Cravings

Hello all,
I just read all of your cravings stories.... I gotta tell ya, some of it made me quite hungry, some of it not hungry at all... ;)
Being a bloke, believe it or not, I get cravings every now and then. Not that it's sympathy cravings or anything... this can happen at ANY time... :?
Usually I get urges for Tuna sandwiches. Sometimes with lettuce, sometimes with capers and sundried tomatoes, sometimes with mixed herbs and melted cheese, but as long as it has tuna in it.
I don't know if this counts, but starting a packet of Tim Tams, lollies, potato chips / pringles usually for me leads to having to 'skoff' the whole lot down... Don't know if it's a guy thing or not, but usually doesn't end there though either.. hehehe...
Maybe I jusy like my food (in though mode just like Dory from finding Nemo)... Darn.. I feel like a tuna sandwich now... maybe with some basil and olive oil and some REALLY thin Swiss cheese melted over the top of it.... Oh... and some HOT salami between it all too!!!!
Gotta go... have sandwiches to make... Have to share them too!!!!!

my pregnancy favourites were an avocado/chicken/pineapple/cheese/mushroom sandwich + a curried egg sandwich + 2 pieces of apple pie (all in the one sitting!) (I used to get this every morning at work for about 2 months!!)
At home I would devour bananas at a rate of about 5 per day, as well as have at least 3 homemade banana and mango smoothies a day...
I was constantly eating as it was the only thing to cure the nausea, so I suceeded in not throwing up once, yet I did put on 37kg throughout my pregnancy...

My cravings have been many but intense - I would tear shops apart in desperation & gorge for a week or two then never want it again!

lemon sherbert lollies
perpermint choc icecream
butter chicken sauce (no chicken!) with naan
fudgy chocolate icecream with choc sauce (I'm not a big chocolate eater!)
raw cauliflower stalks
mashed potato

now I am up to slightly green bananas (which I HATE but can now eat 4 or 5 in a sitting) and green seedless grapes, which at $20 a kilo is costing me a small fortune!

Funny, I have always been a huge fan of dill pickles but now I cant bear them which hopefully means the radiographer was right and I'm having a girl!

Ok Girls... I know you have them... CRAVINGS!!!
Maybe not as bad as waking up DH/DP in the middle of the night for roast potatos...mmmmm.... but what do you crave???

LOL that would be a huuuge pain in the bum, having a craving for roast potatoes! They take so long to cook - I would go nuts waiting for them! I feel like some now :( LOL!!! I have been craving lots of carbs, which is what they say if you are having a boy ;)

Hi ladies!

I was wondering how true it is that if you're expecting a girl, you crave sweet things?

With the boys, I didn't have any cravings, apart from hard boiled eggs with Italian dressing on top!

Now I am craving sweet everything, carrot cake, chocolate, orange juice, with roast spuds and lemon juice chucked in to confuse me!!

Anyone had cravings for sweet things and had a boy? \:D/

Juice!! Any sort of juice I can get, but atm mostly orange & pineapple. We just ordered a juicer from our credit card points so I can't wait for it to arrive :D

I can add to the cravings boy vs girl debate... I craved savoury and I had a girl... :-k

Cucmber salad. Can't have enough of it. Preferably with a vinaigrette with lots and lots of balsamic vinegar.
oh and watermelon ! and berries! very big on fruit. always have been but definitely even more so since pregnant.

Sarah, a juicer is a great thing. We got one for our wedding and I've had fresh juices for the first 12 weeks every morning (unfortunately it's in Oz still, bugger...)

Snowy

I had my first craving the other day, I'd never had a full on craving before but it happened and I couldn't believe how strong it was!

Basically it was orange - I had orange juice, then I wanted orange icy pole, then more juice. Crazy. Stocked up at supermarket but haven't had any craving so strong again.

I do love my twisties though - eat them alot as well as peanut butter and honey on toast - yum! Oh and strawberry yoghurt and banana's and peppermint areo bars - quite a mix! :)

With Olivia I craved Chocolate Ice-cream, Apple Turnovers and Bananas. For the first 3 months all I ate was salada crackers and egg & lettuce sandwiches.

Susan

Vegemite toast......mmmmmmmmm..... only think I can eat for breakfast now! :lol: Must be all the vitamin B.

Not sure if exactly a craving, but I just can't get enough of egg & avocado sandwiches, YUUUMMMM! Eve one of the guys at work has started ordering them cos they are so nice!

Ok, adding to my craving list.
Still love vegemite on toast (have it every morning) and can't go near cereal because of having to put milk on it (eewwwwww dairy!).
The midwife managed to convince me to try to get in dairy when I can. I bought some expensive cheese (not soft cheese) and have a couple of bits on crackers. I also have a milo with skim milk (LOTS of milo to disguise the milk) and I grudgingly have a couple of spoonfuls of yoghurt (full strength). M/S is disappearing so perhaps I will be able to get back into dairy again?!? 8-[

So, now I have to have coffee! I love it. So much so that I suggested to Neil that we buy some "fancy stuff" (my name for things not generic, :lol:). I only have one a day (and sometimes not at all) and it's also another way of getting some milk into me!

Ribena and lemonade also makes my mouth drool! Might go and get some now.

I love, love, love grapes! They are SOOOOOO expensive but gotta have em! Even after I puked a whole lot of them up last weekend (lovely!), I still want them. And mandarines. And watermelon. Hek, go the fruit! I have never been a fruit person!

Still love the chocolate and nordy things but I am hoping summer might help me out a bit. MMmmmmmm that means rainbow paddle pops! Woo hoo!

Renae has some inetresting cravings apart from the usual vegemite on toast,

Her Big cravings are
* Cheese slices (KRAFT) eats em by the packet load not surprised if 2 packets a week.
* Red Rooster Chips another big one
* McDonalds Junior Burgers.

Don't know wether these are normal or not she never before eat so many of these particular items

With Kimebrely I loved baked beans i eat them nearly everyday for lunch with bread and butter. :)

Michelle,
I was the same with baked beans! It must be all the iron and fibre in them! :D
I also wanted Burger Rings all the time, I hate them normally! :smt118

Thought I would add mine to the list

DD #1 - Salami and tasty cheese on rice crackers and apple juice, lots of apple juice, usually 2-4 litres a day. I also had a hysterical craving at 3am for Chicken Samboys, even woke DH up so that he could go and get them for me, which he did, but I went to sleep before he came home, so he woke me up as he was cranky that I went to sleep.

DD#2 - Fresh pineapple and cashews. I would eat 2 pinapples a day, sometimes 3, yum!

Bubs #3 - Corn Cruskits with Kraft cream cheese spread, toast with mountains of butter and cookies and cream ice cream with hot chocolate fudge, yummm!

Also had a huge craving for ham, ended up buying some as OB said it was okay if prepacked, had one slice and hated it. YUK!!!

Think I am off to the shops now for some fresh pineapple, yummmmm!!

I'm not so sure Baked Beans are a craving for me, but I just eat them alllll the time - breakfast, for lunch on the weekend & we even had a big breakfast type meal for dinner one night with baked beans, eggs, sausages....

Also, artifical flavour atm. I just looove lollie flavour, but not necessarily lollies - cordial, iceblocks, soft drink...

I am 15 weeks pg and so far have had only a couple of weird ones:
1. Sweetened condensed milk - i ate 3 table spoons before Ade (hubby) walked in the kitchen and told me off!
2. Salted Cucumbers
3. lots of juicy crunchy fruit
4. tomato juice and tomato sandwiches

Is that a good selection or what? ;) By the way most of these cravings happened around 2nd and 3rd month.

whats rashuns? :eek:

im craving a bubba right now ;)

Emma - yuck, that sounds gross - he hee.. bannana's are $12.99 per kilo at my supermarket, so although I crave them I'm not buying them (or only one or two)...

All I want is cow's milk with milo... Which is gross for me as I've drunk soy milk since I was 15, now I drink a litre of milk each day?

Other than that I've had no real cravings much to DH dissapointment, had had bought pickles and ice cream when I first fell, so cute...

Good luck TTC Danni, sending you sticky vibes...

thanks babe...omg your baby girl is gunna be here in no time! :D

I have been craving oranges - thank goodness it isn't bananas

(Hi girls - haven't been around for a while so trying to catch up with all the goss now!)

Cheese for me atm - cheddar or cream. I was craving brie but I didn't indulge seeing as that's on the banned list for pg!

I also had a craving for mandarins last week, ate tons of them. And before that it was seafood.

I thought cream cheese was on the banned list too????
Just had a lovely iced scroll bun with a large hot chocolate hhhmmmmmmm

I don't think cream cheese is on the banned list, first I've heard of it anyway!

Throughout this pregnancy its been salt and vinegar chips or sushi and today its burger rings.. DF is getting me some on his way home from work.. hes such a gem!

Emma, i know they say its only a myth but im craving salty stuff and having a boy and youre craving sweet (fruit) stuff and having a girl! Spoooky!

Ive heard cream cheese is ok too..

my sister in law was craving smoked salmon in her third tri-mester while i was in my second and she convinced me to try it and it was not very nice .. it was too fishy for my liking..

now im in my third tri mester and i cant get enough of the smoked salmon!!!
i love it!!
i tend to crave really salty spicyyyyy food! i love my food steaming hot and chilli hot too :)

big hugs to you danni!

hoping you receive your own little miracle very very soon


xoxoxoxox
ambz

I havnt had any cravings apart form chocolate? Is chocolate bad to have

Nooooo! The more chocolate the better if you ask me:D

well if you say so :D id be delighted to eat it

Hi
My cravings have been cheese with gherkin crackers (mind you I had never tried a gherkin before until now) fresh cream & jam donuts & banana's but I only buy 1 every now and then due to the $12.99kg price.

choc should DEFINITELY be at the 3-4 servings per day end of the pyramid :D

At the start of my pregnancy I had the same cravings as my mother which is weird...

I loved rollmops in vinegar and green seedless grapes..

Now it's Minties...can eat a whole bag myself...can't get enough of them

whats a rollmop?

I am now craving sausages after reading the slow cooker thread. But I will eat almost anything anytime, LOL...

a rollmop is a pickled herring...only had 2...then I got over it..

I know it was a banned item...but I couldn't stop myself....

Oh Emma why did you mention marshmallows now I am craving them too! :)

Mine would have to be chinese food :)

I loved it and indian food when i was pg with Kimberley.