General Chat

just curious as to wat weird and wonderful things us women craved during pregnancy..... mine well get a bucket ready hot freshly baked french stick full of cottage cheese ,marmite and salad ewww turns my stomach now i can eat them seperatly but together yuk but my not so yukky craving was a family bag of m&m's (peanut or plain wasnt fussy) every night no wonder i gained 3 stone limmie xxx

4 pregnancies and different things each time Weirder ones included Zest Lemon Soap and Lisol Disenfectant, used to make my mouth water! LOL Christine

with my first i went mad for sandwiches,well you did ask, wait for it TUNA, BANANA, PICKLED CABBAGE AND GERKINS. my second was PIE AND MASH WITH MUSHY PEAS my third was EGGS my fourth was ANYTHING my fifth was KEBABS WITH THE LOT

Hi lisa' mine was crisp's, my daugher cant get enough beetroot .

mine was chewing gum with my first,boxes upon boxes of smarties with my second and i cant remember what craved with the other 2 lol susie

1st. anything in vinagar 2nd. oranges 3rd. ice cream

I didn't even have the pregnancy excuse! When I was little I used to LOVE marmite and lemon curd sandwiches! Can't imagine how that got started! My Mam had endless cups of hot choc when she was expecting me--consequently I was the fattest baby in the family--10lb 2oz!

Strawberries with both of them, buckets and buckets! Hated toast and tea and coffee. A friend of mine would sniff windowleen! And with my daughter pear drops, pickled gherkins and vinegar - I could drink it! Abigail

Could we do a survey of sex linked cravings? I have a theory that little girls make you crave acidic foods... What do you think? Abigail

Coke and Mars Bars loads of them with my son and Crab Claws and Guinness with my son LOL Debs.

im not sure abigail 1 thing i do now is that i have 2 girls and i couldnt get enough of marmite with both of them limmie xxx

Many years ago my pregnant neighbour gave me her coal shed key to keep (luckily it was summer) as her husband had found her in the coalshed several times eating the small shiny pieces of coal. My craving was normal - chips but only at 2.00 a.m. and my son I had a thirst I could not quench - went off tea and coffee but was staying with my aunt and g.ma middle of Feb in Hull watching the snow blizzard, drinking orange squash made with iced water and sucking ice cubes with g.ma crying 'this baby will be born with pnemonia'!

geez some of these cravings r nasty lol i do remember eating a jar of gherkins with my 2nd but i was sick so bad i never gave in to the craving again lol limmie xxx

i craved chocolate and cool orginal doritos... went off tea and chips up until a few months before i was due...the only i could really drink was cherryade....

With both my girls I craved Polos.... packs and packs of them !! If I didn't have them, Colgate toothpaste.... it had to be Colgate, and I'd eat it straight from the tube !! Andrea :o)

The brain is a marvellous organ. Not only does it register when the body in deficient in nutrients (in pregnancy there is often a deficiency in minerals normally required only in minute quantities eg boron, selenium etc etc) but it sets up a craving for those chemicals. Even better, it usually knows where such nutrients are likely to be found and directs the attention there. len

1st - green apples, lettuce and salad cream sandwiches, but went off butter and milk. 2nd - celery (which I had always hated until then) 3rd - burnt toast (the blacker the better!) Weird thing is, I still love all of the above especially the burnt toast! Frances

I had no cravings with my first, just went off crisps. With my second I ate loads and loads of apples. How boring!! Joanne

well with my 1st it was wait for it picked gerkins with choc ice cream with my second chicken curry with my 3rd spag bol they where all boy's with this 1 it seem's to be orange peel & gravy with everything

with my first i craved jaffa cakes (4 boxes a day) bananas & for dinner i used to have a bowl of pasta with brussel sprouts & onion gravy. once she was born i then craved indian curries which i had never eaten before i then realised i was pregnant again when i went off the curries and fancied plain boiled potatoes with loads of salad cream, i also munched my way through the local shops supplies of fruit pastelles ( the only thing that kept the morning sickness at bay).