morning sick mamas - what are you eating?

[napless]

What tastes good to you? (Or, more realistically, what are you able to eat?) I especially need some ideas for supper. My family needs to be fed - and they can eat only so many frozen perogies!

Besides perogies, I am "enjoying":

-peanut butter and pickle sandwiches (must be dill pickles)
-tapioca pudding
-oatmeal cookies (homemade, not very sweet)
-pasta (but not tomato sauce)
-grilled cheese sandwiches
-apples
-mashed potatoes

Let's share our ideas!

[TranscendentalMom]

anything with mustard on it.

ginger ale seems to be helping

[CathToria]

I am also havig a hard time eating. The thought of meat and vegetables are so unappealing to me right now. Some of my favorite meals have been:

mashed potatoes with cottage cheese and cheddar cheese
pizza
fish tacos
turkey sandwiches with avacado


I have been eating a lot of cheese and crackers, and drinking a lot of milk.. though I had planned to limit my dairy consumption this pg :irked: . Hopefull other food groups will appeal to me in a few weeks :thumb

[melixxa]

Drinking water with lemon squeezed into it - it's the only liquid I can get down. Except for - in the middle of the night (when insomnia has me lying there worrying for hours, then I start to feel famished) - a bit of lowfat chocolate milk mixed 1/2 with fat free milk. I suppose it's suspicious that the chocolate goes down but the regular doesn't, but oh well.

Yoghurt
Bagels with cream cheese and lox (am I supposed to be eating lox? can't remember.)
For breakfast most days: Cream of wheat with a little brown sugar for flavor (this has lots of iron and folic acid, which is good since I can't get the prenatal horse pill down.)
French toast French toast French toast!
Pancakes
Mashed potatoes - am also craving sweet potato but haven't had any yet.
Cooked (to a mush!) carrots went down pretty well.
Whole wheat veggie pizza with very little red sauce
Puddings
Berry pie (craving!)
Cheese sandwiches with avocado
Vietnamese veggie hot and sour soup (with tofu, lemongrass, etc.) and shrimp crystal rolls (the best takeout)
Veggie dogs, plain and cold with mustard
Apple slices with cheese slices (Havarti)
Oranges and bananas

I guess few of these are good dinner ideas. Truth be told, I just want to eat cheese and potato dishes for my meals. We had pirogies yesterday, too!

[Keetsmama]

I second the cheese and potato dishes. Macaroni and cheese (try to do Annie's) goes down best. I can eat small amounts of meat, not many veggies.

Really am not eating so healthy. Just a lot of prepackaged food, because I just have no desire to cook. I do eat some fruit though.

bananas and milk
oatmeal
cold cereal
mac n cheese (as above)
potatoes au gratin
peanuts (sometimes)

[calebsmama03]

Umm, choc chip cookies :innocent (see above thread)

I'm finally starting to get better, but oddly enough the things that have been best for me are SUPER spicey/hot! For some reason bland = gagging for me :( I agree that meat and veggies are the least appealing to me right now - so much for a healthy diet! Others that I'm eating a lot now are:
oatmeal (made with milk and with lots of cinnamon and honey)
mac and cheese (with hot peppers mixed in!)
grilled cheese sandwhich
almond butter on english muffins
choc milk

That's about it :( Also having a tough time swallowing the vitamin/probiotic supplements right now without gagging. But I'm 11 weeks now and am feeling pukey less and less, so hopefully the end is in sight!

[newlife]

Well I don't know what you could feed your family. As for me I ate anthing that I wanted to eat when I had morning sickness, there is just a way to do it. Here were my rules:

- Do not drink anything at least 30 minutes before eating

- Do not drink anything while eating

- Do not drink anthing for at least 30 minutes after eating

- When you do eat, take small bites, and chew for 30 seconds (well count to 30 slowly in your mind, the food will taste watery when going down, but it will stop you from vomiting)

- Don't drink orange juice (I found that for me, it triggered stomach aches, and bouts of throwing up)

- Always keep plain saltine crackers near your bed (okay people have been saying that they helps for years, well they really do), when you feel queasy eat about 3 or 4 of them

- Keep a plastic bucket that you wouldn't mind throwing away, at the foot of your bed, parellel to where you lie your head. (For those times when you can't make it to the bathroom)


And thats it. But you can pretty much eat what you want. Just make sure that the smell is not too strong. And try to mix up the foods that you eat. I know it is great to find one thing that won't make you hurl, but eating it over and over will do just that.

[jensoko]

I envy you all. I want so badly to have food with flavor in it (read: tomatoes), but the slightest acidic content of any food triggers an instant heave-up with me. Even stuff that's too sweet now will set me off.

I'm eating potato soup, mashed potatoes, occasionally Annies quick mac 'n' cheese, bananas, and yogurt, but only flavors like peach and strawberry banana, because the really tart fruity ones don't sit as well with me. Plain cheerios with milk stays down, but leaves an awful taste in the back of my throat, and drinking too much water turns me into the Amazing Ralph.

My poor family--let's not even go into that. My son gets salami and cheese sandwiches (something he's loved since before birth), yogurt I don't eat, nuked frozen chicken nuggets, and the occasional scrambled eggs when I can stand to cook anything. I literally cannot stand over the stove and cook anything without wanting to pass out or heave-up.

I'm a bad mother. :crying Fortunately, I've got a good hubby and we have an excellent sandwich place really close by. :thumb

[peacenlove]

I second the ginger ale, it has helped me more than anything! I am glad to see I'm not the only one not able to eat tomatoes, I have just about had it with the bland food now too. I eat oatmeal most mornings, my ds is crazy about it and wants it every day. I can so relate to wanting to barf when at the stove. I have felt like the worst mom in the world, especially around 6-10 weeks, I could not get out of bed between 5-7 pm. I am now 13 weeks and thankfully the ms is almost completly gone! I am only sick about once a week now :thumb woo hoo!

I have not been able to eat or cook garlic untill this week, and I still have super senses, I can smell things two rooms away. I am so glad it's starting to cool down around here and hope I don't have to smell cut grass again!(that made me gag more than anything, except the garbage!)
:love kathleen

[iamama]

Wow I am so happy to see that I'm not the only one throwing out the healthy food and just eating whatever sounds good. Bagels and cream cheese has been a popular one lately. Eggs which I used to eat everyday make me want to vomit. Meat and salads both yucky. The other day at costco I was able to eat so many different things it was all so good. They had salad, chicken taquitos, orange juice tons of stuff I left there full. I can hardly stand to cook anything. I feel so bad for my family. But this too shall pass, right?? Some days I feel sick and can't eat and some days I only feel good when munching. Today is the later. This pregnancy has been nothing like the last.

Heres my list
bagels and cream cheese
apples and peanut butter
cheese and crackers
baked potatoe
oh I think I'll have one right now!

[annh]

Pretzels always worker great for me with my morning/all day sickness.