GP as a lot of midwives don't offer you anything other than Gaviscon/Maladrox or Mucogel which in my case I'd have been as well pouring down the loo and cutting out the middle-man so to speak!

P.S. Try not to worry too about your babies not getting enough nutrients etc because of your sickness. They will take what they need from your own reserves and my baby is measuring spot on for 34 weeks despite me keeping very little food down for a large amount of the time.