What kind of food cravings did you (or your wife or significant other) have while pregnant?

I wanted spicy mexican food with my first pregnancy. With the second, I was so sick I needed vitamin shots from the midwife every other day, but found that I craved sour patch kid candy. A few days of nibbling on those made me able to start eating other, healthier food!

With boy number one.. it was milkshakes and meat. I wanted steak and a milkshake for dinner like every night lol With boy number two.. it was fruit, peaches and nectarines in particular which is odd as normally I'm not a huge fan of either one.

When I was pregnant I ate cucumber ranch salad dressing on everything! With one pregnancy I craved those cherry slush puppy slushes I drank probably 2 or 3 a day. Those are the only cravings I remember.

What is really weird is I love to cook out and while I was pregnant with my youngest son I could not stand the smell of meat cooking on the grill. It made me so sick that I wouldn't be able to eat. Chicken or fish was OK but red meat would make me sick.

I think my food cravings were pretty regular during both of my pregnancies. During my first one, my then husband-to-be introduced me to the Chicken Sandwich from Burger King (I grew up in Germany and feel almost odd to say that I had only eating at BK twice before meeting my husband who was stationed at a military base there) and I quickly developed a taste for the savory chicken breast added to the sandwich. I also loved eating Doritos dipped into chocolate ice cream.

I think that was one of the more crazy cravings. Then during my second pregnancy I had a big craving for fresh fruit (which was great, since that is exactly what you should be eating during this important time), but I also developed a great aversion to any type of veggie. I loved the little mandarin oranges and could just go vampire on a slice of watermelon.

But I developed another silly craving AFTER my second child was born. Because of the added stress of raising a newborn and a Kindergartner by myself for one year (my husband was deployed to Iraq at the time), I found myself yearning for sweets. And I grew accustomed to eating a box of large McDonald fries with a cup of vanilla milkshake (dipping the fries in the milkshake, of course).

After my little son turned 5 months old, however, and after I found I had not only gained back the 20 pounds of pregnancy weight I had lost almost immediately after birth, but also an additional 5 lbs, I quickly said goodbye to this calorie-rich habit and starved myself for 3 months to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight.

It wasn't necessarily the what, but the when. I would wake up in the middle of the night, starving for nachos or chicken nuggets. It was so bad I would drag my pregnant butt out to get them.

I quickly learned where the 24 hour McDonald's was.

I don't remember it al but I do remember the salami, ice cream, fruit and chocolate, P&B sandwiches with the different pregnancies she had. I don't remember the combos.

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