Healthy snack ideas!

*Summertime*

I'm (going by my dates ) 8 weeks pregnant and am feeling very sick (in the afternoons and evenings) and very light headed. I haven't been eating more than usual but I'm starting to think I should to keep my energy levels up as they have been really low lately.

The trouble is I'm quite fussy, and with the sick feeling I'm getting looking at a piece of fruit is making me feel worse! I am quite healthy, granary bread for breakfast, a granary bagel with cream cheese (are we allowed that?) and avacado (spelling?) topping for lunch with a small yoghurt and usually a peach and kiwi fruit.

Dinner varies but it usually includes baby spinach...

What are your diets like?

Sx

Bufger

Runny fried eggs on buttered toast
Undercooked (medium to rare) red meat with some kind of mash and veg
Beer and Cider

But then again im a bloke and not pregnant! I try to hide my meals from my OH so she doesnt feel bad (but seriously, dont you just miss runny eggs already? they're amazing! :rotfl:)

*Summertime*

Apparently we have to make sure our eggs are fully cooked before eating them....good job I hate eggs anyway!!

**confuzzled**

*Summertime* wrote: »

I'm (going by my dates ) 8 weeks pregnant and am feeling very sick (in the afternoons and evenings) and very light headed. I haven't been eating more than usual but I'm starting to think I should to keep my energy levels up as they have been really low lately.

The trouble is I'm quite fussy, and with the sick feeling I'm getting looking at a piece of fruit is making me feel worse! I am quite healthy, granary bread for breakfast, a granary bagel with cream cheese (are we allowed that?) and avacado (spelling?) topping for lunch with a small yoghurt and usually a peach and kiwi fruit.

Dinner varies but it usually includes baby spinach...

What are your diets like?

Sx

Crikey my diets no where near as good as that:o
I'm just over 11weeks pg and my day is usually
brekkie = bowl of shreddies and a cuppa
lunch = sandwich of some description(usually ham/corned beef/jam) depends what I think I can hold down for the day:o and a bag of crisps and some fruit(thats the healthy part;))
tea = whatever I can manage to be honest as this is when the nausea hits me the most, so long as its bland and filling I can normally eat half a plates worth of food and I try and follow that with a yoghurt if I can, if not then a milky drink(horlicks) which will fill me up and settle the stomach a little.
I'm pretty much just eating what i can manage and what i fancy, which at the moment is bland carb-orific foods(potato & bread are my friends:)) must be doing the trick as I haven't put on any weight yet:j
oh nearly forgot, snack = plums/kiwis/oranges, anything thats sweet really as my treat is fruit atm as any processed sugars(chocloate etc) I can't stand:eek:

Plenty of water too as I've found I get headaches a lot easier now which is down to me not drinking enough!

bufger thats just mean:mad: I'd love a rare steak:drool:, oh and I do miss my dippy egg and soldiers:( but its worth it, I guess:D oh and come summer not having a glass of cider is gonna be sooooooooooo hard......if anyone has found any decent alternatives I'd be happy to know what they are:D:D:D

Bufger

**confuzzled** wrote: »

bufger thats just mean:mad: I'd love a rare steak:drool:, oh and I do miss my dippy egg and soldiers:( but its worth it, I guess:D oh and come summer not having a glass of cider is gonna be sooooooooooo hard......if anyone has found any decent alternatives I'd be happy to know what they are:D:D:D

The perfect alternative is a Mr Whippy ice cream!

Oh, not allowed that either :eek::A:(

Seriously, im glad i cant get pregnant. I think you'll have to see if you're allowed those fizzy wine/beer pretenders. Is schloer one of them? i cant remember if thats alcoholic or not. I imagine that with ice will still be nice (im even ryhming now, woo)

**confuzzled**

Bufger wrote: »

The perfect alternative is a Mr Whippy ice cream!

Oh, not allowed that either :eek::A:(

Seriously, im glad i cant get pregnant. I think you'll have to see if you're allowed those fizzy wine/beer pretenders. Is schloer one of them? i cant remember if thats alcoholic or not. I imagine that with ice will still be nice (im even ryhming now, woo)

Ooo you are a poet and you didn't know it:rotfl::rotfl:

Ha we can have Mr Whippy and McFlurrys:p I just checked and they're pasteurised:j
yeah we can have schloer but its too sweet for me! Will have to go sample the delights of alcohol-free beverages at my local supermarkets:D

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

TBH i was pretty ill at that stage so litterally ate and drank whatever i could keep down. I couldn't even keep water down so was sipping lemonade all day. Plain things were ok for me too - as i was so ill healthy eating went out of the window. Smells of food even set me off.

Don't worry to much at the mo. Midwife has regularly told me this as she knew i was generally very very healthy when it came to food. If i could only eat plain crisps and sip lemonade then do it she'd say. As soon as i passed the sickness (sadly not until 20wks - same with my daughter ) then i was glad to be back on good healthy food. This baby is doing well and daughter came out perfectly healthy too and she enjoys a healthy diet. I was actually on a mainly vegetarian diet with her (not through choice, couldn't stomach meat but fish was ok) but i felt great for it

Now i am back on track this preg - wholemeal foods, plenty of fruit and veg....in fact i love veg and salad now. I eat fish alot and meat is kept to a minimal - if i do eat meat its cooked from fresh - never proccessed Keep your iron levels nice and high that's the only thing - so spinach, but also some OJ (vit c to help absorb it).

Sounds like you are doing fine so far though

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

**confuzzled** wrote: »

yeah we can have schloer but its too sweet for me! Will have to go sample the delights of alcohol-free beverages at my local supermarkets:D

Morrisons do a nice wine like drink - similar to Schloer but not as sweet, elderflower and grape i think - they have others too. Stick it in a wine glass and pretend, lol - i do!:p

Oh and Cobra Zero is vile....my craving is Fosters so i have been trying out the zero % beers....the only thing that relieves it is a weak Fosters shandy This time round i don't mind giving in to one of those occasionally.

LuceB84

Confuzzled- Kopperberg do an alcohol free pear cider Found it in Tesco the other day. Tastes just like the real stuff as well

Bufger

LuceB84 wrote: »

Confuzzled- Kopperberg do an alcohol free pear cider Found it in Tesco the other day. Tastes just like the real stuff as well

NICE ONE! my OH will love this, she misses her cider and likes the pear stuff, i'll get it as a treat for her when shes next feeling down.

tiamai_d

I had a roll and slice sausage every day at 10.30am (except one day the canteen ran out and I cried), then a sandwich for lunch and a small dinner, with DD. Oh and 5 cans of tuna a week and that was me limiting myself!

With DS2 I lived on 4 or 5 potato wedges a day if I was lucky till well after 24 weeks.

DS1 I ate as normal.

You eat what you can, when you can. Don't worry about weight gain. So long as you are not having ice cream after every snack, you will be fine.

You can have cream cheese btw so long as it's pasteurised. Most of what they say to avoid can be eaten if you are sensible. Read up on it and make your own decisions.