Yesterday I ate a whole can of tomato paste. Just opened it up and it it with a butter knife. Anyone else got a weird one?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Christy spent nearly two months of her pregnancy only able to consume Fruit & Nut granola bars.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
My wife's were fairly pedestrian. Cheeseburgers. However, it was always AFTER I was in bed that she decided this. I still hear about the one time I didn't go and get her a cheeseburger late at night.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Considering the wacky food cravings I get anyway, I hate to think what I’d be like pregnant.
Or maybe I’ll just crave “normal” food.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Get ready - fried pickles.
There is a restaurant about 30 miles away that serves them as an appetizer, and I made Wes take me several times during my pregnancy.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Watermelon. watermelon, watermelon and more watermelon.
That is all.
Farmgirl
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
We have fried pickles at a restaurant up here.
...and they're pretty good! Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Fried pickles?? I can't even tolerate them touching my food. YUCK.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
It was different with each of my pregnancies, and none of them were especially weird. I craved smells as well as food, though.
My sister-in-law was a teenager during my last pregnancy. She loves pickles and used to dip her dill pickles into apple cider vinegar (like dipping french fries into catsup). I was sitting across the room from her once while she was eating a pickle in that manner and I could just *almost* smell the vinegar. After she finished her pickle, she got up to put the cup of vinegar away and I asked her if I could have it. She handed it to me and asked me what I was going to do with it. I told her I was going to smell it.
A couple of weeks later, we were again at her house, this time with a lot of other family members. She was eating a pickle, and when she was done, she came up to me and held out her cup of vinegar and asked, "Do you want to smell this?" To everyone's surprise, I thanked her and took the cup. Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Do they dip the pickles in batter?
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
To anyone--what happens if you try to ignore these cravings?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
romy--yes, they do.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Storm - when I ignored it, I slept in the doghouse. Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Well duh. Where else would a tick sleep?
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Doh! Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
One week it was Vidallia onions. Baked, fried, any kinda cooked. Then it was baked potatoes, loaded,no sour cream. Then pasta. Lotsa pasta. The latest was vanilla ice cream with walnuts and Hershey's syrup. Unfortunately, I cannot have it anymore with the Gestational Diabetes but Lord do I still crave it! Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
According to the Jewish Talmud, ignoring your cravings...is HORRIBLY dangerous! In fact, you can even break the kosher laws to satisfy a craving.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
With my son, it was chicken in very specific forms. First it was chicken parmesan, then it was chicken teriyaki, then it was buffalo wings. Chicken and Ben and Jerry's ice cream. I gained so much weight with that pregnancy, it was ridiculous. With my daughter, I didn't want to eat anything ever. I ate a lot of soup because it was all I could stand to eat.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
For my wife, it was chocolate covered pretzels in one hand, and jalapenos in the other.
Posted by AmkaProblemka (Member # 6495) on :
Anything that doesn't make me gag right now.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Midget gherkins and green olives by the jars, juice and all.
I also craved Taco Bell and IHOP but Jes wouldn't take me because he said it was too expensive. I still get angry about that. Guys just don't understand what it's like. I would have been happy with a 59 cents taco!
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
<gives PSI some dog-poo Tacos>
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Heh. I promise if I get married and/or she gets pregnant, I will never willingly turn down a craving request.
-Trevor
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
At the start of both of my pregnancies it was always Fried Chicken. So now I know whenever I crave Fried Chicken really bad that it's possible that I'm pregnant.
[ September 02, 2004, 12:54 AM: Message edited by: unicornwhisperer ]
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
I didn't want anything to do with pickles while I was pregnant. Tom, on the other hand, consumed them in great quantity!
I didn't really crave anything, but I did eat a lot of fruit and nut granola bars. At least one a day. I also found that I had more of a sweet tooth in general and didn't really crave salt. I was drinking quite a bit of water, though. A habit that I'm trying to continue with breastfeeding.
I also had a certain fondness for Chili's boneless buffalo wings.
My "last meal" was enchiladas. I started eating more spicy food towards the end of my pregnancy. I think it was to make up for when I had nausea and couldn't eat many of my favorite foods.
Luckily, since I mostly consumed granola bars, Tom didn't really have to go out for late night runs. Actually, I am ashamed for the one time he did.
There was a nasty storm coming and we could see the black clouds rolling in from the North West. It was hot and sticky and I really wanted some ice cream to cool down. Tom jumped up and said that he was going to go get me some. I protested because of the storm, but he insisted. As soon as he left the tornado siren went off. I felt awful! Boy was that good ice cream, though
Edit: PSI -- Taco Bell was on the way home, just before we hit the highway. I would debate whether or not I could make it home for dinner without stopping every time we passed. *grin*
[ September 02, 2004, 09:03 AM: Message edited by: Christy ]
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
My mom used to drink pickle juice when I was in there.
And here I've wondered why I love pickles so much... (I've been known to drink the juice on occasion, I'm afraid to admit)
Posted by Beca (Member # 4340) on :
My mom ate tons of lemons. Sometimes salted, but usually plain.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
dawnmaria, when are you due?
TMedina, can we save that post for the sake of your future wife?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Snicker.
I'm already pretty well broken in, Romany. But if it makes you feel any better, you are more than welcome to preserve that posting for any future significant other.
-Trevor
Posted by AmkaProblemka (Member # 6495) on :
I did not have a sweet tooth, even though normally I love sweets. Baked sweets, for every pregnancy but this one, maybe me nauseous through out the whole prenancy. I can eat cake, a little, right now. But sweets with yeast are beyond my tolerance.
I also usually love hotdogs. Cannot eat them now. Same with popcorn.
Banana peels must be disposed of quickly, it the outside garbage. Slightly underipe bananas are not bad, though.
I never had strong cravings. Just strong anti-cravings. There are foods I won't allow in the house, now.
Wait: I've always liked tomato based things during pregnancy, especially italian sauces.
[ September 02, 2004, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: AmkaProblemka ]
Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
romanylass, I am due 11/5, but they told me this week that they will induce me. They want to go as close to my due date as possible, but now that we are going to start insulin and weekly monitoring I doubt that will happen. I wonder if they'd let me pick Halloween?! Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Milkshakes. Not milk, not ice cream, but Baskin Robbins milkshakes. mmmmmmmmm!
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Mom says: "Mango Ice Cream", when I was there inside. The funny thing is: although mango is a very common and cheap fruit here in Brazil, mango ICE CREAM was hard to find in the 70's. My father knew of only one place where he could buy it, and it was far away, like...1h. 30 min. by bus (he didn't have a car, then). And they didn't sell large portions (the kind you take home to eat later) so...my father says that when mother got pregnant the second time (mine being the first), the first thing he thought was "Damn! Mango Ice Cream again!"
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
quote: At the start of both of my pregnancies it was always Fried Chicken.
I forgot my most relentless craving, the one I could never let go. That was KFC mashed potatoes. I'd buy a large one, eat a trough out and fill the trough with gravy, usually finishing the whole thing off before we got home.
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