OS recipes for a pregnant lady??

clarebelle

Hello there,
I am currently 13 weeks pregnant and am still very much in the icky, morning sicknessy, yucky feeling stage! I cook every night for my husband and 2 year old daughter but i have found it really difficult to cook anything that i can stomach eating myself!

The problem i have is the smells. standing over the cooker, cooking whatever it is, by the time its finished i feel so sick i cant bare to eat it! Take aways have been lovely as even though they are pretty smelly i cant eat them straight away so it doesn't effect me in the same way! What im hoping for is some simple, family recipes that arnt particualy smelly or that i can cook quickly or that dont need me to check on them very much!

Maybe some of you mothers had the same problem and found some tasty meal solutions?

Last night i remembered a meal i used to make for myself when i was a teenager and mum was away! It was basically home-made egg fried rice with cut up bacon and a generous glub of soy sauce. really cheap, simple and filling and i woofed it down for the first time in over a month! (the eggs were smelly but go it right at the end!)

any ideas would be apreciated! thank you in advance!

Chuzzle

I had the same problem when I was pregnant....my cure was to get my OH to cook instead! 9 months of beans on toast and now I can't stand beans on toast! lol my kids are now 16 & 11.

Boodle

Hi - sorry you are feeling rotten but congratulations! I felt the same in the first few months but am luckily a lot better now. I was lucky that my DH made more meals around then, if only for the two of them cos I didn't fancy anything at all. When I did make something, it was a case of making something I was able to eat and if DH didn't like it he could have a turkey steak or some bacon with or something

Things you might be able to manage are:

Pasta with either a plain tomato sauce (try a simple squirt of tomato puree and drizzle of mild olive or sunflower oil if that is too rich) or dressed with just a little oil. Crunchy refreshing salad I found helped (in fact i had just a bowl of undressed crunchy lettuce, cucumber and celery for my lunch practically every day, sometimes for dinner, in the first weeks.) Or perhaps throw some veg in to cook with the pasta.

Couscous with kidney beans and sweetcorn, dressed with a little oil if you can have it.

Peanut butter or toast or crackers

Pitta bread stuffed with tinned kidney beans and salad.

smiler34

Hi hun congrats on pregnancy. If you're struggling cause of having to watch over meals why not get hold of a cheap slow cooker that way you can just bung in ingredients and leave it until it's ready, plus you can include plenty of veg which will be good for baby HTH x

P.S. as your 13 weeks this shouldn't last much longer if your anything like I was with my son then you won't be able to stop eating in a few weeks lol

P.P.S. Think someone mentioned peanut butter on this thread but if you have any asthma, exzema or allergies in your family you should avoid peanuts

clarebelle

thanks for the tips! keep them coming!

I would love to get my OH to cook, but he is absolutely rubbish! he really has no idea and doesn't really have the creative spark to try out new things. plus he works and i don't so he gets in at 5pm so doesn't really have time to make dinner.

but then, maybe its about time he learnt to cook! he could at least do it at weekends!

Boodle

clarebelle wrote: »

thanks for the tips! keep them coming!

I would love to get my OH to cook, but he is absolutely rubbish! he really has no idea and doesn't really have the creative spark to try out new things. plus he works and i don't so he gets in at 5pm so doesn't really have time to make dinner.

but then, maybe its about time he learnt to cook! he could at least do it at weekends!

Mine too! Some evenings he got in at 6, but those evenings i made something i could bear like pasta or beans on toast for dd, then he could make something for himself/us either on his own or following instruction when he got in. I mean really, it is the least they can do!

smiler34

My OH is just the same, he keeps threatening to cook things but he can only really manage things you can bung in oven and leave lol

Boodle

Something that might be useful to you too: I have started writing down how to make our usual meals so that when our new baby arrives, if OH has to make dinner one night, he can look at the meal plan stuck to the fridge, then look in the notebook so he can throw it together. Bless him, he is good

mumoftwo

How about a quick stir fry with noodles (the ones that go straight to wok)
some chicken or steak cut up small (or bought that way, my butcher cut the steak for me in thin pieces), add any veg that you like, leek, peppers, some petit pois, throw in the noodles, add soya sauce and some chinese spices.
Quick and not too smelly.

Congratulations hun, I know how you feel, I couldn't stand the smell of cooking either, I used to fling something in the oven or under the grill and run out of the kitchen, heaving. Couldn't stand the look and smell of raw meat and bread
hopefully it will soon pass and then you might get cravings and just have to have a certain food, mine was tomatoes by the poundful !

smiler34

Boodle wrote: »

Something that might be useful to you too: I have started writing down how to make our usual meals so that when our new baby arrives, if OH has to make dinner one night, he can look at the meal plan stuck to the fridge, then look in the notebook so he can throw it together. Bless him, he is good

Me and Oh had that idea just need to get round to it, I always feel guilty getting him to cook when he has worked all day :rolleyes: Saying that my dad likes to cook whenever he gets chance and he works full time, he's always throwing stuff in slow cooker night before for tea, where have men like this gone?!?!?

Nicki

Hi, I'm 8 weeks and have been having the same problem.

We've been eating a lot of scrambled egg and toast in this house. Also went through a very bad week when it was takeaway every night. Following that, I went to supermarket and bought a load of cook chills which could be frozen and cooked from frozen so that on the nights I didn't fancy cooking, we could at least have something cheaper than a take away. Funnily enough, that seemed to help, and we didn't actually eat any of them yet, but I've been more up to cooking.

On nights where I am more up to cooking, I've been cooking double or triple portions so that I have extras to freeze, for the not so good nights. I've done things like meatballs, stews, etc. The slow cooker has been good for this, as once you've done the chopping and browning off, then you can just leave it to do the cooking without any more messing around. It helps if you can do it on a day when you are out of the house though if the smells of cooking get to you. Also quick meals, like baked potatoes with a can of tuna, a piece of grilled steak in a baguette, etc are not too taxing.

Good luck. The icky period always feels like it will last forever, doesn't it (I'm on baby no 3) but it does eventually pass, only then you are too knackered to cook until the baby is at least 6 months old!