NEW: Mumsnet Pregnancy Tracker app - tell us about your craziest pregnancy cravings - chance to win £150 + Persil Non Bio and Comfort Pure! NOW CLOSED

[ZaneMumsnet]

To help celebrate the new Pregnancy Tracker app, sponsored by Persil Non Bio and Comfort Pure - we'd love to hear all about your pregnancy cravings.

The new app guides you through pregnancy week by week, sharing expert info and the experiences of thousands of other women who've been through the same things at each stage.

We all know that pregnancy can make people do some rather strange things - and 90% of pregnant women will experience antenatal cravings. Some can't get enough of one specific food, while others find themselves creating flavour combinations they'd never have dreamed of pre-pregnancy.

From inhaling everything sweet in two seconds flat, to middle of the night munching, or the sudden urge to taste things that aren't even food - what did you crave while waiting for your baby to arrive?

Share your wacky and wonderful pregnancy cravings with us - and help make other pregnant women currently experiencing them feel a little better about their latest hormone-induced feast.

Anyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £150 voucher for the store of your choice PLUS a month's supply of Persil Non Bio and Comfort Pure!

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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I craved chips wrapped in Newspaper like they used to be back in the day! My poor husband was having to go and get me chips then wrap them in newspaper for me to enjoy! I have no idea if it was the different smell of the newspaper but thats what i wanted!!!

Oranges. I eat about 10 a day.

Pickled onion monster munch at the moment- I don't even like them normally!

Chocolate on everything (roast dinners, stir fry)!!

beetroot on toast with grated cheese on the top!

When I was a child, my cat had kittens. We gave 2 to my married sister and 2 to a trusted family friend. There was 1 girl left nobody wanted. My dad took her to the pet shop to be sold. My mum kept worrying what would happen to her if no one bought her. We ended up going back to the pet shop and buying her back! She ended up being the centre of attention and a much loved pet!

During my pregnancy my sister and brother in law stayed with us as they were inbetween houses. My brother in law cooked the most amazing meals but I had EVENING sickness and really couldn't face food. I'd reheat whatever he cooked in the morning when I was really hungry so I ended up eating corned beef hash and lasagnes for my breakfast!

I had mars bar milkshakes and poured over dark red apple wedges that had been dipped in peanut butter with DS1 (when I'd finally stopped being sick!)

Ready Salted crisps dipped into tomato ketchup and vinegar with DS2.

Curry and chilli peppers with DS3, I used to sit in the cinema with a plastic cup full of jalapeño peppers to munch on.

DD it was honey and peanut butter on toast and gummy bears.

mine was for lime icecream and ive only ever eaten it in rome (many years ago) bless my dad he tried so hard but i made do with lime jelly

Waitrose trifle, I had terrible heartburn and everything tasted horrible. I remember crying on the phone to my cousin, as I spooned my way through a family trifle, that my baby would come out with a trifle addiction. He was a very healthy baby!

I spent every day throwing up and every night demanding my husband bought me chicken and sweetcorn soup from one particular chinese takeaway. I lived on the stuff for months.

Big Mac Sauce, I was obsessed with it for a sizeable portion of my pregnancy just couldn't get enough of it.

A friend of mine had the weirdest cravings when she was carrying her first son.
She told me she used to eat soap, only Imperial Leather, chalk, only white, and pilchards with everything, including on pizza, with custard and to dunk in her tea!!
It makes me glad to be a man and to not have to go through all that strange stuff.
Funny thing is her son (now twenty two) to this day hates all kinds of fish.

My second child must have been born with a very weird sence of taste because I couldn't get enough of bounty chocolate bars thinly sliced and tomatoes on sliced white bread.

Kippers, raw onion & mustard sandwiches :)

I went through a salty stage when I was suffering with morning sickness (I think my body needed the salt to make the water I was drinking work?!) so I ate nothing but "party" packs of mini pork pies and salt and vinegar crisps. It only lasted a week but my DP thought it was hilarious! I was also crunching on ice lollies at 6am on the train platform as I couldn't even keep water down that early 😩 Got some great looks off the other commuters!

I also had a while of scoffing wotsits, but I could have done that before being pregnant....

Oddly healthy cravings here, preg with Dc6 and eating celery, babycorn and radishes. Also water biscuits and pretzels.

Mcdonalds Chocolate Milkshake! And generally the craving kicked in at around 10.30pm lol. Much to his credit my hubby made many a late night run to get me one :)

I went totally OFF coffee but ONTO pickled anything!! Yuk now though

I just wanted salty things all the time! Crisps, lots of salt on chips, salted butter! Also loved juicy things like nectarines and strawberries :)

mine was apples and peanut butter just loved dipping pieces apple into the peanut butter yummy

I always craved cotton wool! Not sure why....something about the texture, I think.

My partner went through a bad craving of pickled onions and cheese. She would sit there with a jar of pickled onions and a block of cheese and just eat away!

I had cravings for banana and lemon curd sandwiches :)

Raw Rhubarb - I was in the garden in the early hours searching under a metal bucket that covered it!