I can't eat veg! I want junk food!

Gingham_Ribbon

I've got pregnancy sickness. It's not too bad, but I'm losing a bit of weight and spending a LOT of money on food I normally wouldn't touch if you paid me. I can't keep anything decent down and I can't stand the smell of bread or vegetables. I won't let DH use the breadmaker because of the smell and I am giving away the veg from my garden.

Please don't give me any medical advice about the sickness. It's against Martin's rules and would result in the thread being locked. Here's what I need if you can help, so I don't end up spending a fortune and eating rubbish.

This is what I'm eating. I'm looking for ways of making them more cheaply:

Deep fried tofu in sweet and sour sauce
Egg fried rice
Vegetarian spring rolls (my one and only source of vegetables!)
Angel delight
Viennese whirl biscuits
Ginger beer

I am okay with crackers and cheese, pasta with cheese sauce and taco shells but can no longer eat the lentils I was putting in them. I can manage fruit if I juice it. I'm not sure I can do this any cheaper so it's really just the list in bold. Any help would be gratefully received.

Anne_Marie_2

You poor wee thing.

Angel delight - don't buy the real stuff, try the shop's own brand - tastes just the same and cheaper. Do you eat jelly? If so make up a jelly and whisk in tin of carnation milk, comes up as a mousse - huge bowl.

Egg Fried Rice
Boil some rice, drain and rinse, allow to drain very well.
Beat up egg with some salt and pepper, I often omit salt and add splash of soya sauce instead.
Know you are not eating veggies, I usually add some sliced onions and some other veg - if using prepare veg into thin slices - or omit altogether.
Also I sometimes add garlic and some 5 spice powder - but leave this out to if you can't face it.

In wok or deep frying pan - heat some oil until fairly hot. Bung in egg, and make a sort of omelette, just takes seconds. Put onto a plate and cut into strips.
You may have to add more oil to wok now.
If using onion or/and veg add to wok now, onions first, quick stir fry, then other veg - toss about for few mins. Add garlic and pinch of 5 spice powder.
Add well drained rice - stir fry until heated through thoroughly, then add egg strips - you can add some soya sauce if you like. That's about it.

Off to look for some tofu recipes for you, and sure I got one for ginger beer somewhere.

Gingham_Ribbon

Bless you, Anne Marie. The fried rice sounds manageable. The jelly got me thinking. I didn't check if the angel delight was vegetarian as the last time I had it I wasn't one. (18 years ago.) Oh heck! Not another thing I can't eat! I'm okay with hot milk on cornflakes and morrisons 'hot oat cereal' too, but not ordinary porridge!

Katgoddess

What about gingerbread? You mentioned you can have ginger beer.

This recipe is fabulous: http://www.greenchronicle.com/recipes/ginger_sponge_cake.htm

Sarahsaver

Blancmange is ok, my kids loved it and it is cheaper. I have also recently made jelly with milk instead of water and they liked that too.
Good luck sweetie, I had cravings for lemon juice, salt and vinegar crisps and guinness, as well as sunny delight, which I now detest!
Celebrated the advent of labour of both my boys with a chicken kebab with extra chilli sauce!
Egg fried rice just cook your rice, scramble an egg, add a splash of soy sauce and sesame oil and put the rice back in.

Gingham_Ribbon

Going to try to get my mum onto the gingerbread for me. Thanks for the tip. I KNOW I'd be fine with it!

Caterina

Can you tolerate peas, finely chopped carrots and other veg in egg fried rice?

You could try cooking and pureeing carrots and eat them as a pudding with a bit of honey, they are sweet and very easy on the stomach. If you can stand it, some sesame seeds would add protein and calcium.

Drink peppermint tea, notoriously good for morning sickness (this is not medical advice, more like tried and tested old wives' tale!).

Best of luck, I remember the morning sickness well and it is very debilitating. With some luck it should pass after 16 to 20 weeks and then you will BLOOM!

I'll never forget GORGING on spring onions after giving birth to the twins, free of sickness and heartburn - don't worry, it seems ages now but it will go faster than you think!

Caterina

Lorian

Try fresh fruit if you can't keep veg down. And try Fennel tea (teabags from most health food shops or supermarkets).

cha97michelle

Congratulations on the pregnancy first of all.

I have had a similar thing. I have been able to eat shop bought bread, but i've only just managed to get back near my Breadmaker at 27 weeks. I couldn't eat bread at all until i reached 12 weeks.

I was worried about my fruit and veg consumption. I found i really liked yoghurt coated raisins, and i could manage dried fruit, particularly berries or banana chips added to wheetabix or porridge.

In the early days, i coped by eating something as a snack every two hours. I could manage shop bought cereal bars, and i also made some flapjacks with extra ginger powder in them. It was a bit of a competition though as to who ate them first - me or DH.

I could also manage tinned fruit, and home grown stuff made into crumbles.

I have a bit of a thing for potatoes in any form, perhaps you could try mashing up some veg into that, or a veggie soup.

Hope that it eases off for you soon. I think my problem now is i've eaten so much sweet food that i have really bad sugar cravings, so i am still eating rubbish for England.

Take care,
Michelle. x

lynzpower

get as much ginger in as you can, as this combats nausea.

You can slice up root ginger with a dash of lemon juice & honey which will help to settle your stomach.

Are you OK with other deep fried stuff ( personally, i know this is terrible, but anything deep fried I love) In farmfoods,they are doing TSING TAO mini veggie spring rolls a massive box for 1.75, lots of the takeaways round here sell them for way more. Get hold of some of those.ALbeit not muhc veg in them.

If you can tolerate that sort of thing, then other deep fried treasures might be an idea, what about something like tempura or deep fried onion rings, mushrooms? Any of the stuff that usually comes on those veggie platters at harvester style places? Chips? If you can handle this what about veggie samosas? Or is that not going to happen? once you get down this route, you could deep fry slices of aubergine or courgette in batter too? HAve you tried something like those birds eye veg fingers? or a beanburger just on its own? or is this not going to happen? If you can do taco shells could you do nachos-cheese, guacamole, salsa? or crispy Sweetcorn fritters?

What about slices of toasted brown pitta. when I feel sick ( which I do frequently) pitta with a mild salsa or even a sliver peanut butter usually sorts me out.

Or stuff like ritz crackers? and tiny scraps of cheese. If you can do pasta could you do it in a passata based tom sauce, so there is at least some semblence of fibre in there even if its not atual veg?

Anyway, not sure if this helps, but good luckwith the rest of your pregancy, if you want junk, its all you can eat, just embrace it, its only for a few months and wont kill you, heavens some people eat like this thier whole lives!

Anne_Marie_2

2 gallons boiling water -- 256 oz.
2 lemon -- thinly sliced
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
2 pounds sugar, granulated
2 ounces ginger -- chopped
1/2 teaspoon yeast

Boil the water in a stainless steel or enamel pot. Add all remaining ingredients except the yeast. Simmer 20 minutes. Cool to lukewarm and taste. Add more ginger for a livelier flavour. Dissolve yeast in one cup of the mixture and stir back in. Cover and allow to ferment 34-36 hours at 65-70F, i.e. mix it in the morning and bottle the next evening. When a slight white skin of foam appears on the top of the brew it is ready to bottle. Siphon or pour into sterlized bottles removing any lemon slices. After capping age the bottles upright for one week at 60-65F then store in the refrigerator or cool room below 60F. Cool storage is very important, or you may get exploding bottles! Instead of sliced lemons you may use 4 tbsp. lemon juice. Instead of chopped ginger you may use 4 tsp. powdered ginger.