Cravings

[robert551069]

Did you have an cravings for food or drink in pregnancy? M wife had to have a regular supply of kippers/

[bednobs]

not really a craving, but i suddenly went off chocolate and onto fruit - one of the reasons i ended up weighing less at the end of all my pregnancies than at the beginning.
I also had a craving one day for rare roast beef

[Prudie]

Yes pickled red cabbage straight from the jar.

[FredPuli43]

Blimey,Prudie, I must be pregnant. I ate a whole 340gm jar of pickled red cabbage, straight from the jar, last night !

Several women of my mother's generation, including my aunt, reported a craving for coal. Don't hear so much of that now; people don't have coal so much, so it wouldn't be so easy to satisfy.

[ummmm]

Smash and beans.

[nungate]

Black pudding! I had my husband drive all over the county until we found a shop open (it was a Sunday 25 years ago) that sold black pudding

[Prudie]

Blimey Fred, you must admit that's a bit abnormal!

[sherrardk]

No cravings when pregnant, but in the days after they had been born I absolutely had to have loads of really sweet stuff (and I mean loads).

[Brinjal]

With my first it was fresh squeezes orange juice for breakfast, large chocolate milkshake for lunch and for dinner a huge plate of mashed potato.
With second it was lettuce with oil and vi gear dressing for lunch and 2/3 glass of coca cola. And it had to be 2/3 not full or half a glass and someone else had to pour it for me. So my poor houseboy had to learn quick where the mark on the glass was. I'm surprised I wasn't murdered I was a real cow.
Then with number three I would eat the sand that the termites leave on the trees .
These cravings only lasted the first trimester after that I was back to normal.

[Henry's Wife]

With my first child I craved - chalk!! And chocolate fingers in mayo!
2nd I just wanted - ice cream! Stupid amounts!! Also beet root covered in salad cream!!!
3rd I wanted ice! Again stupid amounts of it! My fella ended up buying an ice making machine to keep up with the demand! X

[starone]

Burnt toast for me. And when I say burnt I mean really black.

[Nini74]

not really a craving but always really fancied icing - my mate used to take a wander up to Greggs for me at lunchtime if i was fancying an iced bun. i did also eat loads and loads of fruit - but not sure if that was a craving as much as feeling the need to make sure i had lots of it.

[chrisgel]

In 1970 when my wife was expecting our first she woke me up at 2am and informed me that she wanted jelly babies. I walked 4 miles to the only all night garage in the area at the time and came back with a carrier bag full just in case.

[venator]

I craved alcohol - but I'm a bloke....

[DaisyNonna]

Avocado pears.

[tiggerblue10]

I had cravings for melon (honeydew, galia etc,.) when I was pregnant. I'm not keen on melon normally.

[pootler15]

Strawberries - really hard when out of season. When I was 8 months pregnant we went into a cafe and they didn't have any - but when I said I had a craving for them the assistant said they had some frozen ones and defrosted some for me - the taste was ecstasy! I hardly ever eat them now though!

[1PrincessPink]

So did I! My son loves kippers (he is now 19 and in university).