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One of my best friends is having a baby in about… oh…
1. Ice
2. Coal
3. Toothpaste
4. Sponges
5. Mud
6. Chalk
7. Laundry Soap
8. Matches
9. Starch
10. Rubber
Other strange cravings that didn’t quite break the top ten include bricks, newspapers and raw sausages.
Here’s a bonus list for you today: celebrity cravings.
1. Britney Spears – reportedly craved dirt.
2. Victoria Beckham – smoked salmon.
3. Tina Fey – Entemann’s mini chocolate donuts.
4. Minnie Driver – olives. She didn’t specify whether she had a preference as to green or black.
5. Jennifer Lopez – salsa, M&Ms and orange soda.
6. Angelina Jolie – Reese’s Pieces.
7. Madonna – poached eggs.
8. Rebecca Romijn – lemonade and soy cream cheese.
9. Gwen Stefani – Tabasco. OK magazine said she carried a little bottle of Tabasco around in her purse during her pregnancy and used it on everything.
10. Katie Holmes – cupcakes.
I’m intrigued to see what I crave when I get pregnant one of these days… I experience some strange cravings as it is. There was one winter where I could not get enough grapefruit. I was eating it a couple of times a day for like six weeks. Anyway, be sure to share your (or your significant other’s, or your mom’s, or your sister’s… whatever) weird pregnancy cravings in the comments. Whoever offers up the one we deem weirdest wins a free onesie or tee from the mental_floss store!
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Not necessarily weird, but the connections in later life for my sister and me has all of us amused.
My mother craved Oreos when she was expecting my older sister. Now, whenever my sister sad or blue, she craves Oreos.
Mom says she didn’t really *crave* anything with me, but she did seem to eat an inordinate amount of broccoli. Now, that is one of my favorites.
posted by Laura. on 2-17-2009 at 3:37 pm
My wife is pregnant with our second child. Both times she has gone around with Tums fruit smoothies in her purse, she pops them like they are candy. (She would readily tell you her OB/GYN said it was OK, and they contain calcium.)
We were driving to New Orleans last December to recreate our honeymoon when she had an emergency, she was out of TUMS Fruit Smoothies.
I pulled into a gas station and bought a small roll of original Tums. I gave it to her thinking I was a great husband, she then started crying, threw the TUMS at my head and tearfully said, “They aren’t fruit smoothies!” (I knew this, but it was the only kind the gas station had.)
We then drove half an hour out of the way to find a small town in Louisiana with a grocery store that carried TUMS Fruit Smoothies.
posted by Witty Nickname on 2-17-2009 at 3:51 pm
Mine was a one shot deal, but one day I had a VERY urgent need for Gatorade. I walked out of a meeting, immediately drove to the closest gas station, purchased a bottle and proceeded to chug it there at the register. Thank goodness those big bellies excuse us from some crazy behavior…
My sister-in-law craved gasoline. To this day my niece loves the smell of gas.
posted by Kristy on 2-17-2009 at 3:51 pm
Not a strange craving, but I did crave pizza.
posted by Vickey on 2-17-2009 at 3:53 pm
My sister-in-law craved fruit. Like, orchard-razing quantities of fruit. I watched her devour POUNDS of grapes and strawberries one day in her first trimester.
Less healthy, my former boss craved GREASE. She would go to a fast-food drive-thru, order some burgers, toss out the buns and literally suck the grease out of the patties. Ick.
posted by Kikadee on 2-17-2009 at 3:56 pm
I was living in Leadville, CO at 2 miles high while I was pregnant! My crazy cravings were pumpkin pie – with or without whip cream, fudge ice cream pops and orange fanta soda.
posted by grjctlinda on 2-17-2009 at 4:00 pm
The ice craving is also a common occurrence of people who are anemic.
posted by Dru on 2-17-2009 at 4:07 pm
I craved peeled spiced shrimp dipped in chocolate frozen yogurt. I also had to have applesauce with EVERY meal and baked beans with ground beef at least twice a week.
posted by adm on 2-17-2009 at 4:10 pm
With both of my pregnancies I had a ‘one shot deal.’
The first craving was watermelon. It was the middle of the winter and I saw sliced watermelon in the grocery store and knew I WOULD die if I didn’t have it. Went home, ate the entire package, and never craved it again.
The second pregnancy gave me a craving–immediate, intense, and URGENT–of NEEDING a bottle of Orange Crush. Drank the Orange Crush, was satisfied, and never craved again.
posted by cmk on 2-17-2009 at 4:10 pm
The ice craving is also a common occurrence for people who are anemic.
posted by Dru on 2-17-2009 at 4:10 pm
Cottage cheese and peaches with my first one.
Had to have fresh cherries with the second one, but it was winter in Colorado and they were impossible to find, so I would eat cherry pie filling right out of the can.
posted by iamams on 2-17-2009 at 4:20 pm
My wife was a grapefruit fiend when she was pregnant with our daughter. She’d eat a one-quart jar of pink grapefruit (had to be pink) twice a day for what seemed like months. I remember regarding her sort of like Ron Burgundy looked at Baxter after he ate the whole wheel of cheese.
She also had horrible morning sickness well into her second trimester. I tried to be a supportive husband, but I never could understand how she could retch and then make me drive to the grocery store for a half-gallon of Moose Tracks ice cream, which she’d promptly demolish.
We struck a deal, though. I’d go to Publix at any time for any weird craving she had, no questions asked, so long as I could make an extra stop for whatever microbrew caught my eye at the liquor store.
posted by Peter on 2-17-2009 at 4:20 pm
In my first trimester I craved chocolate cake, the craving eventually passed, but gave way to a greater craving…
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a side of sliced black olives in the juice, and a banana. I was so particular though, it had to be on white bread, extra crunchy Jiff peanut butter, and Welch’s grape jelly (strawberry was srictly for toast). I could instantly tell if anything wasn’t what it should be. It’s also ironic because we almost named our daughter Olive, but only because of the movie Little Miss Sunshine, not because of my cravings. Now my daughter loves all three of those foods, though thankfully not together!
posted by leelee on 2-17-2009 at 4:22 pm
My mom claims that, when pregnant with me, she craved the cigarette ashes in ash trays. She was not a smoker and deplored the disgusting habit, but she had the craving none the less.
Fatefully, I am the only smoker in my immediate family.
posted by Josh F on 2-17-2009 at 4:22 pm
I am pregnant now (about 16 weeks) and could very literally eat an eggplant parmigiana hero every day. I actually alternate the places I get it from so they don’t think I’m crazy… earlier on when I was dealing with nausea I ate practically nothing but oranges and grapefruits. I also drink incessantly and have a strong aversion to Mexican food (normally one of my favorites). Pregnancy is wack, yo.
posted by Jill on 2-17-2009 at 4:23 pm
My wife had intense cravings for Cool Whip. Not Redi-Whip or some other canned whipped cream, but Cool Whip. Didn’t want it on top of anything, she just ate it straight from the bowl. Other whipped toppings, like Redi-Whip or some other canned whipped cream made her nauseous, but not Cool Whip. We usually had a container tucked in the back of the fridge to satisfy her cravings.
Of course, late one Saturday, around 2 AM, she dispatched me to the kitchen to fetch said container. Unbeknownst to her (and admittedly taking my life into my own hands) I had finished the container earlier in the evening on a delightful piece of leftover apple pie. Knowing full well that the only chance I had to meet my unborn child was to return to the bedroom with something that resembled Cool Whip and also knowing that the nearest 24 hour grocery was 25 miles away, I did the only rational thing. I took the remnants of a pint of heavy cream, half of an artifical sweetener packed and a dash of vanilla extract and whipped it all together. I put it in a dish, walked back upstairs and handed it to my wife who was sitting up impatiently.
She never knew the difference!
posted by GoTerriers on 2-17-2009 at 4:24 pm
In the first three months I had a massive aversion to any kind of bread and wanted to eat only applesauce and popsicles. Toward the end I only wanted pancakes – strawberry pancakes from IHOP to be exact.
I also found myself craving creamed chipped beef on toast even though I haven’t eaten meat in ten years.
I’ve heard the dirt/talc craving is a pica thing. It indicates a deficiency of certain minerals in your diet.
posted by Jen on 2-17-2009 at 4:26 pm
When my mom was pregnant with me she creaved newsprint. But not just any, she would only chew the unprinted paper around the edges of the Anderson Independent newspaper. She tried other newspapers and said they did not taste right.
posted by Patrick B on 2-17-2009 at 4:34 pm
Not really any strange cravings when I was pregnant, just intense ones. Mostly lots of peanut butter or ice cream. My then boyfriend, now husband, would -frequently- make 2 am trips to the store for ice cream. Oh yeah, and Strawberry Crush Soda – I remember being devestated when some one drank the last one from the fridge!
My mom said she craved donuts all the time when she was pregnant with me.
A friend told me about craving dirt… maybe it’s not all that uncommon.
posted by Nerak on 2-17-2009 at 4:35 pm
I have yet to venture into the crazy world of being pregnant but when my sis was pregnant all she wanted was Mexican food. All day every day it was Taco Bell, Las Palmas, anything mexican.
I also think i have sympathy pains for my sister. it’s weird.
posted by Kaitlyn on 2-17-2009 at 4:37 pm
With my first child, I craved Sara Lee Coffee Cake. I ate it in its frozen state. This was nearly 25 years ago, and I haven’t eaten it since.
With my second, it was tomato juice and peanut butter sandwiches. Every day for 9 months.
Good thing I never had another pregnancy, it would be peanut butter and tomato juice, followed by a Sara Lee chaser.
posted by kudzuhomecomingqueen on 2-17-2009 at 4:40 pm
My mother would toss back jar after jar of cocktail onions for all four of us. Didn’t touch them otherwise.
posted by Diana on 2-17-2009 at 4:40 pm
First pregnancy – butterscotch pudding and a (long-ago discontinued) Kool-Aid flavor called ‘Nectar’. I’d consume an entire batch of pudding at one sitting and guzzle the Kool-Aid until it was gone. But only while my husband was at work, never when he was at home.
Second pregnancy – chocolate-covered cream-filled pastries… around here where I live, they’re called ‘bismarcks’ or ‘oh girls’, but maybe they have a different name elsewhere.
Third pregnancy – Twix candy bars. I OD’d and wasn’t able to even *look* at one without becoming nauseated for almost 15 years afterward. Urk.
posted by Mama9cats on 2-17-2009 at 4:44 pm
Noxema and SpongeBobSquarePants Mac and Cheese (any other kind would NOT do, to this day I have no idea why)… don’t worry I did not indulge the first, but I spent hours smelling it, which totally freaked my husband out.
posted by Savannah on 2-17-2009 at 4:50 pm
My best friend used to crave Vanilla ice cream mixed with shucked oysters..daily. a full pint. ew.
posted by Disaster on 2-17-2009 at 5:02 pm
Weetabix with soy milk. Every afternoon.
posted by Alison on 2-17-2009 at 5:10 pm
I vote for the grease and ensuing description of the consumption. It made me snort (it’s a good thing).
posted by Lindsey on 2-17-2009 at 5:10 pm
With my first child I ate hotsauce on absolutely EVERYTHING… but only Frank’s Red Hot. One of my favorite snacks during this pregnancy was pizza with extra cheese, anchovies, and banana peppers topped off with mixed berry applesauce and (of course) Franks Red Hot. Needless to say I got some strange looks while eating it, though now the mere thought of it makes me ill.
posted by Megan on 2-17-2009 at 5:11 pm
Just a couple days ago, a cupcake blogger, and dear friend, told her readers that she and her husband are expecting their first baby. She made the announcement by making Pickle and Ice Cream Cupcakes. You can check out the whole story at her site… Cupcake Project.
posted by Eric Berger on 2-17-2009 at 5:11 pm
When my mother was pregnant with my younger brother, she would start off her day with homemade sugar donuts and pickles – SIMULTANEOUSLY! For some strange reason, my brother cannot tolerate the taste of pickles.
I can kind of understand why.
posted by tambalina on 2-17-2009 at 5:14 pm
Just a couple days ago, a cupcake blogger, and dear friend, told her readers that she and her husband are expecting their first baby. She made the announcement by making Pickle and Ice Cream Cupcakes. It wasn’t really a craving that she was having, more for humor value. As it turns out, she actually did enjoy them.
posted by Eric Berger on 2-17-2009 at 5:23 pm
Sorry about the double post. It didn’t seem like it worked the first time.
posted by Eric Berger on 2-17-2009 at 5:25 pm
When I was pregnant with my son, it was one Snickers bar and a 20oz bottle of Coke.
It had to specifically be the 20oz size of Coke and a regular sized Snickers bar, otherwise I would come completely unglued, sprout horns and sound like Lucifer himself. Metaphorically speaking.
..then, shortly after my son’s seventh birthday, I developed an allergy to peanuts.
I have NO idea where it came from.
posted by Kat on 2-17-2009 at 5:29 pm
With my first I didn’t have any cravings, but for my second I wanted potato. Raw, steamed, fries, mashed. I at pounds.
posted by Trese on 2-17-2009 at 5:41 pm
I had severe nausea from 8 weeks along until the day I delivered – I subsisted on Cinnamon Life Cereal.
One meal I could keep down was a can of creamed corn mixed with shredded cheese, heated until cheese was melted, and a can of sliced pickled beets, not heated.
I also craved peanut butter M&Ms, but due to a history of food allergies, I avoided peanut products until after I finished breastfeeding. The day my baby was weened, I got a pound bag of peanut M&Ms and ate them until I was nearly sick. . .and so, so happy.
posted by bgw on 2-17-2009 at 6:08 pm
Won. Ton. Soup.
I even ate it during labor.
posted by Shannon on 2-17-2009 at 6:10 pm
On my first pregnancy I ate pounds of oranges.. to the point that we bought them by the crate at costco. I also drank gallons of minute maid OJ. had to be minute maid. I hate orange juice, I did before and after. Second time around it was chili fries. Daily.
posted by Angel on 2-17-2009 at 6:13 pm
When my mom was 8 months pregnant with me, she started craving watermelon. She demanded that my dad get her some but he couldn’t get it. The problem was, the grocery store in her rural Michigan town didn’t carry watermelon in January (it was the early 70s, before year round produce availability. Mom had a major hissy fit (very out of character), threw his car keys into the snow in the front yard, and told him not to come home til he had the melon. Dad drove about 3 hours to a store in Lansing, got the melon, and drove home. By then, she was craving McDonalds, instead. Amazingly, they’re still married 35 years later.
No cravings for me. I was too sick during my entire pregnancy to even think about food.
posted by JenC on 2-17-2009 at 6:16 pm
I was my best friends craving enabler.
She craved crab legs, but NOT the meat. We would go out to the local chinese buffet that served unlimited crab legs, where I would eat the meat and hand her the shell, which she would then chew like a child chews sugar cane. Her favorite part was the little spikey bit at the end of the non-claw legs. We actually got “busted” when she slipped some of these into her purse to take home…they kicked us out even after we explained that the shells were empty when we put them in the purse.
She also had a craving for beer…which is obviously a problem during pregnancy. She did the near-beer thing for a while until her obgyn put the kibash on it, and instead started buying the darkest, hoppiest beers she could find, sipping it and spitting it in a different glass. It was all fun and games until my boyfriend came home and thought we had left him a full (if slightly warm) glass of beer…
posted by Mandragora on 2-17-2009 at 6:33 pm
my wife craved oreos and cheez whiz, she would put the cheez whiz on the oreo…
posted by Jermiah on 2-17-2009 at 6:56 pm
my wife craved paprika pepper, she would eat spoonfuls of it. She even kept some in her purse in case we went out to eat.
posted by Michael on 2-17-2009 at 7:01 pm
When my mother (who didn’t smoke) was pregnant with my older sister she had cravings for cigarette ash. Ick.
posted by Tabitha on 2-17-2009 at 7:02 pm
My mom had a craving for saltine crackers covered in mayonaise. Lots and lots of mayonaise. I even saw her eating mayo straight out of the jar one night.
posted by Zach on 2-17-2009 at 7:04 pm
When my mother (who despised cigarettes) was pregnant with my older sister she had a terrible craving for cigarette ash. My dad always laughs and tells me about how he had to stop her from trying to lick ashtrays. Ewww.
posted by Tabitha on 2-17-2009 at 7:06 pm
My mom, while expecting my brother and I, didn’t really have cravings, per se, but rather anti-cravings that still hit her today! For my brother, she developed an aversion to Mesquite smoke, and for me, Chinese Five-Spice was the enemy. She still can’t stand either of them!
posted by Sam on 2-17-2009 at 7:15 pm
I’ve had three kids, all of them I craved ice. I am anemic, so I’ve heard that is normal. With the older two I craved oranges and crab legs.
With my last one I didn’t crave anything to eat, I craved weird smells. I wanted to sniff Magic Markers and gasoline! I NEVER gave in to my cravings though, I was too afraid that I would damage the baby’s brain. Or that I would damage my own!
posted by Heather on 2-17-2009 at 7:17 pm
My grandma craved peanutbutter and bannanna sandwiches. My mom loves them till this day. My mom craved pepperoni and chocalate milk, where you dunk the pepperoni in the milk. I love this combo and have grossed out everyone I know when I eat it.
posted by KimberlyAnne on 2-17-2009 at 7:27 pm
When I found out I was pregnant, I looked forward to making ridiculous demands to satisfy my would-be cravings – I dreamed about sending him to the 24-hour supermarket to get me cookies and cream icecream at 3am in the morning… alas my craving ended up being much more difficult to procure.
Of Croatian descent but living in New Zealand, my family sometimes has ‘prsut’ in our fridge- a cured meat very much like Italian prosciutto but sliced more thickly, and in my opinion, it is more salty (and tasty). So when our local Croatian importer couldn’t get hold of any, I promptly decided that my husband and I were going on a European holiday. We went to Croatia (under the guise of visiting relatives), bought a lot of prsut, vacuum-packed most of it to bring back to N.Z and the rest of the unsealed meat was meant to last me for the rest of our holiday – which involved a 3-day car trip to Italy.
Upon reaching the Italian border, the officials said I couldn’t bring unsealed foreign meat into the country, so I parked on the side of the road at the border control and proceeded to make and eat sandwich after sandwich after sandwich – I couldn’t bear to part with my beloved prsut. I must have gone through about 3 loaves of bread (hubby drove to a nearby bakery to top up while I continued to eat) and I think I got through about an eighth of a cow in one sitting.
It was the most expensive craving I’ve ever had – I’m still paying off that holiday 7 months later.
posted by dangermouse on 2-17-2009 at 7:42 pm
I’m noticing an orange taste trend. ;)
My mom said she would put sweet pickles in a cup of orange soda, which is weird by itself, except she also waited until both got warm. Then she’d put the pickles on a peanut butter sandwich, toss the orange soda down the drain, and have the sandwich and applesauce for lunch.
I think this may be why if I ever eat pickles I always want applesauce afterward.
posted by Caitorade on 2-17-2009 at 8:11 pm
I started my first pregnancy as a vegetarian. Then my intense chicken cravings started. I developed an major aversion to crackers, and the sight of them would turn my stomach. With my second the aversion was cooked broccoli. My cravings were for steak and bacon cheeseburgers. We probably spent $300 on steak during that time. I also loved crispy cheese–shredded cheese on a hot pan until bubbly.
posted by Amanda on 2-17-2009 at 8:24 pm
For weeks I only ate raw broccoli and carrots, milk, and lots and lots of canned tuna, which is a big no-no. I won’t touch it now, though. Bleh.
Also, I hate grapes and grape-flavored things, but I really liked grapes and raisins while I was pregnant. Again, no longer touch them.
posted by adrienne on 2-17-2009 at 8:26 pm
Welch’s grape juice was about the only thing I craved.
posted by Diann on 2-17-2009 at 8:42 pm
With both my sister and I, my mom craved flour. Just plain flour. Now my sis and I are known to randomly eat it as well.
I get teased that when I get pregnant, I’ll crave steak (I abhor beef). I’m hoping that’s not true . . .
posted by nutmeag on 2-17-2009 at 9:10 pm
When I was in college, a nutrition teacher told our class about a pregnant client of hers who came in with black stuff in her teeth. She didn’t want to say what it was, but finally admitted to having big cravings for shoe polish.
posted by Dawn on 2-17-2009 at 9:20 pm
Like Minnie Driver I craved olives. Green or black or greek or stuffed with bleu cheese or …olives in ANY form. On one shopping trip when I was in my third trimester I ended up paying for any empty jar. I had grabbed a bottle of queen olives as soon as I walked into the store and ate them all when I shopped and then drank the brine they had been packed in.
posted by Cynthia on 2-17-2009 at 9:38 pm
I craved anything with red meat. I would stop on the way home at a Jack In the Box and get this huge greasy burger and not even wait until I was out of the car to shove it in my mouth. People probably thought I was nuts. I craved that and Mexican food w/ hot sauce. I’ve heard that’s common when you have a boy, which I did.
posted by Beth on 2-17-2009 at 10:16 pm
I’ve heard multitudes about pregnancy causing wont for pickles and Ranch dressing. Is this a Southern trend or is there knowledge of this in the North?
posted by Clay on 2-17-2009 at 10:26 pm
Not currently pregnant but wouldn’t the greatest craving possible be the MENTAL FLOSS magazine?
Just think, by digesting each and every page, you could get your full recommended daily dose of knowledge! No fillers, just nutrition that’ll do a mind good!
posted by Amy on 2-17-2009 at 10:30 pm
My craving was for shrimp. On the surface it does not seem like a strange craving; however, I had historically hated anything that came from the ocean. Ever since I was little, I couldn’t stand seafood. If a co-worker would bring seafood into the workroom, I would leave. I couldn’t even stand the smell. Then I got pregnant. Suddenly I found myself not only enjoying the taste of shrimp, but desiring it. I love what my husband said when I exclaimed how good it tasted. He replied, “Yes – welcome to what the rest of the world experiences.”
posted by Chickadee75 on 2-17-2009 at 10:33 pm
my mom craved for beer with rice on it when she was pregnant with my lil bro….
posted by jewel on 2-17-2009 at 10:54 pm
I craved Burger King onion rings and Dolly Madison chocolate pies for the first 6 months.
During the last three months it was whipped cream. I ate the strawberries with the whipperd cream to pretend that I wanted some nutritional value, but it was really all about the whiped cream.
posted by haselwoman on 2-17-2009 at 10:56 pm
My mom craved root beer floats when she was pregnant with my twin sister and I. It was during the summer, and with two babies she swears it was the only way to cool off. (Incidentally, I can’t live without root beer floats in the summer now either.)
posted by Anna on 2-17-2009 at 11:08 pm
I was visiting a neighbor in Virgina Beach about 20 years ago when I walked into the kitchen and saw Carol standing in front of the fridge. She was expecting and she was looking for something that ‘would taste just right’. She pulled out a can of chocolate syrup and then went to a cabinet and pulled out a can of sauerkraut. I left the kitchen when she poured the syrup over the bowl of sauerkraut.
posted by Owen on 2-17-2009 at 11:22 pm
When my mom was pregnant with me, her and my dad went to see some creepy vampire movie that had been filmed in the town they lived in. Dad was understandably a tad freaked when he woke up in the middle of the night to loud sucking and slurping noises coming from Mom’s side of the bed. No, pregnancy didn’t make her a vampire, she just really had an urge for pickle juice and had already drained the jar, so she was desperately trying to suck some brine out of those giant dill pickles.
posted by Grace on 2-18-2009 at 12:23 am
My sister craved cherry icees from the icee Stand in Walmart. She had them about six times a day from beginning to end.
posted by Ashley on 2-18-2009 at 12:42 am
I had bad nausea in the first 4 or 5 months. The only thing that kept me alive was most any sugary cereal, Emperor Nortons Sourdough chips with cream cheese and/or hostess cupcakes (I don’t really like chocolate). I had a really stong aversion to garlic-which sucked because I love garlic. I hated the smell of Costco. I don’t know why but I wanted to barf everytime I went in there. Ooo. But the smell of fresh ground coffee sooooothed me. It still does.
posted by Diane on 2-18-2009 at 1:10 am
For myself, I craved Butterfinger candy bars, but couldn’t stand sight or smell of tomatos, fresh, sauce or canned, which I normally love. And I had planted several tomato plants in my garden that year. Couldn’t look at them.
My husband’s grandmother would go into their root cellar and eat spoonfuls of dirt when she was pregnant.
Pica is craving things like paint or crayons with no nutitional value. Geophagia is a craving for dirt, usually in the form of clay. Can’t remember where I read the article, but I think it’s common in the south for women to crave clay to eat. If they move away from home, their relatives will pack up a box of the “good stuff” and ship it to them. Same article said some women craved laundry starch because the smell would remind them of the clay from back home. Theory is that it’s the minerals in the dirt that they want.
posted by Pam on 2-18-2009 at 1:38 am
I’m pregnant with my second boy. Both times I have craved Taco Bell. Not Mexican food. Just Taco Bell. I also have strange aversions. I couldn’t even think about chili powder with my first. With this one, it’s not even food. I caught the flu during my first trimester, and, trying to entertain my two-year-old, wound up playing a lot of video games with him on my lap (Mass Effect and Wii Cars, to be precise). Now the thought of those specific games makes me VERY queasy– and it makes me think I can smell how I smelled with the flu. Not fun. I hope it goes away after this one’s born– Mass Effect is a good game!
My best friend has three kids (all girls). With all of them, she has craved Nacho Cheese Doritos dipped in chocolate, like chocolate-covered strawberries.
posted by Eowyn on 2-18-2009 at 1:47 am
After reading all that, I think an article on the psychology of cravings would be really interesting.
posted by NYCGirl on 2-18-2009 at 4:27 am
Oh, and those onesies are too cute!
posted by NYCGirl on 2-18-2009 at 4:30 am
I moved to the UK and got earlier late last year. My husband and I have been talking about trying for a baby and I am *terrified* of craving something like taco bell (there are none in the UK) or ranch dressing or some other food that it will be impossible to get. I don’t want to turn into the pregnant woman from hell.
posted by missjoules on 2-18-2009 at 6:30 am
I crave avacado with soymilk & lemon mixed together with sardines on the side
posted by adele on 2-18-2009 at 8:01 am
I craved Comet. You got it – Comet Cleanser. Apparently, as a child, I would get under the kitchen sink and my mom would catch me licking the top of the canister. I didn’t know this until I got pregnant and admitted my strange craving to my mom. She was amazed that she had forgotten my little obsession until it manifested itself again 25 years later! (no I did not give in to the craving – just smelled the stuff) =)
posted by Karen on 2-18-2009 at 8:39 am
I craved Roast Beef Sandwiches, normally I hate them, and Taco Bell during my first pregnancy. The second was for Little Debbie brownies. Both times I could not stand the taste or smell of ice cream, how sad.
posted by Fran on 2-18-2009 at 8:50 am
With my daughter I craved Mexican food, milk, and bread with butter.
With my son it was salsa and turkey sandwiches with barbeque sauce and jalapenos. To this day he still loves spicy food!
posted by Frankie on 2-18-2009 at 9:22 am
McDonald’s cheeseburgers…I had to limit myself to only getting them after my doctor’s appointments because they were so indescribably delicious, I would have eaten them three meals a day.
posted by Susan on 2-18-2009 at 9:44 am
For the first 5 months, all I wanted was ice (but I wasn’t anemic at the time) and Taco Bell’s taco supremes. Anything else just would not stay down. Eventually a friend, who also went through severe morning sickness, made me some spaghetti and it stayed down. Needless to say, if I wasn’t walking to the local Taco Bell I was at our friends’ house begging his wife to cook. :)
posted by Smee on 2-18-2009 at 9:50 am
With my first, the only thing that would help my 24hour-a-day sickness was sourkraut and the only thing to help the sourkraut heartburn was Aunt Nellie’s pickled beets. With my 2nd, I was on the C food diet- cherries, cantaloupe, cheese and carrots. One day I forgot my carrots for lunch and started crying because my husband wouldn’t bring them to me…a co-worker actually went to the store and bought me carrots so I would stop crying.
posted by michelle on 2-18-2009 at 10:13 am
I craved yellow Land-o-lakes american cheese (no other brand would do!) and beer. I’d find myself at a deli at 10Pm ordering a pound of yellow cheese. I could’t STAND the smell or look of chicken starting my 2nd trimester and it went away the end of my 3rd.
My daughter is now going to be 30 and her favoirte food is..cheese!
posted by Ronnie on 2-18-2009 at 10:16 am
Pineapple was my main craving for Baby #1, and after she was born, I drank gallons of orange soda, I couldn’t get enough of it.
But my wierdest craving wasn’t a food one… I craved swimming in the ocean! So there I was, taking cold, salt baths in the dead of winter with my huge beached whale body. I would lie there for an hour, just dreaming of being in the ocean!
posted by Marion on 2-18-2009 at 10:24 am
with my daughter i had to have original pringles dipped in the ragu classic alfredo sauce. other than that i didnt have any unsual cravings, i could almost clear out a buffet table at the local chinese place on sunday. interestingly my daughter adores alfredo sauce but hates chinese.
posted by olethalake on 2-18-2009 at 10:46 am
I just asked my mom and she said that boiling chicken/ turkey would make her real nauseated. She also craved some things in a bag that you could boil and put on toast.
posted by Sara on 2-18-2009 at 10:56 am
Saltine crackers with Jif peanut butter, then Miracle Whip on that and topped off with a dill pickle slice. Yumm!
posted by Carol on 2-18-2009 at 11:00 am
I have a few things for this post:
1. having a craving for ice is known medically as pagophagia. And I had it with my first child. of course, it was the middle of the summer (100 in the shade), so… that might have had something to do with it.
2. When my mom was prego with me it wasn’t a FOOD craving, it was a music craving. She would try to listen to her favorite pop songs but I apparently would throw a “fit” and make her very nauseous. But whe she turned the radio dial to the classical station, I would settle down. I am a classical musician to this day and have a VERY hard time listening to pop.
3. With my first child, the cravings were just very SPECIFIC, not actually weird: Original recipe Kraft Cheese and Macaroni in the blue box, LOTS AND LOTS of tomatoes, strawberries, lettuce and cucumbers, Pickles and Pepsi. I’m now 25 weeks with my second child and really, I have not “craved” anything except pot-stickers. But I still have 3.5 months to go- who knows. Oh! With this one, Diet Coke ruled my world for about 2 weeks. and then it stopped. Really, I’ve found ALL of my food-neediness to be about 2 weeks duration per product.
posted by Ashley on 2-18-2009 at 11:08 am
When i have been pregnant I have craved saltine cracker with butter. My husband always knew what was going on when he found me standing at the kitchen counter, buttering crackers!
posted by K Shep on 2-18-2009 at 11:10 am
My Mom told me that when she was pregnant with me she couldn’t get enough Coca Cola and Entemanns Coffe Cake. When I was a teenager, I went through a huge Coke addiction, I still love the stuff too, just not as excessive.
NYCGirl is right, they should do a study to see if maternal cravings reflect later in the child…
posted by Jess on 2-18-2009 at 11:10 am
Snow crab legs. I came close to breaking the bank on this one when I was pregnant with my twin boys.
posted by Dana on 2-18-2009 at 11:12 am
I have one baby so far.. My daily ritual was a large glass of oj, and a bowl of cereal- I mixed up to 3 together at a time, extra milk please! When my third trimester hit all I wanted to eat was fried eggs and toast. I also hated fried chicken- chicken on the bone always grossed me out. Now, I love it!!
posted by Sheri on 2-18-2009 at 11:19 am
Great…I have something in common with Britney. Pbbblllt.
Several times while I was pregnant with my son, I woke up to find a glass of coke with dirt in it next to the bed. Apparently I was getting up and fixing myself the tasty concoction during the night sometime. I also ate biscuits and gravy…every day…through my entire pregnancy.
With my daughter, I couldn’t eat anything but Topsy’s buttered popcorn and Auntie Anne’s pretzels for nearly 10 weeks. Anything else I tried to feed her was promptly “returned.”
posted by Heather Dawn on 2-18-2009 at 11:31 am
With my firstborn son, I craved Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup with sweet pickles. My second son, I craved anything vanilla flavored.
posted by Kat on 2-18-2009 at 11:37 am
I craved gooey dark chocolate brownies ( Never the cake kind) covered with warm nacho cheese/ salsa con queso. And I craved milk, I would eat cereal all the time and just drink glass after glass of it, I couldn’t get enough!
posted by Jessalyn on 2-18-2009 at 11:58 am
When my mom was pregnant with me, she craved fried clams. She ate so many, she now has an aversion to them.
She was also big on oatmeal cookies, eating entire packages in a day.
posted by Chelsea on 2-18-2009 at 12:15 pm
My sister craved stale Cheetos and milk that tasted very faintly of chocolate. We didn’t discover the “stale” part until she sent us to the store to get Cheetos and then cried for three hours because they weren’t right. We ended up leaving the bag open on accident, and four days later found her eating them happily. So we would buy bags of Cheetos and dump the contents on cookie sheets in order to speed the process up a bit. There were a lot of Cheetos in my house for about seven months.
And the milk — she was very specific. We went through about ten gallons a week because if we didn’t get the right milk-to-chocolate ratio, she’d have us dump it out and start again.
Amusingly, her kids hates Cheetos now. Won’t touch them. I don’t blame her.
posted by Jenna on 2-18-2009 at 12:34 pm
1st pregancy- LIME anything
2nd pregnancy- Vegetable Beef soup
3rd pregnancy- Asparagus casserole
4th pregancy- SALT!!!!!
Food Aversions- Tomato based sauces (ketchup, salsa, BBQ sauce, eyc.) I usually love tomatoes……..
SOme of these cravings are scary….but I totally understand them.
posted by lizhot on 2-18-2009 at 12:38 pm
through both of my pregnancies(that were 6 years apart), I craved tomatoes, catfish and texas pete hot sauce. together. unfortunately i was pregnant both times thru the winter so i was never satisfied because the tomatoes didn’t taste right. My 1st pregnancy ended in april so i did at least get a few fresh tomatoes that time.
posted by Gina on 2-18-2009 at 12:44 pm
during both of my pregnancies (6 yrs apart) i craved tomatos, catfish and texas pete hot sauce. together. it had to be texas pete (nothing else tastes the same), and the catfish had to be fried in lard. unfortunately i was pregnant both times during the winter so i was never able to get fresh tomatos. :(:( interestingly enough both of my daughters have little tomato shaped red birthmarks on the back of their necks right at their hairline.
posted by Gina on 2-18-2009 at 12:49 pm
when my mother was pregnant with me she craved tin cans. she would carry around an empty tin can and lick it every fifteen minutes or so. the doctor says its due to a lack of iron in her systems…
posted by Cindy on 2-18-2009 at 12:55 pm
While pregnant with my daughter, I craved meat. Any kind of meat. I’d make burger for hamburger helper, and eat all of it out the pan. I’ve have to start all over! I also craved the Lettuce Wedges from Lone Star. It’s only a 1/4 head of iceberg, but I had to have it. I remember standing in front of the doughnut case in the all night grocery store crying my eyes out because there was no more raspberry jelly filled sugar coated doughnuts. My boyfriend was frantic, promising to go everywhere that could possibly have doughnuts at 3am, if I would just stop crying!
That was about it for specific items. I did experience the intense, gotta-have-it-now-or-I-will-die cravings. Fish, brocculi and fruit were high in the list.
While nursing, I could eat 2 grown men under the table without breaking a sweat! And I drink so much! I would finish a gallon of milk and 2-3 big containers of juice in less than two days. He would be at the store everyday on the way home from work. Anyone who came to visit brought me something to drink!
posted by Jaime on 2-18-2009 at 1:03 pm
With my first son, I craved tons of corndogs. I would eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I’m pregnant again and this time, I want waffles with peanut butter and pickles, drenched in syrup. Yum!!
posted by CarrieBelle on 2-18-2009 at 1:17 pm
I’m in my first pregnancy (8.5 months along)and I’ve craved Arby’s Philly Beef subs, pickles, and occasionally like to sniff rubbing alcohol. I think it helps with the nausea.
posted by Jen on 2-18-2009 at 1:18 pm
My cousin Paula craved chopped grapes mixed in mayonnaise, and shoe polish as well.
posted by Ally on 2-18-2009 at 1:51 pm
I’m currently 5 months pregnant and I have a HUGE orange juice craving! I can go though a gallon in a few days (but only Simply Orange brand). I don’t normally like oj because I find it too sour, but not now. I also crave the stereotypical pickles (my school cafeteria has BIG GIANT pickles…HEAVEN!!) (BTW-I’m a teacher, not a student) :O)
I also have started to really like cooked broccoli, something I absolutely cannot stand when I’m not pregnant.
posted by Kirsten on 2-18-2009 at 1:54 pm
With my first child, it was Hershey’s Whatchamacalit candy bars and Arby’s roast beef sandwiches.
Second child was potato chips and onion dip, which I didn’t even like. (Eat and gag; eat and gag.)Also Steak-um sandwich steaks. And lots of ice.
Third was cherry pie and salty prezel sticks. And I was unable to brush my teeth without gagging. The whole pregnancy, brushing my teeth was a nightmare.
posted by Kelly on 2-18-2009 at 1:58 pm
1st child: Chinese broccoli chicken with broccoli removed and discarded. I told my husband I just wanted the “taint” of broccoli.
2nd child: Super duper garlicky dill pickles and Dairy Queen soft serve
3rd child: Olive Garden minestrone and buttered saltines. Also had a weird need to smell my cat’s fur.
Aversions: touching raw meat and if my husband had had any beer to drink I made him sleep in the living room because he smelled like olive loaf…
Glad those weird days are behind me!!
posted by kitty_jo on 2-18-2009 at 2:03 pm
I swear on both children’s lives is was:
SPAM . . . for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I kid you not.
posted by JANE MCGLOTHEN on 2-18-2009 at 2:21 pm
These are pretty tame. I just read that Mila Jovovich craved bone marrow.
BONE MARROW.
“I was craving bone marrow one day, and I scoured the whole of Paris searching for the leg of a cow. “When I finally found what I was looking for, I cut it in half, digging out the yellowish substance, slathering it all over bread.”
posted by Nate on 2-18-2009 at 2:28 pm
I craved chalk so badly that my ex-husband had to take my keys away from me so I wouldn’t go to the grocery store and buy some. I contemplated going to my old high school with the excuse to see my old teachers so I could swipe a couple of pieces off the board. Chewing on cardboard helped ease the craving. You can go into our storage closet today and see little chunks torn off the flaps of the boxes.
posted by Stacy the Amazing on 2-18-2009 at 2:55 pm
i craved fresh things – salads, fruit, clementines, watermelon. Then towards the end I couldn’t stop sniffing a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Which i still like to do… it’s calming.
posted by Jen on 2-18-2009 at 3:14 pm
When I was pregnant with my first child, I HAD to have Frosted Flakes. Frosted Flakes with or without milk, Frosted Flakes alone or on my other favorite, a tuna sandwhich. I know it sounds gross, but during my entire pregnency, I had Frosted Flakes on everything (and yes, my son LOVES Frosted Flakes!) During my second pregnency, I ate nothing but Taco Bell taco’s with “Fire” sauce. I HATE spicy food, but the second time around, it was Taco Bell for breakfast, lunch & dinner. The funny thing is, I could not stand the smell or texture of Frosted Flakes during my second pregnency (but it was my main food group during my first pregnancy?!?) and No, my daughter does not love Taco Bell!!! Good luck and best wishes to all those out there having their strange pregnany cravings now!! Enjoy and GOD bless!! KK from Florida
posted by KK on 2-18-2009 at 3:26 pm
Not there yet though I plan (as much as one can) to have the most bizarre cravings (short of comet that is – yikes!). My mom did tell me that she craved dill pickle chips (a Canuck thing) and orange popsicles. I could take or leave the popsicles (I’m a red girl myself) but give me those dill pickle chips any day!
posted by Erin on 2-18-2009 at 3:31 pm
With my first pregnancy I craved chicken like you wouldn’t believe…I ate it every day twice a day for nearly 3 months, and I normally don’t like it that much. I also had strange cravings for lime or lime juice which I would put in water, or just eat. I also carried a bottle of Tabasco sauce in my purse, and had one in my desk at work and had one at home…once I turned a bowl of Chicken Corn Soup orange because there was so much Tabasco in it.
Now I am on my second pregnancy, and I again am craving spicy foods, but I do have a rather strange craving as well…crayons. I don’t know why but every time I see one I just want to bite into it. My boyfriend has to hide our son’s because he is afraid I will try to eat them…I haven’t had to go out and buy any to eat, but I know that if I saw them in the store I might not be able to help myself.
posted by J-me on 2-18-2009 at 4:05 pm
When my mother was pregnant with me she was living in California and craved Mexican food. To this day, I can eat Mexican food three meals a day. Even with other types of food, I prefer it the spicier the better.
posted by tiacheryl on 2-18-2009 at 4:36 pm
When I was pregnant I craved taco bell *blech* and sour cream. I also starting drinking milk before I never could stand the taste of milk and to this day I still like drinking milk.
posted by Julia on 2-18-2009 at 4:44 pm
My first pregnancy, I could not get enough pineapple. My husband was afraid I was going to grow spikes. I ate it all day.. My last one, I needed Coke Icee’s. I knew which gas station had the best, and I planned my route to work around them (and from, sadly).
posted by Andrea on 2-18-2009 at 4:57 pm
I was one of the women who never had any cravings. I hardly had an appetite at all throughout my pregnancy. I did however, never like coffee or sweets until after I had my daughter, now I love both.
posted by Allison on 2-18-2009 at 5:00 pm
I once soured my tongue by eating a huge amounts of grapes and oranges. It was disgusting but it helped me through the morning sickness. I was so grateful.
posted by Monica on 2-18-2009 at 6:22 pm
With my first pregnancy I craved, and could only eat Chex Mix Hot N Spicy. It is all I ate from week 4 until week 12. Then at about 6 months I craved McDonalds McRib sandwich. I hadn’t had one in years, and although I normally love REAL pork, I hadn’t been able to eat any pork while pregnant. I went to McDonalds only to find out that they no longer served McRibs. I spent the next 3 months trying to find out where and how I could get one. NO luck.
Then I drove by and saw a sign that they were serving them for a limited time. I ordered one. Ate it and immediately wondered why the heck I craved that awful thing.
The next day I went into labor while at a Mexican Restaurant.
posted by Karen on 2-18-2009 at 11:04 pm
Right before my sister got pregnant, everything smelled like beef jerky. Fish, fruit, people, everything. She, having studied anatomy and medicine since high school, eventually said “you know weird smells occur a lot during pregnancy,” so she took a test and found out she was pregnant. The smell has gone away but she now craves pancakes at 2 in the morning, its a good thing there is a ihop nearby.
posted by Doedina on 2-20-2009 at 2:37 am
I am currently 5 weeks pregnant. I crave talcum powder all the time. It is weird,I don’t eat it by the spoonfuls, I just sprinkle some lightly in my hand and lick it. I didn’t know that cravings started so early even though this is my second child.I craved fruit all the time when I was pregnant with her and ice. I also have a strong craving for catfish nuggets the last few days and steak sauce by itself.
posted by Tenika on 2-21-2009 at 3:53 pm
I am currently 34 weeks pregnant and have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. Since becoming pregnant I absolutely love/crave the smell of McDonalds cheeseburgers. So much so that when my husband comes home with McDonalds I don’t let him through away the wrappers so I can hoard the bag of garbage and smell away. Any other cheeseburger just won’t do, it has to be McDonalds.
posted by teh wife on 2-24-2009 at 3:43 pm
I am not that far into my pregnancy, and haven’t had any unusual cravings, but my cousin had the weirdest craving..
She just had to have vanilla ice cream with bbq sauce and pickles on top…
kinda makes my stomach turn! haha
posted by Nessa on 3-2-2009 at 11:40 pm
I have to say I’m only 8wks along but I can’t eat anything except carbs. Dairy makes me throw up as does any type of meat or poultry. It’s horrible! I’m hoping to get some cravings here eventually so that I can eat. I still feel the I have to eat or I will kill everyone around me feeling though I just don’t ever really want to eat. That is strange in itself to me lol.
posted by Laurie on 4-6-2009 at 11:29 pm
During my first pregnancy I was raiding the pantry for something to eat and then it hit me…..PB and salami sandwich!! That tasted so good!! I craved it a coupld times after that but it was never as good as the first time. Also with my first Watermelon. I would get a medium size one & cut it in half. One half for me and one for everyone else. With my second it was strawberries.
posted by Katie M on 4-29-2009 at 4:56 pm
I craved french fries and ketchup. Not regular french fries (although they would do in a pinch), but the big, fat steak fries. And I *had* to have ketchup. I’m not really a french fry person, so that was odd.
I also ate two ice cream snicker bars almost everyday during my third trimester. It was also during my pregnancy that I realized I am lactose intolerant. :(
posted by Hannibal Schlechter on 6-1-2009 at 3:20 pm
My Mom craved anything spicy when she was pregnant. Constantly. She would cover the hot burrito with hot, hot sauce. Didn’t even faze her. I don’t remember craving anything but milk. Whole milk. Gallons of it. I could not stand coffee or chocolate. I even hated the smell of chocolate. It made me gag. And I still cant drink coffee with anything other than cream in it. Black is out of the question
posted by Anne on 6-2-2009 at 2:19 pm
My mother craved chocolate for, which I know, is not that strange. What IS strange is that she wanted it so badly that she once ate an entire box of Hershey’s Cocoa Powder (unsweetened) with a spoon and nothing else.
And, under normal circumstances, she doesn’t like chocolate.
posted by Heather on 6-3-2009 at 12:18 pm
With my first, I made sure to drive by 7-11 on my way to work (6:00 AM) to get 2 hotdogs with chili, cheese, saurkraut, vidalia onion relish and pickle relish. The first one I would eat right away – the second sat on my desk until 10:00 AM or so, all nice and congealed… my co-workers would take their break right about then.
With my 2nd – Burger King double-Whopper with cheese, McDonalds french fries, Wendy’s frosty and Popeye’s red beans and rice… all in the same meal. I had to have this at least 3 times a week, drove my (then) husband nuts.
With my 3rd – Fresh vegetables and bleu cheese dressing. I had always hated bleu cheese… now I can tolerate it, but certainly don’t have to have it for breakfast!
With all 3 — had to have Starlight mints, peppermint flavor (red not green). Carried them in my purse, pockets, car… I would become very upset if I couldn’t lay my hands on one…
posted by Cathy on 6-4-2009 at 4:26 pm
My Mom craved hamburgers when she was pregnant with me; she ate McDonald’s just about everyday. This translated into my childhood, when I discovered my own love for burgers and would crave McDonald’s. Now, I am still a burger lover to the max. Don’t ever ask me to choose between brats or burgers at a grillout because you should already know the answer!
posted by Katie on 6-4-2009 at 5:46 pm
Yeah… all of these people going “omg my mom craved pickles and now i like pickles” it’s not a miracle. i’m pretty sure there would be a good chance of you liking pickles even if your mother had not craved them.
posted by Mei on 6-4-2009 at 10:51 pm
During the part of mine where you have morning sickness, I craved and only ate Wendy’s french fries and Frosties. It was the only thing I could eat that didn’t upset my stomach. I don’t think I have had more than 1 or 2 frosties since then, 5 years later.
posted by elf on 6-13-2009 at 12:56 pm
Oranges dipped in mayonnaise. I craved it my entire pregnancy with my twins.
posted by laura on 7-3-2009 at 6:32 pm
One time while I was pregnant with my daughter Natalie, I Had a craving for Fruity pebbles and a pickle. It was soooo good! I polled my friends to have them guess whether or not I would get A) Get sick and throw up , B) Be just fine or C) Be sick to my stomach and not throw up. The answer was B – I was just fine and slept soooo well that night!
posted by Abby Marie on 7-5-2009 at 9:08 am
My doctor said there were only 3 real cravings: salt, chalk and raw meat. The body would only submit a “real” craving if it were dangerously deficit in something it required for the fetus. I drank green olive juice from the bottle and threw out the olives. I told my doctor because I thought there was something seriously wrong with me. Turns out it was a salt deficiency. Anything else a woman “craves” is just an excuse to be a hog. No such thing as eating for two.
posted by patty on 7-5-2009 at 3:20 pm
I read that Milla Jovavich actually craved bone marrow, and actually broke open the leg of a cow to get her fix.
posted by Mary on 7-5-2009 at 5:59 pm
During my first pregnancy I craved dill pickles and caramel sauce. Third pregnancy was dirt.
posted by Paula on 7-6-2009 at 6:04 pm
My cravings were pickled okra with a side of peaches and cream. sometimes had to wash it down with some V8.
posted by jennifer delaney rose on 7-7-2009 at 2:28 pm
I was soooo sick with my first son, I lost almost 20 pounds my first trimester. Then one day I saw spaghettiOs on television and knew I had to have them. It was all I ate- breakfast, lunch, dinner- for weeks. My husband was so sweet and went out to buy every can he could find from every grocery store. Eventually I was able to eat normally again, and went back to thinking that you couldn’t pay me to eat SpaghettiOs. Yuck.
posted by Claire on 7-10-2009 at 8:56 am
My mum ate almost nothing but melons- watermelon, canteloupe and honeydews- while she was pregnant with me. All 3 make me break out in hives.
While I was pregnant I craved Cinnamon Toast Crunch desperately- I ate a box a day for 7 months (my tastes didn’t change- he was early). I’d been allergic to milk but during a soymilk outage one day tried my husband’s cow’s milk and had no trouble, so drank it the next 3 months. And now my son’s allergic to cow’s milk. :-(
My sister’s just had a baby and after repeated warnings from her ob not to eat peanut butter (all she craved for most of her pregnancy) we’re all sure the poor kid’s going to be allergic to peanuts.
posted by Twinkle on 7-10-2009 at 2:34 pm
I craved Arby’s Roast Beef 24/7 when I was pregnant.
posted by Tragic on 7-10-2009 at 5:24 pm
Eating dirt isn’t all that weird (well, anyway, it isn’t all that uncommon; it’s a pretty common thing in the south US for many people, man or woman, and of course Brittany Spears is po’ south WT. One of my co-workers even asked his mother to bring him some “clay dirt” when she came up to Massachusetts.
posted by firstofnormalin on 7-11-2009 at 11:04 pm
When my mom was pregnant with my little sister she really wanted canned tuna juice, which wouldn’t be so weird, but my cat Shady was also pregnant and they constantly drank tuna juice together. After giving birth neither one could even look at tuna without looking ill. My sister loves tuna, but I don’t know how the kittens feel about it.
posted by Nick on 7-12-2009 at 3:19 am
LIME. Anything lime. Lime popsicles by the box — I could do one 6-popsicle box a day. Limeade…..mmmmm….I threw a fit one day when the grocery store didn’t have limeade! Poor husband, I was a mess. He drove to another grocery store to get me my limeade fix (Odwalla limeade was my favorite) and made it all better. I still love limeade, but not like I did then!
posted by henrysmum on 7-13-2009 at 5:43 pm
I craved fish and pancakes. Together. I’d order broiled haddock with extra butter, and an order of pancakes with extra butter. I’d dump the haddock, juice and all, on top of the pancakes, cut it up, slather it all in more butter, and dump syrup all over that. I remember it being soooo good. Thank God I worked in a restaurant at the time and had access to whatever I had a craving for! I still like broiled haddock and pancakes, just separate now.
recaptcha: duction tubbier
LOL!! that’s what happened!
posted by Jaime on 7-17-2009 at 3:56 pm
My wife craved extra hot Chicken wings.
posted by Zwiedna on 7-22-2009 at 7:03 am
I regularly drank the liquid straight out of a tub of pickled green tomatoes.
posted by Estee on 7-23-2009 at 11:07 am
Oh my goodness…Im seven months and I want chef boyardee beefaroni with kosher dill pickles and gala apples cut up and mixed in wiht it.
posted by Linds on 7-24-2009 at 4:26 pm
My cousin craved a bowls of Raisin Bran and milk, topped with sliced ham.
posted by shawn on 7-27-2009 at 10:07 pm
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I would make my husband go to McDonalds and buy a Fillet O’ Fish sandwich with fries and a Strawberry milkshake. THEN…I would take the fish fillet out of the bun and put it in a bowl, and pour the strawberry milkshake over the top of the fish fillet like a sauce. The thought makes me gag now…but I remember craving this odd combination and thoroughly enjoying it several times a week for about a month.
posted by Linda on 7-28-2009 at 1:08 am
I ate wheat bread and honey with a big glass of milk almost every night. Tons of spicy food and banana milkshakes to help the heartburn. I usually love carrots, but couldn’t go near them when I was pregnant. I like them again now.
I also ate peanut butter and jelly (only strawberry!) constantly. No bread, just spoonfuls.
posted by Renee on 7-29-2009 at 1:45 pm
With my 1st pregnancy I craved chili (which I don’t like) and strawberry cheesecake.
With my 2nd, I had to have A&W rootbeer, BBQ sunflower seeds (my husband bought all that the gas station by our house had in stock one night) and my husband’s grandmothers mashed potatoes. Just her’s and no one else’s.
I also had the ice craving with both pregnancies from being anemic.
posted by MMaddox on 7-29-2009 at 4:45 pm
Not a pregnancy craving, but about as wierd as a lot of these: I went through a phase where I really wanted french fries and peanuts. But in a very specific way – I would break the top off of the fry, and then stuff it with peanuts. Absolutely delicious :P
posted by LC on 8-1-2009 at 2:17 pm
Tosito scoops chips dunkened into milk with strawberry quik mixed in. The mere thought now makes me taste vomit!
posted by Libby on 8-1-2009 at 6:06 pm
My mom didn’t have any weird cravings when she was pregnant with me, just found that she got nauseated at the sight of any Asian food, even though she loves it normally. I was actually in college before I really started to like any of that kind of food.
posted by Rick on 8-4-2009 at 10:54 pm
I craved one thing while I was pregnant. Sonic onion rings dipped in Sonic’s vanilla ice cream. The hot and cold mixed together with the sweet and salty..I can still eat it to this day, lol.
posted by Rachel on 8-7-2009 at 3:08 pm
When I was pregnant with my daughter I craved tv dinners, had to be the one with the chicken and brownie in it. I can’t remember the name now, I haven’t touched them since!
With my son, I craved Taco Bell hard taco’s with EXTRA sour cream! I ate 4 of these 2xs a day for months!!! They were the best things on this planet, I would moan with such pleasure eating these, I couldn’t get enough! I sent my husband to get them, even while he was at work… he didn’t eat lunch on his lunch breaks, he was getting me tacos! LOL
I don’t care for the hard taco’s now, I do however love the soft ones. :D
posted by Keria on 8-9-2009 at 11:49 pm
The first time around, it was calves’ liver and onions ( and I couldn’t stomach coffee, which I normally may as well hook up like an IV); second time, I ate cold, plain boiled shrimp until it was coming out of my ears.
The second time, my aversion was to the smell of anything frying in oil–and the really weird part here is that extended permanently past the pregnancy–26 years and counting, now!
posted by Candy on 8-10-2009 at 12:51 am
I was sick for the first 6 months of my pregnancy, the only things I ate were liverwurst (ewww) on saltines with an Orange Crush, had to be Orange Crush Sunkist made me gag! And some sort of black cherry ice cream that I haven’t seen ever again it was probably taken off the market because of it’s hideous purple color and disgusting flavor. I also had 4 baby showers and after each one I licked every bit of frosting off the cake and then threw the left over cake in the garbage.
posted by Lany on 8-10-2009 at 10:52 am
During the 5th month of my first pregnancy I craved mustard. Not the expensive kind, just the cheap, yellow mustard. I bought myself a small jar of it and would spoon mustard directly into my mouth. Pretty gross. The craving lasted for about a week. During my second pregnancy, I did not crave anything.
posted by Agi on 8-11-2009 at 4:11 pm
My Mom craved tuna fish and very sour lemonade when she was pregnant with me. I chalk up some of my idiosincracies to the fact that my Mom did indulge in the mercury-ridden tuna when the craving became too much to handle.
posted by Sara on 8-11-2009 at 5:16 pm
Barbeque sauce – just the thought of it would make my mouth water. On the flip side, I couldn’t even think about eggs for about two months. I usually love omlettes for breakfast, but even seeing the word egg printed on a menu made me naseous.
posted by Kelly on 8-11-2009 at 6:12 pm
I craved piña colada(sans alcohol), and had to have Orangina (an orange soda) had to drink a bottle every day!.
posted by Claudia on 8-13-2009 at 12:10 am
My mom craved fruit loops when she was preganant with me (something I can’t stand to eat) and chili dogs for my sister who is now a vegan.
I really hope those cravings don’t come back to hunt us when we’re pregnant!
posted by Sarah-Jane on 8-13-2009 at 12:14 am
I am in my second trimester with my 4th child. Everynight, I eat pickles!! But one night I was craving a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich. So I ate them both and chased it down with a tall glass of ice cold milk. It hit the spot!!
posted by Valerie on 8-13-2009 at 11:10 am
I’m pregnant now (nearly 16 weeks). I had no real cravings in the first trimester (in the sense that I had to eat something specific NOW or needed to send hubby out for things in the middle of the night), but I developed food aversions. Normal things that I liked and used to eat every day. Things like chocolate. Or yogurt. Mangoes or any other kind of fresh fruit. What I DID eat was a lot of cheese and Kraft Dinner. Unfortunately I’m a tad lactose intolerant so it was frequently hard to tell whether the upset tummy was baby-related nausea or dairy-related. Not a fun time. It’s better now. I can eat peaches now that they’re in season. At least it’s a start.
posted by Irhie on 8-17-2009 at 11:53 am
Now at 16 weeks, I KNEW that I was pregnant when I no longer wanted a glass of white wine right before dinner. Instead, I couldn’t get the thought of having a Pimms Cup out of my head – and I still can’t. I have tried many ways to have this non-alcoholically (there is really no substitute for Pimms), and the best I’ve come up with is mixing iced tea and ginger ale.
Also was thrilled to find candy corn for sale so far before Halloween. I ate the whole bag before I even made it home from the grocery store.
posted by Colleen on 8-17-2009 at 2:08 pm
No construction materials, thanks goodness, but at 5 1/2 months pregnant, I have had a major craving for burnt hot dogs DRENCHED in mustard. What makes this weird is that, pre-pregnancy, I hated hot dogs and was not a big enough fan of mustard to drown a hot dog into it.
I have yet to have one though, cause apparently it’s on the not-so-good-for-pregnant-ladies list (along with a lot of other really tasty things I never knew would be illegal for the new inhabitant in my belly). So I’ve been sticking to my second, less odd, craving: pizza.
posted by Jo on 8-17-2009 at 3:35 pm
I craved two things. The first one was fried cheese balls dipped in vanilla ice cream. The second was a combination of orange and chocolate. I would either it chocolate tootsie roll suckers or I would drink sunkist and eat a chocolate candy bar at the same time.
posted by Keshia on 8-17-2009 at 8:48 pm
When my wife was 8 1/2 months pregnant with our second child we were in the habit of taking our 2 year old to the pool to go swimming. I would play around with our daughter while my wife would float around cooling off. One day (as pregnant women are ALWAYS the topic of conversations) another mother at the pool struck up a conversation with my wife which I was able to overhear snippets of.
Turns out that this ladies craving almost poisoned her. She was obsessed with/craved cleaning products. It wasn’t a neat-freak thing either. It started rather innocently, cleaning the counters etc. Then it got progressively worse. She began sniffing the counters for extended periods of time after cleaning them. Then she progressed to smelling the sponge/papertowel. But it didn’t stop there. Soon she began to wipe herself down with the cleaning agents. Not in an OCD attempt to keep herself clean but just because she was craving the cleaners. Her craving peaked when she would wait for people to be not looking and then lick the sponge or the freshly cleaned counter. It all came to a head when after a month or so of doing this she was \inexplicably sick\ for a week or so. When she finally confessed to her OB he made her promise to stop and to never do it again. She stopped the licking and gradually the smearing on her body, but she continued for the duration of her pregnancy to sniff the counters. After she gave birth she said that she never had that kind of craving again.
I lucked out with my wife who only had a short, mild craving for subway melts during one of her two pregnancies.
posted by Jon Woods on 8-17-2009 at 11:30 pm
My one sister-in-law had at least one 7-11 Slurpee every day. Didn’t matter the flavor, and it was usually more than one a day, but that was about the extent of it.
My other, currently pregnant, sister-in-law doesn’t really have cravings- which bores the hell out of me because I love hearing about them. She has moments though where, randomly, she’ll say things like “You know what sounds good? Sweet potato fries.” or “You know what sounds good? Brownie sundaes.” But nothing exciting.
posted by Laced on 8-18-2009 at 1:37 am
I ate a TON of nacho cheese Doritos dipped in grape jelly when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter. Now, she cannot STAND either one of them – lol!
posted by AmiLand on 8-20-2009 at 4:25 pm
I craved Worchestershire sauce. I put it on EVERYTHING! But not only that, I drank it straight from the bottle. And as far as meals, i couldn’t eat anything for a while except Speghetti-o’s with Meatballs. It had to have Meatballs, tried the plain, and the one with the franks.. no good. I sprinkled it with sugar, garlic powder, and pepper and topped it w/ cheese. Yummy!
posted by Melanie on 8-20-2009 at 5:08 pm
no real cravings, per se, but serious odor aversions. It was hell riding the subway next to someone smelling of onions and curry! Shallow mouth breathing the whole time to keep from loosing it during rush hour.
Also, like Cindy, I love coffee and even have a coffee tattoo, but with both children my first indication of pregnancy was the sudden end of interest in my favorite hot beverage!
posted by Jane on 8-21-2009 at 12:00 am
I had my son in January this year, and I went thru stages of cravings and nausea.
At first I was nauseated all the time, and could only eat Honey Maid graham crackers. (I remember crying because all the foods I loved made me want to throw up if I even thought of or smelled them.)
Later, and throughout the rest of the pregnancy, it was chocolate chip cookies – had to be the kind my grocery store baked in their bakery.
For most of the pregnancy I absolutely HATED my favorite kind of pizza because the sauce made me sick (Jack’s Rising Crust ‘the works’) and could only stomach a chicken alfredo pizza, which I can no longer eat because we just ate too much of it
By the end, I had to eat spicy stuff all the time. Except for breakfast when I ate the cookies. It was mainly about the sauce, but I’d always eat it on stuff. We would even pocket mittfuls of Taco Bell sauce to use in our cooking at home. I liked that sauce the best.
Interestingly, the non-pregnant me likes to keep ice cream in the freezer cause I enjoy some every other day or so. But I noticed we didn’t have any for about 5 months, and I absolutely didn’t care because I was eating cookies.
posted by ShelleyKaye on 8-21-2009 at 9:33 am
Oh yeah and the one time I had a craving where I had to have it RIGHT THEN I was about 7 mos along and was a little scared of driving alone at night cause it was getting colder then and I have terrible night vision. So I asked my husband to go into town and get me a cheeseburger from Culver’s. He said it was a waste of money when he could make one at home for me. He didn’t understand it HAD to be Culver’s.
At the time I was trying to ask nicely but insistently because I didn’t want to be a dragon lady. Sadly I didn’t get my burger.
Moral of the story: To get what you want throw him out on his ear and tell him not to come back until he gets you what you want I guess.
posted by ShelleyKaye on 8-21-2009 at 9:41 am
When my best friend was pregnant with my god-daughter she came to work one and day on our break takes out a can of spam, some saltines, and jalepenos and starts making some sort of cracker sandwich.. I wanted to throw up. We also went out to eat to Denny’s one night, she ordered french toast ate it all within 5minutes and sat there and cried for another 15 because ” It was so good she just wanted to wrap herself in the frenchtoast and go to sleep. “
posted by Jazz on 8-22-2009 at 12:24 am
I’m about 6 months pregnant. I haven’t had any really weird cravings. Main thing for me is I can’t get enough fruit, especially strawberries. Earlier on, when it was peach season and I remember just the smell of peaches in the grocery store got me to buy a bag. I have also developed a real like for orange soda (doesn’t matter the brand), which I like, but not like now.
I’ve had several aversions:
- Mexican food early on (love it normally) and again now ’cause it’s giving me heartburn
- The smell of some fried foods – I got some French Toast Sticks at Sonic yesterday and never ate them because of the smell.
posted by Grace on 8-22-2009 at 3:09 pm
I craved cleaning supplies. Not to eat but the smell of them. I especially liked Simple Green lemon scented spray. I had a sample size that I carried around with me all of the time. I would take it out and smell it repeatedly throughout the day. (I was careful not to over do it. No huffing.)
posted by Wendy on 8-22-2009 at 4:03 pm
My mom craved chocolate chip cookies while pregnant with me and them also while she was pregnant with my brother.
posted by Alexandra on 8-23-2009 at 9:11 pm
Unfortunately, I crave fast food from specific chains that are in places I grew up, but the closest ones are now several states away. And a craving deferred does definitely fester! And there are no substitutes, as several posters noted- if you want Doritos, it better be Doritos, not store brand nacho cheese chips, and not any flavor other than the one specifically desired! Right now I am making do with Rice-a-roni two meals a day.
posted by Emma on 8-24-2009 at 2:36 pm
My fiance’s mother HAD to have a banana split from Sonic every day. While this is not strange per se, it is interesting to note that I met him at a BYOB (Bring Your Own Banana) party. We’re going to serve banana splits in lieu of or in addition to a wedding cake in celebration of this coincidence.
posted by Holly on 8-28-2009 at 11:15 pm
I craved the smell of gasoline in my first pregnancy, and the smell of tires in my second. So far for this one, nothing…maybe it’ll be new car smell.
posted by Kate on 8-31-2009 at 3:51 pm
With my first pregnancy I couldn’t eat enough steak. I would go to Denny’s at 2AM because it was the only place open just to get my fix. When I was pregnant with my twins I craved starbucks caramel fraps(decaf and no more than twice a week) and spicy Mexican food. I usually hate spicy food but I had to have it. My oldest son now loves meat and the twins love to eat salsa by the spoonful…who needs chips anyway?
posted by Michelle on 9-1-2009 at 9:00 pm
My mom craved strawberries with my 19 year-old sister, ice with me, ice cream with my 16 year-old sister, and potatoes wit my 3 year-old brother and 13 month-old sister.
Results:
19 year-old has strawberry-shaped birthmark on top of her head–no joke.
I love the cold weather and munching on ice.
16 year-old LOVES ice cream.
3 year-old cannot get enough french fries
13 month-old loves potato salad.
posted by Jo on 9-7-2009 at 10:03 pm
My wife, both pregnancys, craved cucumbers, lime juice, salt and hot sause. I actually enjoyed it too, so….
posted by Matt on 9-15-2009 at 7:55 am
I was lucky during my pregnancy and only had a few cravings. The only things I wanted to eat were california rolls and extra spicy hot wings. And I had to have spicy tuna rolls. But I didn’t want to actually eat them, all I craved was the smell. I would order spicy tuna in a bowl, and sit at the table sniffing it (the restaurant staff was very understanding).
After my son was born I realized that spicy tuna rolls weren’t something I could ever eat again. I can’t stand them anymore.
But my 3 year old son LOVES spicy food.
posted by Khati on 9-15-2009 at 1:08 pm
Orange juice. I’ve had orange juice before and like it just fine, but during the 1st trimester of my first pregnancy, orange juice tasted like something wonderful that I had newly discovered. And I couldn’t eat eggs, although before and after my pregnancies, scrambled eggs were a staple. No eggs, couldn’t stand to look at them, much less eat them.
posted by Rusty on 9-18-2009 at 8:14 pm
I could not get enough of a very specific combination: scrambled eggs smothered in mustard (we’re talking at least a quarter of a cup) and caked with black pepper. I ate a large plate of it at least twice a day for most of my first pregnancy, and just for kicks tried it a few months back.
It’s awful.
Fortunately, the poor kid came out relatively normal.
posted by Amanda on 9-19-2009 at 11:02 pm
i was an interpreter at a clinic and a lady came in who was pregnant but hadn’t gained any weight for a couple weeks. she finally confessed that she wasn’t eating anything but dirt, because everything else made her puke. after her husband caught her in their garden one too many times, she went to home depot, bought an enormous bag of fresh dirt, and kept it in her car to snack on.
posted by Sarah on 9-21-2009 at 9:13 am
My wife craved cheeseburgers with our oldest. Unfortunately, they had to be SHONEY’S cheeseburgers. I had the “gall” to bring home one from somewhere else whilst in a hurry. She cried for hours. Of course, like most other posters here, my son LOVES cheeseburgers.
posted by kevin on 9-23-2009 at 1:44 pm
With my daughter, it was watermelon & sauerkraut (not at the same time!) I would eat at least half a watermelon a week ( the biggest I could find ), often a whole one, sometimes one & a half. And I would eat the sauerkraut straight out of the can. I still prefer it that way, though now it is a once or twice a year thing, instead of everyday.
With my son, there was only one craving, & that was ice. My preference was crushed, but in a pinch I would eat cubes. In fact, I ate so many I actually broke one of my teeth, so badly the rest had to be removed. Ouch! That’s a little far to go for a craving.
Oh, & to the lady that craved Culver’s–I love their burgers so much I have to eat them naked–no bun, no condiments, because they interfere with/cover up the taste! I just sit there & eat the patty! YUM!
posted by Susan on 9-27-2009 at 3:52 pm
During my first pregnancy I craved (drumroll please): Fried chicken livers with honey. My stomach turns just thinking about it now, I’ve never liked chicken livers, but I could hardly go a day without them. I went to Grandy’s almost every day! I would also go to Furr’s cafeteria about once a week for liver & onions, which I also have always detested.
posted by Liz on 9-29-2009 at 3:55 pm
When I was pregnant with my son (now almost 2), I couldn’t go a day without Pringles Salt & Vinegar chips. Had to be the salt & vinegar kind, couldn’t be anything else! If I didn’t have those, I co uld get by with a salad drowning in Italian dressing and LOTS of spaghetti and garlic bread. It got to the point that when my husband asked me what I wanted for dinner, he didn’t even have to wait for the answer!
While my mom was pregnant with me, she craved cottage chese and fritos… yes, together.
posted by Cassie Baran on 9-30-2009 at 4:27 pm
I craved Weinerschnitzel mustard dogs with EXTRA mustard, and canned peaches with cottage cheese. Strangley, my son hates both!
posted by D on 10-4-2009 at 12:57 am
My mom craved sushi and Coke slurpees with my brother, sister, and I. Of the three of us, my sister is the only one that will eat sushi now, but we all love a good Coke slurpee. :)
posted by Melodye on 10-4-2009 at 11:04 pm
My mom craved radishes starting at her pregnancies and then for years afterwards. She would eat two to three bunches a day – very weird. What’s even weirder though is that the cravings didn’t stop for years after the last of her children and it took cancer for them to stop. That’s hormones for you!
posted by Emily on 10-5-2009 at 8:59 pm
My mother craved meatball subs and watermelon. My dad tells stories of impossible midnight searches for watermelons that winter.
posted by Amber on 10-7-2009 at 11:53 pm
My mom would consume bags and bags of mangoes and grapefruit when she was pregnant with me and would eat TONS of chile peppers and jalapeños. She also apparently developed a habit (that she still somewhat continues to this day, almost 27 years later) of mixing her food up all together and eating it like that.
Result?
I absolutely CANNOT stand the smell, much less taste, of mango and grapefruit and I’m horribly allergic to chile peppers and jalapeños. Also, its slightly OCD-like and people think I’m weird but, I have to keep all of my food separated and certain foods I can only consume in a certain order/way. Its odd but I can’t stand to have my food mixed together and there are foods that taste sickening to me if I don’t eat them a specific way. For example, I’ve only eaten pizza with the toppings actually on it twice and it was one of grossest things I’ve ever had. If I peel the toppings off and eat them last I’m a happy camper!
posted by KillerQueen11 on 10-8-2009 at 5:14 am
with me my mother craved cottage cheese and pineapple…together! Not that bad but i can’t STAND cottage cheese :)
The really weird one was my aunt who craved Captain CrUnch Berries with a side of sardines… just right out of their little can! We still get grossed out whenever anyone talks about it!!!
posted by Katy on 10-8-2009 at 11:29 am
My daughter is 10 now, but when I was pregnant with ehr ALL I wanted was Cheetos puffs with mini Reese’s cups mixed in them. All washed down with orange juice.
I’ll still do that sometimes, just because it’s SO GOOD. :)
posted by Noelle on 10-8-2009 at 5:10 pm
With my first…oranges. I’d eat a 10 pound bag every week. Not the juice, just the fruit. It was the only food that was always “safe” i.e. it never made me feel sick and always made me feel better. With this one…it shifts from day to day, but I pretty consistenly want slurpees. Red ones. Tacos are also friendly at the moment, but who knows for how long.
Oh, and raisin bran. KELLOGGS raisin bran :)
posted by AmyZ on 10-13-2009 at 3:22 am
With all three pregnancies I craved spicy food. With my eldest it was spicy hot chili, my second it was Hot peppers on hot ham grinders, what is weird is any other time meat made me very ill, with my youngest it was extra wasabi with California Rolls. With all three I couldnt stand to be near meat, two of my three kids wouldnt eat it for a long time.
posted by BodiceaW on 10-13-2009 at 7:17 pm
My best friend craved liverwurst and avocado sandwiches. With my first, I had a banana split every afternoon with one scoop each of coffee and chocolate icecream. My daughter is lactose intolerant.
posted by karen on 10-14-2009 at 12:03 am
I craved McDonald’s pickles. My poor husband or my best friend would drive the 28 miles to McDonald’s for me and order a cheeseburger with a side of pickles. It couldn’t be easy like a jar, they HAD to be from McDonald’s, sliced and warm. I HATE pickles now.
posted by just me on 10-14-2009 at 3:14 am
My mom craved KFC mashed potatoes with my brother. Not in and of itself weird, ecxcept that as soon as she ate them, she would throw up, and then want more.
posted by Gianna on 10-17-2009 at 5:56 pm
When I was pregnant, my sweet tooth was on overdrive. I craved banana popsicles (hubby quickly learned not to let those run out) and yellow cake batter shakes with cookie dough in them. I also craved all spicy foods. My daughter, who is just over a year old, is an easy eater who will eat pretty much anything you put in front of her and a lot of it.
posted by m00c0w13 on 10-18-2009 at 5:37 pm
I crave the smell of regular scented Pine-Sol. It is heaven to me. I also love the scent of gasoline, and to eat, I crave Ultra Strength Tums. The REALLY funny thing is… I’m not now or have I ever been pregnant. Where are MY cravings coming from???
posted by Katie on 10-22-2009 at 1:23 am
Talk about super score, when my wife was pregnant with our second child, it was red meat. We had plenty of steak for several months.
posted by bryan on 10-23-2009 at 7:11 pm
Vinegar. At one point I gave up not being able to sprinkle enough on my food and just drank it straight from the bottle.
While my mom was pregnant with me she ate guacamole constantly and I have always loved avocados and eat about a half one a day.
posted by Juliet on 10-24-2009 at 6:42 pm
When I was pregnant I craved Modeling clay.
I also couldn’t eat anything but McChickens from McDonalds. And If I couldn’t get to mcdonalds… I couldn’t eat… because EVERYTHING made me nauseous :(
posted by Heather on 11-1-2009 at 8:00 pm
When my mom was pregnant with my sister she was constantly craving lettuce. She would grab a head of lettuce out of the fridge throw some salt on it and proceed to bite the lettuce off the head. It was the weirdest thing… oddly my sister doesn’t like vegetables.
posted by Samantha on 11-2-2009 at 10:53 pm
My best friend craved dirt when she was pregnant. Doctor said cravings for dirt and ice are signs of an iron deficiency. She also ate 4 steaks in one afternoon!
When I was pregnant, I craved wonton soup and crunchy beef tacos. I would order an entire Chinese meal just to get wonton soup delivered.
posted by Kim on 11-4-2009 at 3:41 pm
1st pregnancy – craved sour grapefruit juice with no sugar
I’m pregnant now at 12 weeks. Earlier this week I HAD to have a french dip. It was only 10am and nobody served it yet. I was going nuts then thought maybe Arby’s would do. It was ok but I still keep thinking about french dip, just not as urgently.
posted by Andrea on 11-5-2009 at 5:45 pm