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The Quick 10: 10 Strange Pregnancy Cravings
by Stacy Conradt - February 17, 2009 - 3:22 PM

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orangesOne of my best friends is having a baby in about… oh… five weeks. Give or take, you know how those things go. She hasn’t really had any weird food cravings (just oranges and lots of orange-flavored things), but she inspired the Quick 10 today nonetheless. It’s gotten somewhat normal to crave weird combos like pickles and ice cream, but sometimes moms-to-be crave minerals like talc (reports of ladies noshing on talcum powder are apparently not uncommon). The results of a survey conducted by Gurgle.com reveal 10 of the most common strange pregnancy cravings.

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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Comments (384)

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Not a strange craving, but I did crave pizza.

    posted by Vickey on 2-17-2009 at 3:53 pm

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. The ice craving is also a common occurrence of people who are anemic.

    posted by Dru on 2-17-2009 at 4:07 pm

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. The ice craving is also a common occurrence for people who are anemic.

    posted by Dru on 2-17-2009 at 4:10 pm

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. Weetabix with soy milk. Every afternoon.

    posted by Alison on 2-17-2009 at 5:10 pm

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. Won. Ton. Soup.
    I even ate it during labor.

    posted by Shannon on 2-17-2009 at 6:10 pm

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. Welch’s grape juice was about the only thing I craved.

    posted by Diann on 2-17-2009 at 8:42 pm

  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. 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

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. 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

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. 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

  64. 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

  65. 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

  66. 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

  67. 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

  68. 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

  69. 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

  70. Oh, and those onesies are too cute!

    posted by NYCGirl on 2-18-2009 at 4:30 am

  71. 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

  72. I crave avacado with soymilk & lemon mixed together with sardines on the side

    posted by adele on 2-18-2009 at 8:01 am

  73. 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

  74. 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

  75. 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

  76. 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

  77. 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

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. 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

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. 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

  87. 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

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. 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

  96. 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

  97. 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

  98. 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

  99. 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

  100. 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

  101. 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

  102. 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

  103. 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

  104. 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

  105. 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

  106. 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

  107. 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

  108. 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

  109. 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

  110. 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

  111. 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

  112. 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

  113. 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

  114. 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

  115. 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

  116. 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

  117. 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

  118. 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

  119. 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

  120. 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

  121. 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

  122. 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

  123. 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

  124. 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

  125. 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

  126. 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

  127. 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

  128. 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

  129. 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

  130. 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

  131. Oranges dipped in mayonnaise. I craved it my entire pregnancy with my twins.

    posted by laura on 7-3-2009 at 6:32 pm

  132. 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

  133. 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

  134. 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

  135. 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

  136. 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

  137. 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

  138. 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

  139. I craved Arby’s Roast Beef 24/7 when I was pregnant.

    posted by Tragic on 7-10-2009 at 5:24 pm

  140. 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

  141. 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

  142. 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

  143. 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

  144. My wife craved extra hot Chicken wings.

    posted by Zwiedna on 7-22-2009 at 7:03 am

  145. 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

  146. 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

  147. 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

  148. 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

  149. 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

  150. 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

  151. 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

  152. 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

  153. 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

  154. 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

  155. 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

  156. 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

  157. 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

  158. 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

  159. 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

  160. 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

  161. 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

  162. 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

  163. 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

  164. 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

  165. 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

  166. 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

  167. 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

  168. 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

  169. 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

  170. 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

  171. 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

  172. 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

  173. 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

  174. 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

  175. 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

  176. 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

  177. 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

  178. 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

  179. 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

  180. 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

  181. 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

  182. 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

  183. 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

  184. 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

  185. 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

  186. 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

  187. 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

  188. 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

  189. 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

  190. 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

  191. 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

  192. 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

  193. 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

  194. 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

  195. 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

  196. 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

  197. 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

  198. 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

  199. 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

  200. 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

  201. 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

  202. 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

  203. 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

  204. 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

  205. 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

  206. 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

  207. 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

  208. 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

  209. 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

  210. 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

  211. 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

  212. 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

  213. Im pregnant with my 4th and have craved sponges..the ones on a rope you wash yourself with!! I love the smell,drooling just thinking aboout it now and costing me $4 a day..just have to smell and chew and grind it then spit it out!! what the ?? anybody else??

    posted by trish on 11-10-2009 at 9:50 am

  214. Oh and by the way Ive craved the sponges through all 4 pregnancies!! and cant bear to bite into one when not pregnant!

    posted by trish on 11-10-2009 at 9:52 am

  215. Nothing too weird while I was pregnant…chocolate anything. Chip cookies, brownies, cake, whatever. Just give me chocolate. Now. And pizza and macaroni and cheese. Together. Cici’s Pizza here in Ohio even has macaroni and cheese pizza.

    The worst was an aversion to pickles! That is weird by pregnancy standards. I normally don’t like them, and if they come on a plate in a restaurant, I’ll just pick it up and put it on a napkin. But when I was pregnant, watch out! If a pickle even touched my food, I would know. I could smell it and taste it. I went as far as to tell servers at restaurants that I WOULD know if a pickle touched my plate and will not eat the food. Only a handful of times did I send it back.

    As a joke while pregnant, my husband thought it would by funny to swipe pickle juice under my nose….He learned quickly that you don’t mess with a pregnant woman like that. That was the only time I was sick during my entire pregnancy. For a week, I swear I could smell the pickle still and I would get sick.

    We laugh about it today, but it was so not funny then. I was so mad…

    posted by Jenner on 11-10-2009 at 4:42 pm

  216. Polish sausage dipped in chocolate frozen yogurt.

    Even while I was eating it, I knew it was disgusting, but I HAD to have it.

    posted by Kelli on 11-10-2009 at 9:29 pm

  217. I’m due in about a month. At some point I was craving nothing but sirloin steaks. Thank God I can cook! I was buying a huge steak from our local fresh market and ate nothing but this steak and a salad for the 24 hours. Now I’m craving tums, any kind.

    posted by Irina on 11-14-2009 at 3:26 am

  218. I had an extreme craving for taco bell taco sauce mild(it had to be mild). I would put it on everything. I would load my purse with packets of sauce everytime I went there.
    It didnt matter what it was it needed some taco sauce drowning it. Nothing tasted right without it.
    I would even get my friends in on it and bring me packets of sauce.

    posted by Anastasia on 11-18-2009 at 6:15 pm

  219. When my mom was pregnant with me she HAD to have tuna on saltine crackers even though she hated (and still hates) tuna. My dad said that she would sit there and grumble the whole time while she ate it. I can’t stand tuna!

    My older sister HAD to have a steak when pregnant with her first child, she was vegetarian and hadn’t had meat in 15 years, it made her horribly sick since her body wasn’t used to red meat anymore.

    With my son I craved salt, on everything from pizza to mac and cheese and even in my breakfast cereal. Also Sweet Tarts, I couldn’t get enough. I would eat them til my tongue and the insides of my checks were raw from the sourness. Luckily when that craving came on it was right around halloween so I was able to get the huge bags.

    With my daughter I wanted cottage cheese scooped up in Nacho Cheese Doritos. Other than that I craved mostly textures, creamy, crunchy, chewy, etc.

    I was fortunate in that my husband worked at a grocery store so I would just call him and get him to bring me whatever I wanted which also eliminated the 2AM runs to the store.

    posted by Laura Lee on 11-18-2009 at 8:07 pm

  220. When I was pregnant with my son, I had to have pinepple in my spaghetti. I even took a can of pineapple chunks to a restaurant to make sure I would have it.

    And every Friday I would go to Famous Amos for lunch to get Chicken and Dumplings, and for one of my side items I ordered extra dumplings in a to-go container so I could have some for and afternoon snack.

    posted by Carole on 11-20-2009 at 2:49 pm

  221. I guess my weirdest ones were Strawberry Milk and Salt & Vinegar Pringles – together :S And regular corn dogs with maple syrup! LOL the things you can get away wtih when you’re preggo!

    posted by Claire on 11-28-2009 at 3:08 pm

  222. I have weird cravings while NOT pregnant. Example: vinegar and salt potatoe chips and m&m’s.

    1stchild grapefruit but only from a neighborhood tree. from the store didn’t taste right. and fudge pops tons end of 1st and 2nd pregnancies. Florida late summer/fall the pops were cold. I only got sick when I did not eat often enough.

    posted by susan on 11-29-2009 at 8:58 pm

  223. My mom craved popcicles. I was born in March, in Colorado (I don’t know if you’ve all been to CO, but March is still like the middle of winter), in a snowstorm; but on the way to the hospital my dad had to go and get my mom a cherry popcicle before they went to the hospital. Also she craved spicy anything. And now, you guessed it: I love cherry popcicles, all year round. And my first solid food was ground up taco meat, I wouldn’t touch baby food. Now, I love spicy food, I get the spiciest salsa at Chipotle and then put extra Tabasco on it!

    I bet when I’m pregnant I won’t be able to stand anything spicy.

    posted by tess on 12-14-2009 at 12:26 am

  224. pickles & oranges….I was having a sandwich lunch with a piece of fruit & got hooked on just the combination of the pickle & orange
    I think it had to do w/the something sweet & salty
    because with my 2nd child it was chex mix & grapes

    posted by shopbettyshop on 12-16-2009 at 2:48 pm

  225. during all three of my mothers pregnancies she would only eat what she craved. with my older sister it was hy-power hot tommilies, my self it was either liver and onions or plain cheese burgers dipped in chocolate pudding, and with my younger sister it was greasy cheese pizza or four cheese lazgna. the only thing that was passed on was me dipping plain cheese burgers in chocolate pudding, other than that my sister’s or i would touch anything our mother craved

    posted by larry craig on 12-19-2009 at 8:32 pm

  226. I know this is an old thread… but I had to comment that I am 8 months pregnant and have recently begun to crave the smell of Comet. So badly that I bought a container when I finally found it at a convenience store! It’s odd because I have had a normal, healthy pregnancy (no strange cravings, deficiencies or bad test results).. the BOOM! out of nowhere: Comet!

    No urge to eat it (yet??? LOL), but I will clean the sinks and stove with it whenever I get the chance to – just to smell it! My mom used it when I was a kid, but I don’t remember liking it so much like I do now! Plus, I LOVE knowing how clean things are afterward! Weird, indeed!

    posted by Sharon Potts on 12-23-2009 at 6:28 pm

  227. I’m a vegetarian, and I would have taken someone out for creamed chipped beef on toast just like my mom used to make when I was a kid. I hadn’t eaten red meat in probably ten years when I was preggers, but man, I wanted it.

    I also craved lemons, lemon anything, I sucked on raw lemons, lemonade, lemon candy, lemon popsicles…lemons.

    I craved ice too – but less about the taste and more because it helped curb nausea.

    posted by Kathleen Kaufman on 12-30-2009 at 1:11 am

  228. For a week I craved Good Seasons Italian Dressing made with Apple Cider Vinegar. I would pour it into a bowl and use a carrot to scoop out the dressing and eat it. When the carrot was finished, I would lick the bowl.

    Right now I am just ending a 2 week craving for P.F. Chang’s Moo Goo Gai Pan with Shrimp.

    I am still craving IZZE’s Clementine (Orange) Soda and drink like 3 a day! Before that it was clementine oranges (about 10 a day) but I got sick of those.

    posted by Stacey on 12-30-2009 at 2:23 am

  229. ranch doritos with A1 sauce

    chocolate covered ice cubes, i’d pour magic shell over and ice cube and freeze for a few
    grape jelly and mashed potatoes from KFC

    posted by samantha on 12-30-2009 at 12:39 pm

  230. My mother in law craved copious amounts of undiluted lemon juice. My wife craved raw lemons like mad, and ate clementines like they were going out of style (one bag a day). Twigs are her substitute for coffee.

    posted by Joe on 12-30-2009 at 3:25 pm

  231. Pregnancy #1 – peppermint patties and green olives AT THE SAME TIME

    Pregnancy #3 – oatmeal every night; My son could not eat anything with oats, whole wheat, or barley until he was about 4 years old due to a severe reaction. We had him tested for all sorts of digestive stuff, but it turns out I just made him sensitive.

    posted by Jenice on 12-31-2009 at 1:57 pm

  232. I’m a guy, so obviously this isn’t due to any sort of internally grown human being, but I absolutely adore a malted milkshake and a pickled egg. Yeah, go ahead and gag. I like snickers bars and sour cream and onion chips together, too – this may be… slightly less weird.

    posted by Oliver on 1-2-2010 at 2:41 pm

  233. This is not a pregnancy craving, but close enough. My sister-in-law said she produced more milk for my nephew when she ate moon pies. There were a lot of moon pies at their house when she was nursing!!

    posted by Caleigh on 1-4-2010 at 11:36 pm

  234. With my first born (boy) I craved green olives, garlic dill deli pickles- HAD to be deli pickles- and tomato, mayo, and american cheese sandwiches on white bread. Lots of those deli pickles on the side. Then with my second child (boy) it was teriyaki chicken with broccoli- the chinese restaurant knew me by name! lol
    Then my girl… every single day I ate pineapple with cottage cheese and I had to have it. I also craved tuna and mayo with her and my OB limited me to one can per month. If you had come near my tuna sandwich I would have belted you.

    posted by Chris on 1-7-2010 at 5:53 am

  235. My mom craved black olives with me. To this day I cannot get enough black olives…lol..

    posted by Dee on 1-7-2010 at 6:48 am

  236. I just finished a very yummy snack of spanish olives swimming in mustard and hot sauce! I have to have hot sauce on most things…

    posted by jules on 1-7-2010 at 7:31 pm

  237. with my first child I craved oatmeal creampies and red gatorade,

    my second child I craved the smell of pine sol (I would spray it on the shower walls while I turned on the hot water to make the smell more intense) and zote laundry soap, in fact any mexican detergent (Foca, Roma, Ariel)had my mouth watering,

    my third child I craved spaghetti sandwhiches, but it had to be Wattie’s brand spaghetti and the bread had to be buttered with Anchor brand butter from New Zealand/Australia…

    posted by ruta on 1-10-2010 at 4:27 pm

  238. I’m one of nine kids, so we witnessed the many odd things Mom would eat. I most remember the dill pickle/canned pineapple sandwich, with mayo on white bread. I’ve only had three myself, my oddest craving was for taco salad and butterfinger bars, eaten together.

    posted by Ruth on 1-22-2010 at 11:31 am

  239. I wanted bananas and gummy bears. Sadly the baby didn’t survive.

    posted by Lydia on 2-5-2010 at 7:33 am

  240. The craving mud/dirt is an old Southern thing. Something about the iron oxide I believe?
    I’ve never been and don’t plan to be pregnant, but my food cravings and combinations often lead family and friends to declare that they wouldn’t have a clue if I was pregnant. I’ve been eating pickles and ice cream since I was little and I think ketchup is delicious on carrot sticks and apple slices, for two examples.

    posted by Jessica on 2-5-2010 at 5:48 pm

  241. My mom craved Schlotzsky’s sandwiches with me, Chinese fried rice with my twin sisters, and Sonic’s frito pies with my youngest sister. My twin sisters and I (10 and 7 at the time) thought the craving Sonic thing was GREAT.

    I won’t have any children for a few years, but I’m very nervous about what I wind up craving. I hope it’s something healthy!

    posted by Kate H on 2-5-2010 at 8:57 pm

  242. I am 8 weeks and EVERYTHING makes me ill! The only thing I can keep down is a five layer burrito from Taco Bell, but the thought of Taco Bell makes me gag! I have diabetes so I have to be super careful what I eat but I’ll tell ya, a can of frosting with graham crackers, or a bowl of peanut butter mixed with sugar and butter, or McDonalds ice cream with FRESH fries together….OH boy would I be happy!
    My hubby is happy, one of the cravings that I can satisfy is the desire for a medium rare steak grilled on a charcoal grill (although he won’t marinate his in pineapple juice or smother it in cottage cheese) we can both enjoy this one together. LOL

    posted by L.J. on 2-15-2010 at 12:50 am

  243. Green mango with fermented shrimp paste. (Then again, this isn’t really unusual in the Philippines.) :D

    posted by captcha on 2-15-2010 at 5:39 am

  244. My mother told me about one of her cravings when she was pregnant with me. She ate a 5 gallon jar of green olives in a two day period. And yes, I do like olives. :-)

    posted by Brian on 2-17-2010 at 3:54 pm

  245. Im pregnant now, and craving buffets. Not a specific food just the sight of all the food. Earlier on I craved mashed potatoes. The second trimester was the wierdest with me craving second hand smoke and pine sol smell….I enjoyed it in moderation of course. Until everyone else figured it out, then my husband banished himself to the bathroom to smoke and I was sad.

    posted by India on 2-20-2010 at 11:50 am

  246. I’m currently 18 weeks pregnant, and constantly crave Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and fresh french fries from McDonalds, with a chocolate Frosty from Wendy’s. I hardly ever allow myself to get it, but broke down at 11:30 pm the other day, and had to have it.

    My mom craved peanut butter and dill pickles on toast while she was pregnant with me.

    posted by Lex on 2-23-2010 at 10:26 pm

  247. Really? They say 1 can of tuna a month now? My mom said that, when she was pregnant with me (in 1989), she ate tons of canned tuna because she was under the impression that it was “brain food.” I’m pushing 21, and there’s nothing seriously wrong with me health-wise. Maybe I just got lucky.

    posted by Sandy on 2-25-2010 at 11:39 pm

  248. Cold cod fish and chocolate ice cream. (combnined)

    posted by Jennifer on 2-28-2010 at 8:53 am

  249. With my first I craved pickled cucumbers in garlic and sourcream. I ate it everyday for months. (had a girl) With my second I craved ripe, homegrown tomatoes. I ate them like apples, one after the other. Went through bushels of them right up until my labor. (had a boy)

    posted by sandyra on 3-4-2010 at 1:39 am

  250. When my mom was pregnant with my younger brother, she had extreme cravings for elephant ears (you know, the fried sugary dough from the fair??) Thankfully they started in the summer so there was always a county fair going on somewhere around us — i remember the day her co-workers drove to the next county to get her elephant ears, the craving was so bad!

    posted by amber on 3-10-2010 at 5:13 pm

  251. With my first I craved Nestle’s Crunch chocolate bars and MacDonald’s McChicken sandwiches. Mt friends would put the chocolate bars in my binders before class so I would get a surprise when I opened it up. (Sweet I know, but I think they may have been doing it for personal safety reasons…LOL)

    With my second, I couldn’t look at anything that was a soup or stew for the first 3 months. After that, it was large Pepsi Slurpees (a Slushie in other parts I think) and strawberries for me. I live in the north, and getting strawberries during the winter is expensive! The convenience store that I would get my Slurpees from left the machine on all winter for me, even though it normally shuts off for the season. The kids in the neighborhood thought it was great!! :D

    I have a girlfriend who craved bleach, Comet, dirt and rocks with her first baby. :S

    posted by Eden on 3-17-2010 at 11:49 am

  252. candy floss. thank god for 24 hour dvd stores that sell candy floss. my husband mad many a 3am trip to satisfy my cravings

    posted by lisa on 3-28-2010 at 2:33 am

  253. Shrimp tails…smoke flavouring…and the hottest szechuan chinese food I could obtain…

    posted by MJ on 4-2-2010 at 7:48 pm

  254. Craving things like ice, dirt, coal, etc. isn’t really that strange. All of the above are symptoms of anemia, and many, if not most, pregnant women are anemic during their pregnancies. The craving for these things is called pica and is quite normal…especially ice.

    posted by Stacey on 4-9-2010 at 2:41 pm

  255. I am currently 39 weeks pregnant and throughout the duration of my pregnancy I haven’t had a single pregnancy FOOD craving but for the past 3 or 4 months I started craving Pine-Sol (Lemon fresh scent ONLY)but since I obviously couldn’t drink it I decided I would just start mopping with it (luckily I have all hardwood floors in my house). I mop my entire house 1-2 times daily. Well today my mop broke (maybe I used it too much?)and I wasn’t able to mop today when I got my “urge” so almost as soon as I realized I couldn’t mop I started to crave almost any fast food I could possibly imagine, but my husband has my car at work right now so I have no way of going to get any fast food. I looked through my fridge, freezer, cabinets for anything fast food like and found some frozen fries, I pulled them out and plugged up my deep fryer and waited for it to heat up, while I was waiting for it to heat up I started shaking (I think I was pretty anxious about the fries)so to calm myself down until my fries were ready I sat down and smelled a bottle of Pine-Sol until I could cook my fries. Right at this moment I’m sitting here with a mixing bowl full of fries and a regular sized bowl full of ketchup, mayo and pepper mixed together and I’m eating them as fast as I can and I’m feeling a lot better, but this is definitley the weirdest thing that’s happened to me throughout my 2 pregnancies, that’s why I got on my laptop to googled pregnancy cravings and I found this page and felt like I needed to share my story.

    posted by Lauren on 4-17-2010 at 11:41 pm

  256. a little late but i just found out that a friend of mine’s mother craved dryer lint when she was pregnant with her youngest daughter…

    posted by Vault on 4-22-2010 at 8:28 pm

  257. Third Trimester: any sort of peppers in vinegar, anything orange…orange soda, cheese, canteloupe, oranges, cheetohs, cheezits

    Second Trimester: anything with tomato-based sauces

    First Trimester: citrus fruits, graham crackers

    The whole time: any fast food (greasy fries, hot dogs, burgers, chicken nuggets…)

    posted by inKub@tor on 4-24-2010 at 9:00 pm

  258. My friends mom craved pork blood. She wanted to drink it in buckets. *Shudder*

    Funnily my mom told me the same thing as Josh’s, she craved cigarette ash. And now i am too the only smoker in my family. Hm!

    posted by Germone on 4-25-2010 at 1:22 pm

  259. I craved V8 tomato juice; and before I knew I was pregnant, Bloody Marys, even though I didn’t consume a single one before or since.

    I was extremely sick the whole time, and the only thing I could eat was Ruffles potato chips. I even had to change my route to work, because I couldn’t walk past Whataburger without throwing up. That’s how I knew I was pregnant – I walked in with two co-workers and barfed everywhere.

    posted by A Nerd on 4-27-2010 at 1:40 pm

  260. When my mom was pregnant with me, she drank a lot of regular soda pop, mostly Coke or Pepsi. With my four younger siblings, she was told the sugar was bad for her, so she drank only Diet Coke. I cannot stand diet pops to this day, and my younger sibs cannot drink regular pops.
    When I was pregnant, I could not stand the smell or taste of chocolate. Normally, I love it. Since I worked in an ice cream shop at the time this was not a good time. I never got morning sickness, but only got nauseated when I got a big whiff of chocolate sauce.

    posted by Kay Hall on 5-4-2010 at 8:57 pm

  261. With my son I craved juice. I mostly just had cravings for orange juice or grapefruit. I work in a prison and I often would got to the commissary and buy the canned juice they have there. The inmates kept teasing me. That asked me what can of juice I was on or if I left any juice for them.

    posted by Dany on 5-8-2010 at 8:51 pm

  262. My mom said she would drink an insane amount of Perrier sparkling water when she was pregnant with me. Explains why I drink it all the time.

    posted by Liz on 5-10-2010 at 8:51 pm

  263. during my first pregnancy i had an insane craving for pink grapefruit, i Had to have one every day. as soon as my son was born, i havent wanted a grapefruit since. now pregnant with my second child, the weirdest craving i’ve had is pretzels dipped in peanut butter immediately followed by biting into a pickle, (though that was only one incident).

    posted by kate on 5-11-2010 at 10:25 am

  264. With my 1st daughter I craved EVERYTHING vanilla particularly A&W Cream Soda, chocolate coated vanilla ice cream bars, milk and sugar cookies, and French Vanilla Ice Cream (HAD to be French Vanilla).

    With my 2nd daughter I wanted chocolate and maple flavors sometimes simultaneously like chocolate coated maple cream candies and Aunt Jemima’s Butter Rich Maple Syrup on almost anything but I also craved chocolate turtle brownies and Baby Ruth bars.

    With my 3nd daughter it was a little more mixed. I wanted 7-up, marbled cheesecake, half sour pickles, those big rainbow whirly lollipops, apples and peanut butter, and vanilla cupcakes with blue icing (had to be blue icing for some reason).

    posted by Charlene on 5-18-2010 at 7:55 pm

  265. My mom craved peanut butter, jelly, and BACON sandwiches.
    Ew.

    My cravings with the two kids were just orange juice and runny, undercooked eggs. Not as gross as PB&J&bacon.

    posted by Eseide on 5-19-2010 at 1:38 pm

  266. My Mum craved vindaloo curry :) Now I’m like a spice fiend.

    posted by Elle on 5-19-2010 at 2:17 pm

  267. Well for me personally, for my first child I craved white cheddar cheez-its, pigs in the blanket, black and white cookies, salt and pepper potato chips, and buttercream frosting

    For my second child my cravings were espresso chip ice cream, cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, corn nuts, homemade buttermilk biscuits with strawberry jam, and disco fries (that’s french fries smothered in brown gravy and melted mozzarella, don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!)

    posted by Cora on 5-19-2010 at 3:00 pm

  268. When I was pregnant with my first child, I craved Seabreeze facial astringent. Because I obviously couldn’t drink it, I ended up sniffing it several times a day, and when that no longer satisfied my urge, I would pour entire bottles of it into my bath water and just soak up the fumes all around me. Turns out I had an iron deficiency called “pica.” Eating a big steak for dinner, or a bunch of spinach, at least once a week, seemed to take care of the problem.

    posted by Martie on 6-26-2010 at 5:47 am

  269. I’m about 5 1/2 months pregnant right now and I find that sometimes I have a dreadful craving for Wendy’s french fries and Carls Jr. hamburgers. That may not seem weird to you, but I’m a devoted natural/organic foodie and generally find fast food to be the most disgusting and unhealthy slop on the planet. I cannot stand eating it, and have sworn to cut Baby off from it once s/he is born.

    And incidentally, craving such odd non-foods as are found on your top ten list is an indicator of a dangerous vitamin deficiency of some kind.

    posted by Caryn on 6-27-2010 at 11:50 am

  270. 1st – pop tarts and coke (eww)
    2nd – strawberries and fried eggs
    3rd – pickles and sweet tea
    4th – mexican food
    5th and 6th I dont remember, we lost them both pretty early. Prob before cravings set in.
    But yeah, I craved crushed ice with all of them.

    posted by Stacy Braswell on 6-27-2010 at 6:26 pm

  271. I am pregnant right now and normally don’t eat alot of food, but I have been so sick that I have to keep something in my stomach. I have been enjoying Kimchi Jigae soup (Korean fermented cabbage soup). It always takes the nausea away but then gives me gas, so its a tradeoff. I never crave the same thing from one day to the next which makes grocery shopping really hard.

    posted by Annelise on 6-29-2010 at 7:08 pm

  272. I am not supposed to say it but with this baby I craved beer in my first trimester. What a nightmare! I don’t even crave beer when I am not pregnant!

    posted by elynorah on 7-3-2010 at 10:54 am

  273. First pregnancy – Icees – it was a girl
    Second – beef broth and salt and vinegar chips – it was a boy
    Grandma said she craved coffee grounds and mud dobbers’ nests

    posted by carrie M. on 7-3-2010 at 6:01 pm

  274. First pregnancy – a one time craving for a tuna pita and then an anytime craving for cheesecake.

    Second pregnancy – LOTS of lemons with ice water and pancakes with double syrup. My 12 yr old son loves lemons and pancakes.

    posted by Vicky on 7-6-2010 at 12:27 am

  275. I could not stop eating flaming hot cheetos dipped in cream cheese. YUM!

    posted by Lena on 7-13-2010 at 4:19 pm

  276. Meatball sub with lettuce and TONS of pickles

    posted by Lindsay on 7-14-2010 at 1:07 pm

  277. With my first pregnancy I could not hold down anything with tomato products (pizza, spaghetti, ketchup)even though I LOVE all that stuff. I did crave breakfast food (specifically eggs over medium, rye toast, bacon, french toast, cereal, cottage cheese). I also craved BEER all the time. I have never really liked beer, I usually like Cape Codders or other mixed drinks but I wanted beer sooooo badly that I would drink O’Douls just for the taste. I am 14 weeks with my second child and I haven’t really craved anything yet, I have had some really strong aversions. Tap water MUST be accompanied by lemon, fresh or bottled juice. The smell of green bell peppers makes me gag instantly. Also the smell of campfire is very soothing.

    posted by Lindsay on 7-14-2010 at 2:21 pm

  278. My youngest sister craved Gatorade and Comet. The cleaner. Yes. She would just pour it in the bathtub and just stand around in the bathroom taking deep breaths. Odd…

    posted by Aisha on 7-20-2010 at 1:49 pm

  279. I craved the orange pop thing as well. Couldn’t stand the smell of coffee, celery or a wood burning stove or fire in a fireplace.

    posted by Betsy on 7-22-2010 at 2:19 am

  280. With my oldest, I craved McDonald’s french fries and apple pies. We lived an hour from McD’s, so it was hard. I would pour 2 or 3 packs of salt over the fries. My son now only wants to eat McD’s. (He’s 16.) With my daughter, I only had one craving for waffles with cheesecake.

    This time, I’m having tons of aversions. In the first trimester, all I could eat were beef quesadillas. Now I’m in my second trimester, I can’t stand any meat of any type, and even a single bite of sweets makes me feel like I’m going to be sick. Cheese, plain water and peanut butter also now make me sick. I crave roma tomatoes, orange juice, and 2% milk and have to have at least the tomatoes and one of the beverages at every meal.

    posted by Janet on 7-22-2010 at 3:48 pm

  281. My mother consumed in massive quantities enchiladas and french fries dipped in chocolate shakes from McDonald’s. I love both foods, and the french fries dipped in chocolate shakes is one of my favorite food combos. The grease, salt and sugar are the best.

    posted by Jessica on 8-2-2010 at 12:14 am

  282. With my first pregnancy, I craved cold raw carrots. Bags of baby carrots. The second pregnancy all I could think about was sashimi. I only indulged twice, but I would think about it constantly, even dream about it. I spent a week’s worth of groceries in one day on cold raw fish when I gave birth. Now pregnant with my third, I can drink about 2 gallons of oj a day. I can’t get enough.

    posted by kelly on 8-4-2010 at 8:48 pm

  283. Here’s a weird one for ya- when I was pregnant with my second child, I craved the smell of bourbon on my husband’s breath as I was going to sleep. I don’t like the taste of bourbon. Never have. I just loved the way it smelled on him. I made him drink some every night before bed for months.

    posted by Heather on 8-5-2010 at 11:51 pm

  284. When I was pregnant with my daughter (who just turned two), I craved… horseradish. Just straight horseradish. I’d eat it plain. I’d go to Arby’s and dip my fries in their Horsey Sauce. This is only weird because I didn’t like horseradish before and I don’t like it now. (My daughter does like spicy foods, though…)

    I also had a strange aversion to bread throughout. Just the thought if it was enough to make me gag. Ironically enough, it’s one of my daughter’s favorite foods.

    posted by Kristina on 8-9-2010 at 9:00 am

  285. My mom didn’t really crave much during her pregnancy with me, but right before she went to the hospital to have me, she HAD to have a fountain Pepsi. Not from a can or a bottle. Fountain. Those were super hard to find 21 years ago in our tiny town.

    To this day, I *HATE* Pepsi. Won’t drink it.

    posted by Cashmere on 8-13-2010 at 10:07 pm

  286. I am 23 weeks pregnant. I have the urge to either lick or bite a tire. Just the smell of rubber is the most amazing, intoxicating smell to me. I woke up last night and had a headache and had horrible anxiety because I couldn’t smell a tire. I also crave the smell of Home Depot. I get frustrated and want to cry in Home Depot because I don’t know what the particular smell is and I just want to bury my face in it and sniff it but it isn’t enough to just walk through home depot…I feel the relentless urge to sniff it so hard the smell stays in my nose. But the tire licking thing is horribly unnerving. As I write this, I am flipping out because I can’t smell rubber.

    Also bleach, or bathtub cleaner.
    Dial Soap. (original)
    Gasoline.

    – on the other hand, I can’t stand the smell of cologne, or certain mouthwashes that my husband uses. It’s gotta be frustrating for him to never smell good to me unless he puts on a shirt fresh from the dryer…but it has to be Tide with a touch of Downy…and bounce dryer sheets.

    My cravings are strong and get me stressed and worked up because I can’t eat them. Pregnancy is so strange.

    posted by Bethany B on 8-24-2010 at 11:17 pm

  287. Oh, and I just started to take vitamins with Iron in them…OB told me to…but I am afraid that all of these cravings are bad signs…

    posted by Bethany B on 8-24-2010 at 11:39 pm

  288. With both pregnancies I craved mustard. Just the thought of a hamburger loaded with mustard made my mouth water.

    posted by Patty on 8-27-2010 at 2:11 pm

  289. With her first son, my sister craved Beefaroni Tacos. It was simple – just cook up some Beefaroni and throw it in a hard taco shell.

    She never actually made them, but to this day I wonder what they’d taste like – they don’t sound that bad.

    She also ate about a pound of bologna a day. It was ridiculous.

    posted by Rae on 8-29-2010 at 5:53 am

  290. I’m pregnant with my first and all I’ve craved for months is hot peppers… which I’m told is pretty crazy because of the heartburn that follows. I must crave the heartburn too because I’ve put them on everything. The latest thing was on a bagel with cream cheese.

    posted by Audra on 9-5-2010 at 10:35 pm

  291. My best friend craved vegetables, especially peas. She hates hates hates vegetables otherwise, she can’t even choke them down. She’d refer to it as “ANNOYING!” whenever she’d have to have a piece of vegetable. It was hilarious.

    posted by Jennifer on 9-9-2010 at 3:32 pm

  292. I also craved sponges, and would buy myself regular rectangle cleaning ones. I would get them wet and let them sit for a day or two, and then I’d bite them in the shower. I did the same thing with washclothes.

    posted by Myssi on 9-10-2010 at 7:51 pm

  293. Just found out that I’m pregnant (about 5.5 weeks), and so far have been hit with a craving for pad thai and crab rangoon. May not sound strange, but I’m usually indifferent to Thai food. And I want sour cream with beans and cheese. I really didn’t expect to have any kind of cravings this soon, but they’re powerful.

    My mom said that she craved potato chips with mustard when she was pregnant. I won’t say that I’m craving them, but it doesn’t sound all that bad to me. I may be trying them before too long.

    posted by Crissy on 9-15-2010 at 8:34 pm

  294. With my first, a son, I craved fruits and vegetables. I would eat an entire head of cabbage for a snack. 2 years later when pregnant with my daughter, I craved dirt so bad. I would buy potting soil and just smell it for hours. I eventually gave in to my craving and ate a handful of dirt, and it was not that good – LOL. Then my cravings switched to chocolate. To this day, I love the smell of dirt, but don’t really like chocolate.

    posted by Hally on 9-18-2010 at 10:23 pm

  295. P.S. I used to vomit even “seeing” a mayonaisse jar. Weird.

    posted by Hally on 9-18-2010 at 10:26 pm

  296. My cousin craved cigarette ashes…

    posted by Byers on 9-25-2010 at 11:06 am

  297. I had some pretty intense cravings with all 3 of my kids. My mom, on the other hand, didn’t crave anything while she was pregnant but could not stand the sight of certain foods.

    For my mom, while she was pregnant with me she absolutely could not be around red meat. My dad, who is a carnivore for all intensive purposes would have to sneak out after work, grab cheeseburgers at whatever local fast food restaurant he fancied. Before he was able to come near my mom he would have to shower, change his clothes, and repeatedly brush his teeth. My mom swore she could “smell it on him.”
    She also developed a severe aversion to the smell of salt-water/ the ocean. As the daughter and sister of fishing men, this was extremely strange as she practically grew up in the cabin of a charter boat. Her entire pregnancy she couldn’t be around her dad or brothers if they had been anywhere near the water before seeing her. The moment I was born however, it seems her issue disappeared. My grandaddy and three of my uncles came straight from the boat to see me after I was born and she apparently was sniffing my grandfathers shirt because she missed the smell of salt water so much.

    As for me:
    Son #1- Dill pickle brine. It HAD to be kosher dill and it was only the brine, I couldn’t tolerate the taste of the actual pickles.
    Son#2- Taco Bell Soft Shell Beef Tacos. Steak (it had to be as rare as possible). Double Bacon Cheeseburgers from Wendys. As someone who has abhorred the taste of red meat my entire life and had been meat-free for 13 years pre-pregnancy, it was such a strange feeling.
    Son#3- Bread and cheese. In any form. Crackers and cheez-wiz, tortillas and shredded cheese, and just straight hunks of cheese on wonder bread. And Sausage and Gravy on biscuits. The southern breakfast favorite. I wanted Biscuits and Gravy non-stop. My grandmother had moved in with us for a little while while her house was under construction and she made it for breakfast one morning. I begged her to make it as often as humanly possible for the rest of my pregnancy, even after she moved back into her house.

    posted by Melody on 9-27-2010 at 8:15 pm

  298. I am 20 weeks pregnant and just finished eating an arby’s melt with sour cream and extra arby’s sauce. I also can’t get enough of Sonic Jr. Cheeseburgers and Vanilla Dr Pepper.
    For the first 16 weeks, the only thing I could keep down were Cherry Slurpees and a bowl of Betty Crocker 4 Cheese Mashed Potatoes. My fiance went to the grocery store and stocked up on mashed potatoes because I’d eat a bowl a day, throw up, and want more.

    posted by LaRee on 9-27-2010 at 9:27 pm

  299. With my first child, for two weeks I craved coffee, had to have some every couple of hours. (I detest coffee, always have)

    With my oldest daughter, I craved peanut butter toast. I ate it at least 3 times a day with tea. When she was born she had a thick mass of hair, which I attribute to all the extra protein from the peanut butter. (warning, lots of peanut butter will cause heartburn)

    With my younger daughter and youngest son, both times were the same craving, potato chips and sour cream.

    posted by bluesfancy on 9-28-2010 at 12:15 am

  300. First Baby – Penuche (brown sugar fudge), LOTS of Cracker Jack and TastyKake Peanut Buttter Kandy Kakes

    Second Baby – Cajun Jambalaya Pasta from the Cheesecake Factory, Oreos, White American Cheese, and Strawberries

    Third Baby – Fried Clams and Tartar Sauce, Ben and Jerry’s Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch Ice Cream, and McDonald’s French Fries

    Fourth Baby – Crab Rangoon, Cherry Cheesecake, Vegetarian Pizza and Wendy’s Chili

    posted by Olive on 10-6-2010 at 4:56 pm

  301. With my first pregnancy, I craved Corndogs. We left for Las Vegas not long after I found out I was pregnant, and let me tell you, there was not a corndog to be found in Vegas! I would also sit on the air conditioner vent with the air blowing up my shirt (heat of the summer) and feast on a can of greenbeans, straight out of the can.

    With my second pregnancy, I craved Subway sandwiches and ice cream. Any flavor, as long as they were served together!

    posted by Tina on 10-11-2010 at 5:48 pm

  302. I’m pregnant now and I keep craving Chinese hot mustard, especially on egg rolls.

    posted by Vicki on 10-12-2010 at 12:50 am

  303. I wonder if someone can come up with a personality test based on cravings, or just likes and dislikes of food.

    posted by Susan on 10-15-2010 at 8:52 pm

  304. Though ice would have sufficed, what I really craved while pregnant was snow. Beyond that, I felt strongly drawn toward certain scents- bleach, potting soil, and car exhaust fumes.

    posted by Beth on 10-15-2010 at 10:05 pm

  305. With both of my pregnancies, it was pecan sandies, shrimp toast, and cheese blintzes. Yum!

    posted by Fabiana on 10-18-2010 at 4:55 pm

  306. I had my baby five months ago, and the things I just craved nonstop were Shake n Bake Pork Chops with a side of pastina, and Gingerman Cookies by Pepperidge Farm followed up by a BIG glass of malted milk. That’s literally what I would eat almost every day!

    posted by Rhianne on 10-19-2010 at 4:37 pm

  307. With my first child, it was cantaloupe, which aren’t very good out of season, but it didn’t matter I ate 2 or 3 of them a week from February 1 to April 1 that year.

    With my second it was raw meat. We would go out to eat and I would order steak or prime rib rare. My husband was so grossed out he would sit a menu up around my plate so he couldn’t see it

    posted by Maranda on 10-20-2010 at 4:12 pm

  308. Tchaikovsky and margarine with my first child.

    I was weepy and cranky for a couple of weeks and told my husband I had to have The Nutcracker Suite on CD NOW!!! He obliged (probably glad to get out of the house) and it worked: bad mood, banished! I listened to it constantly throughout my last trimester.

    My son is 12 now. Though not a dancer, he has enjoyed seeing the Nutcracker Ballet – and hearing the live music performance – several times.

    posted by elizabutt on 10-20-2010 at 10:54 pm

  309. My mother craved pancakes with sour cream when she was pregnant with my sister.

    posted by poeticcheese on 10-25-2010 at 7:51 am

  310. I craved “salty” limeades from a drive-in down the street. I was on a no-salt diet, which I stuck to, except when the craving hit, and then I had to have a salty limeade.

    posted by Deborah on 10-30-2010 at 7:06 pm

  311. I definitely believe that there’s a connection between what a mother craves and what their child’s favorite food is. My mom told me that all she ate during her pregancy with me is Kraft Mac-n-Cheese. To this day, she won’t touch it, but I eat it 2-3 times a week.

    posted by Cassie on 10-31-2010 at 7:57 pm

  312. I went through several periods where the only thing that would not make me sick was really cheap frozen cheese pizza (were talking under $1 type) and lemon Italian ice.

    posted by Steph on 11-2-2010 at 3:36 pm

  313. I’m 11 weeks pregnant right now with twins. One of them is like me and LOVES Mexican food. The other seems to have relocated the sweet tooth I lost when I was a teenager. I’m underweight and these kiddos are making me eat so much that I can’t move afterward!! I can eat cheese like no other. And everything has to be spicy. Then I’ll munch on candy afterward. Halloween couldn’t have come at a better time! My Husband thought I was weird the other night while eating spoonfuls of cream cheese. Are you kidding me? I used to eat it like that with my Dad when I was little!! Yumm to the extreme!!

    posted by Katie on 11-5-2010 at 1:40 pm

  314. 1st baby – frozen pineapple chunks (had to be frozen)

    2nd baby – jalapenos on everything (was not good at all for the heartburn)

    3rd baby – salad and crablegs (massive quantities of both)

    posted by R. Day on 11-9-2010 at 4:05 am

  315. My best friend craved Flamming-Hot Cheetos, green olives and beef sticks(cut in to bite size pieces). She would put all three in a bowl and pour Pepsi over the top of it. She’d eat it like cerel with a spoon and then drank all the pepsi left in the bowl when she had finished. This happened with both her pregnancies.

    posted by AshEr on 11-9-2010 at 2:38 pm

  316. With my first son, I craved watermelon and lemonade. I would go to the local farmer’s market and buy 3-4 watermelons a week. Fortunately, I was pregnant through the summer, so it was easy to get. The lemonade had to be Minute Maid and it HAD to be in the can-no bottles for me.

    With my second son, I had an intense, one time craving for Red Potato salad from Isaac’s Deli with salted cashews mixed in. I cried until my fiance (now husband) got it for me. He even sat down and ate it with me, the poor man. He puked that night, but my belly was happy. After that, I moved to chicken enchiladas. I ate those 3 times a week, easily.

    posted by Michelle on 11-15-2010 at 11:20 am

  317. Oh my goodness….throughout my entire pregnancy all I craved was Domino’s hand-tossed pizza loaded with pepperoni, sausage, ground beef, ham, onions, mushrooms and green bell peppers. THAT was the best. I ate that almost twice a week without getting sick of it throughout the entire pregnancy.

    posted by Guinevere on 11-19-2010 at 4:56 pm

  318. For both of my pregnancies, I craved both turnip greens (first trimester) and fruit (mainly oranges) in the third trimester. Many of my friends also craved fruit but I don’t think its that surprising why. During pregnancy, you can get really bad dry mouth and the fruit helps out. Yea, we could drink water but for some reason, fruit is much more appealing. I averaged about 4 oranges a day. I could have eaten more but my husband got tired of hauling home sacks of oranges from the store so I self imposed for as a limit!

    posted by Gina on 11-25-2010 at 4:36 pm

  319. With two of my pregnancies (both girls), it was whipped cream. Just straight whipped cream all the time. Didn’t matter if it was homemade or Reddi-wip.

    With my last one (a boy), it was soft serve vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles and it had to be on a wafer cone. Needless to say, I had no complaints about that craving :)

    posted by Della on 12-5-2010 at 11:40 am

  320. my mom used to talk to a lady who craved pickled granny smiths. she would take pickles out of the jar ans put sliced up apples in there instead.

    posted by Yerk on 12-6-2010 at 7:32 pm

  321. During my first pregnancy, I had an entire cupboard dedicated to Spaghetti-Os. Stacks and stacks and stacks of cans that I’d sometimes even turn to for breakfast!

    With my second son, I craved jalapeños. My “go-to food” was a chicken, cheddar, pineapple and jalapeño pizza. Naturally, I learned to keep the Tums in my purse, in the car or in my husband’s pocket!

    posted by Lucky Gal on 12-10-2010 at 10:40 pm

  322. 1st Pregnancy – Cotton candy, pepperoni pizza, chocolate covered raisins and chicken noodle soup

    2nd Pregnancy – Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes, Butterscotch Krimpets, candy canes, cherry licorice, and grilled cheese sandwiches

    3rd pregnancy – Chocolate covered pretzels, fish sticks, popcorn, blueberry pancakes, and soft serve vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles (like what someone above me said)

    4th Pregnancy (my most recent one) – Snow cones, sour gummy worms, spaghetti sauce, apple pie and pancake mix

    posted by Rosamund on 1-8-2011 at 1:00 pm

  323. I’m 23 weeks pregnant and so far I’ve craved hot dogs with mustard and onions, barbecue flavored potato chips and fried bologna sandwiches with lettuce and tomato. I wonder what I’m going to crave next or if these particular ones will continue. Either way I’m totally enjoying them. Gives me a reason to indulge a little during this fleeting time.

    posted by Shelby on 1-8-2011 at 8:01 pm

  324. Well….when I was P.G. with both of my boys it was always peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chef salad, cream of wheat and cream of rice during the first trimester, then it was cherry pie, meatloaf, garlic bagel chips, and white chocolate covered pretzels during the second trimester, and finally yellow cake with chocolate fudge frosting, lasagna, beef fajitas, and mushroom swiss burgers during the third trimester.

    In fact, it’s amazing I bounced back to my pre-pregnancy weight both times.

    posted by Marla on 1-9-2011 at 1:43 pm

  325. When my mom was pregnant with me she craved coffee grounds. I’m in my 60s and I still have jot drink coffee every day.
    When I was pregnant npwith twins, I craved chicken livers.

    posted by Bobbie on 1-13-2011 at 7:52 am

  326. Kid 1 = Pad Thai. I would have eaten it every night if given the opportunity.

    Kid 2 = Grapefruit. Tons of grapefruit! Especially during the winter months.

    posted by Parent OHX on 1-14-2011 at 8:12 pm

  327. For me, it was beef chow mein and raspberry jello with both of my kids (not mixed together though!)

    posted by Yvette on 1-15-2011 at 1:07 pm

  328. I was all about the orange creamsicles when I was pregnant… I was so desperate for some one day that at about 8 months along, I decided that the five mile hike to the store in 110 degree temperatures was a really good idea.

    posted by Megan on 1-17-2011 at 4:01 pm

  329. My first child – Strawberry milkshakes, cookies and cream ice cream, macaroni and cheese and watermelon.

    My second child – Hot fudge sundaes, salt and vinegar chips, peanut butter crackers, jelly beans and trail mix

    My third child – Rocky road ice cream, grape and cherry popsicles, s’mores and sunflower seeds

    My fourth child – Green grapes, frozen lemonade, grape soda pop (went through cans a day at times!!), and hot cocoa

    My fifth and sixth children (twins) – Chickarina Soup by Progresso, Pocky, chips with salsa, and tater tots dipped in both ketchup and yellow mustard

    posted by Lindy on 1-18-2011 at 2:23 pm

  330. Everything cold/near frozen.

    With my son it was cold Big Macs.
    With my daughter it was frigid cheesecake and pecan pie.
    Everything had to be cold, I think it was because I was hypersensitive to smells, so much that I couldn’t walk through the grocery store meat or dairy section without wanting to vomit.
    Oddest thing about both my pregnancies, the night before I went into labour with each child, I intensely craved a full ‘surf and turf’ meal. (thankfully my family obliged both times)

    posted by Carolyn on 1-20-2011 at 3:29 pm

  331. Hot bread out of the oven, with real butter and blackberries.

    My first one I needed chocolate milk and chicken noodle soup.

    posted by Amber on 1-22-2011 at 1:16 am

  332. Craving #1: Canned tomatoes. My husband would come home and find me eating an entire can with a fork.
    Craving #2: Green olives, which previously had been disgusting to me.
    Craving #3: Salt and vinegar potato chips.

    posted by Carly on 1-24-2011 at 10:20 pm

  333. Orange veggies – carrots, squash, sweet potatoes. I have no idea why, though my son loves all of these now at 10 months!

    posted by Rebecca on 1-25-2011 at 1:05 pm

  334. This time around it’s been tons of Chinese food (I’m 30 weeks along). I’m particularly craving Hunan Beef, Lobster Cantonese, Ma Po Tofu, Shrimp with Lobster Sauce and Honey Chicken with Walnuts.

    With my first pregnancy it was pretzels dipped in any flavor of ice cream, Jarlsberg Cheese and moussaka. But thankfully not all on the same plate.

    posted by Chrissa on 1-30-2011 at 5:56 pm

  335. If you eat table salt, you’re eating ‘dirt.’

    When you eat salt, you’re eating a rock, which was either mined from the ground or extracted from seawater, where it ended up after being dissolved from the earth.

    The notion of women eating dirt, or having a craving to eat dirt, is only repulsive because of a collectively held notion that the earth is ‘dirty’ and ‘dirty’ things should not be a source of food.

    But we all eat things that come from the ‘dirt’ — we have to; for example, we need salt to live.

    Mined table salt, for example, with the exception of crushing it and the public health touch of adding essential nutrient iodine, table salt is an unprocessed, perfectly natural rock that goes straight from the earth into your mouth.

    Same for many essential minerals. In raw form, users are accused of ‘eating dirt.’ Crushed into antiseptic and unrecognizable pill form, they’re called ‘mineral supplements.’

    This is no screed in support of eating potting soil. Clearly, the people who do that, research shows, are likely deficient in some important mineral, and their natural and healthful instincts are guiding them. But better to work with your doctor on an evidence-based solution to that, than going to local home improvement store.

    posted by EgoNemo on 1-31-2011 at 2:03 pm

  336. i craved vinegar…on EVERYTHING. my favorite was going to long john silvers, getting a side of coleslaw and pouring the malt vinegar on it (think cereal and milk). my husband hated it!

    posted by jdero71 on 2-2-2011 at 11:56 pm

  337. I am nine months pregnant with my 3rd child and just like with my 2nd all I want are life saver wintergreen mints. They have to be wintergreen and lifesaver brand and I have to chew them.

    posted by sleepy on 2-3-2011 at 2:11 pm

  338. I craved Waffle Crisp Cereal like a mad woman during both my pregnancies! Do you know how hard that is to find in some areas? Oh! That and Boo Berry Cereal! Too Good!

    posted by Ada on 2-7-2011 at 5:22 pm

  339. 1st trimester – Vanilla Pudding, Frosted Cheerios, Now and Later Candies, Mallo Cups, Bit O Honeys, and Toblerone chocolate bars

    2nd Trimester – Sara Lee Original Cream Cheesecake, Mars Bars, Dots, Mary Jane Candies, Chicago-style hot dogs and Chili’s Caribbean Salad with grilled chicken

    3rd Trimester – Pecan Mudslides from Dairy Queen, Good Humor Ice Cream Bars (particularly Chocolate Eclair, Toasted Almond and Strawberry Shortcake) and pizza burgers (which is a burger with tomato sauce and melted mozzarella cheese…MMMMMMM!!!)

    posted by Sylvie on 2-7-2011 at 9:39 pm

  340. This is probably not very healthy but I craved tons of CANDY!! Charleston Chews, Chunky bars, Oh Henry Bars, Zero bars, malted milk balls, Peanut Chews, Chuckles, Razzles, Whatchamacallit bars, jelly nougats, Sugar Babies, chocolate covered cherries, chocolate covered strawberries, Good and Plentys…it was like Halloween every day at my house.

    posted by Marcy on 2-8-2011 at 6:54 pm

  341. Family rumur holds that my mother had insane cravings for Tasty Kakes while she was pregnant with me. No Hostess, no twinkies, none of that… they had to be Tasty Kakes. And they specifically had to be Butterscotch Krumpets. Not cupcakes, not pies, not Koffee Kakes… Butterscotch Krumpets. And that’s all the woman ate for several weeks until her OB/Gyn made her eat other things too.

    When I was a baby/toddler, I was always told that’s why I was so sweet.

    As a teen/adult it was my excuse for being fat. :)

    posted by MarieNoire on 2-9-2011 at 12:42 pm

  342. My sister craved strawberries through her entire pregnancy. Now her son is allergic to strawberries. It’s the strangest thing. lol

    posted by Bethany on 3-16-2011 at 9:51 pm

  343. I had an enormous craving for miracle whip sandwiches on white bread with my first child. So weird.

    But I also craved spumoni ice cream, chipwiches, applesauce, malted milk, Kraft american cheese slices, and chocolate bonnets and strawberry bonnets from Carvel too. mmmmmmmmm…

    posted by Tabitha on 3-19-2011 at 12:35 pm

  344. I’m 12 weeks and craving grapes dipped in white american cheese melted with red pepper jelly. Until this week I was craving puffy cheetos and hot dogs. I hate hotdogs.

    posted by Jennifer on 3-20-2011 at 1:33 pm

  345. When I’m not pregnant, I am a vegetarian. Not for political reasons, but because I hate the taste and texture.

    Apparently, when I am pregnant, all bets are off.

    With my first, seven years ago, all I wanted was meat. Red meat, and the rarer the better. I wanted red Italian sauce, too, but it had to have meatballs or sausage or some other meat products in it.

    I’m now 8 weeks with number two and for the first time in a decade, I have had chicken. Three times in the last eight days, to be exact. I have to have chicken. I also have to have milk, yogurt, fro yo, or any other dairy. And I normally hate milk.

    I actually stumbled across this article — two years later — by running the nat language search “why am I craving chicken?” I’m ashamed and embarrassed, but cravings are like an itch you just HAVE to scratch.

    posted by ACKJA on 3-25-2011 at 10:43 pm

  346. When I was preggo with DS, I craved lots and lots of chocolate truffles, banana nut bread, creme brulee and blueberry scones.

    With DD, my cravings were eggnog, cider donuts, peppermint bark, almond toffee and ribbon candy. Good thing she was born in January!

    posted by Alexandria on 4-1-2011 at 3:57 pm

  347. Not especially weird, but I craved jello, in any flavour. I made and ate a box every day of my last trimester.

    posted by Moosie on 4-9-2011 at 9:57 pm

  348. My father’s girlfriend told me once that a friend of her’s would constantly crave drywall while she was pregnant.

    posted by Jacey on 4-19-2011 at 2:40 pm

  349. I really didn’t have any cravings when I was pregnant, but my husband craved scrambeled eggs with ketchup. To this day that is our 3 yr olds’ favorite breakfast.

    posted by Beth on 5-18-2011 at 1:03 pm

  350. stuffing!! i just have to have it

    posted by kate&squeak on 6-28-2011 at 11:25 pm

  351. Wonder Bread with Butter & Macaroni&Cheese Loaf (Lunch Meat) with Katsup.

    Redi-Whip from the bowl.

    Peanut Butter, Raw Onion and Katsup sandwiches (the bread doesn’t matter with this one).

    Cold Veggie Pizza dipped in Thousand Island Salad Dressing.

    Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup from a can with katsup and Thousand Island added to it.

    Yeah. This is fun.

    posted by callmedeb on 7-7-2011 at 5:13 pm

  352. My mother says she couldn’t get enough white grape juice with me. She’d go through a bottle a day sometimes, apparently.

    Then with my brothers it was sour things, namely lime juice. Had to be squeezed on things.

    posted by Emma on 8-2-2011 at 2:28 pm

  353. Apparently when my mom was pregnant with me she ate lots of tuna. Funny thing is now she can’t even stand the smell of it. It’s one of my favorite foods.

    posted by Austin on 8-10-2011 at 9:58 am

  354. With my first son, I wanted vegetable soup – and not with a beef broth base; it HAD to be the orange vegetable base. My husband bought a case of the beef base and wondered why I never ate it.

    With my second son, I paired green olives and lemonade. I went through at least one medium-sized jar of green olives a week.

    posted by Sophia on 8-21-2011 at 8:52 pm

  355. I had a huge craving for milk. I’d easily drink a gallon by myself in a day or two. We’d buy three or four a week knowing it’d be gone by the next grocery day. It was a little ridiculous!

    posted by Mixhelle on 8-21-2011 at 9:05 pm

  356. My mom craved chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick when she was pregnant with me.

    posted by Steve Perry on 8-21-2011 at 9:12 pm

  357. Don’t have a lot of cravings right now (too sick), but foods I normally LOVE I despise now :( Peppers, onions & peanut butter are not too be consumed. Boo!

    posted by Michelle on 8-21-2011 at 9:13 pm

  358. I craved green olives with my first child. I even drank the juice. My second child craving was for lemonhead candy and strawberry smoothies. My third child was spinach salad.

    posted by corina on 8-21-2011 at 9:14 pm

  359. My friend’s mother craved shrimp during her pregnancy. And my friend? She is allergic to shrimp.

    posted by alimae on 8-21-2011 at 9:24 pm

  360. My friend’s mom would dip pickles in maple syrup!!!

    I think I should win a onesie simply for witnessing such a gruesome act.

    posted by Mandy on 8-22-2011 at 12:10 am

  361. My cravings were strawberry filled donuts. Not weird at all. What’s weird was that I get so angry when my husband calls over the phone. I even vomit after every call. When we talk face to face, I feel ok. And I hated the song ‘My Humps’ by Black Eyed Peas. I get nauseous whenever I hear it.

    My mom oncw told me she craved yellow mangoes, but she only wants to smell not eat it.

    posted by Jane on 8-22-2011 at 3:42 am

  362. I craved meat. Thick steaks, hamburgers, anything beefy, though I usually couldn’t afford to indulge. Seventeen years later, my daughter is a vegetarian.

    I gagged on minty toothpaste. I used plain baking soda until I found cinnamon flavored toothpaste.

    posted by Jululie on 8-31-2011 at 10:47 pm

  363. I wanted fries with chili, cheese, onions, vinegar, and hot sauce. My husband thought I was crazy;he would tell the people at the restaurant where they HAD to come from that I was pregnant when ordering them for me. Until he tried them – now he gets them that way himself!
    I absolutely love Chinese food, but I couldn’t stand even the thought of it while I was pregnant both times.

    posted by heather on 9-8-2011 at 2:56 pm

  364. I craved really spicy Chinese food, and hot sauce on *everything* (any kind would do). I didn’t necessarily crave pickles, but I discovered that they tasted abnormally delicious while I was pregnant, so I ended up eating a few gallons of those over the 9 mos. Also, Tropicana Low Acid orange juice tasted like it was made by unicorns. :D

    posted by seraphale on 9-10-2011 at 10:38 am

  365. My mom craved green mangoes when she was pregnant with me. This would have been fine except for green mangoes were mostly found in her country, El Salvador and my parents lived in California. My dad had to bust a mission to some obscure grocery stores until he found them. I have a birthmark oddly enough shaped like a mango.
    When she was pregnant with my sister, she craved shrimp. My sister has a birthmark shaped like a shrimp AND she is allergic to it. Weird.

    posted by Monica on 9-10-2011 at 2:34 pm

  366. I craved all things gummy. i.e., fruit snacks, gummy bears, worms, etc… I was going through Costco size boxes of fruit snacks like water!!!

    posted by Stephanie on 9-16-2011 at 11:52 am

  367. When my mother was pregnant with me, she noshed down on liverwurst-and-butter sandwiches. So the story goes, one night she made a sandwich with The Last Piece of liverwurst in the house and settled down to enjoy. She looked away for a moment, and her cat snagged the meat and ran. She picked up her sandwich – and bit into a wad of wonderbread and liverwurst-flavored butter.

    Growing up, I’ve had an aversion to liverwurst, but I’ve always been a cat person. ;-)

    posted by GR on 9-21-2011 at 9:36 am

  368. My mom told me she ate everything that was yellow. Bananas, lemons, cheese, apparently the taste didn’t matter too much, just the yellow.

    posted by Angela on 9-28-2011 at 8:57 am

  369. I’m pregnant and I’ve been craving mustard and Red Barron’s pizza.

    posted by Afton on 10-6-2011 at 3:03 pm

  370. I craved fat when I was pregnant . . . chicken, beef, pork, whatever. I remember my husband once thanked me for making healthy skinless chicken thighs for dinner one night, not realizing that I had eaten off all of the cooked skin and fat before serving them. You’re welcome, honey!

    posted by highheeledhepkitten on 10-6-2011 at 4:45 pm

  371. My mom loved corned beef sandwiches when she was pregnant with me. My dad came home at 2 AM one time, forgot the corned beef, and she cried like there was no tomorrow. I could take or it leave it, but what’s really strange is the day I was delivered, about an hour before they went to the hospital, they stopped off at McDonald’s. I love the stuff; I can recite their menu by heart.

    I’ve never been pregnant, but for about six months a few years ago, I went crazy for this thing we have here called Yoyo, they’re these little fruit-flavored gummy circles and I would buy dozens of bags and just sit and plow through them. Very weird. Now I could take them or leave them.

    posted by Anna on 10-20-2011 at 10:25 am

  372. 2 pregnancies. Craved Oranges and saltines with both. Couldn’t even watch a Taco Bell commercial with the second – Run for the Boarder was the ad campaign at the time. My son was 6 months old before I could even smell Taco Bell without being sick! The strangest thing I craved was playing Dr. Mario on the Nintendo. I would come home from work, eat dinner, hug my daughter and husband and go in the bed room and play that game for hours. Any wonder my son (18 now) is a gaming wiz?

    posted by Carol W on 10-24-2011 at 8:01 pm

  373. I had only been pregnant for about ten days at the point, not even pregnant enough to know to take a home test, when I was overwhelmed — literally overwhelmed, and I’m among the chronically underwhelmed — by a desire for Thanksgiving dinner, roasted turkey especially, but the whole shebang, stuffing, cranberry dressing, biscuits, everything. I’d been on my feet for fifteen hours — thirteen hour shift and an hour there and back on the subway — and coming out of the train I had to have Thanksgiving dinner or I would die. Die. Drop dead from wanting it. I went to every supermarket in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, couldn’t find a turkey breast, so I got pack on the train back into Manhattan, had to go to Whole Foods to find an appropriate breast, back to Brooklyn and back to four of the six markets I’d just been to for all of the requisite fixings. I didn’t get home till ten, prepped, and started cooking at eleven. My husband was obviously confused, and we didn’t eat till three thirty that morning, but it was the best meal either of us had ever eaten. We realised why I was so desperate for turkey a few days later, but we still joke how Thanksgiving food is the most appropriate for a little girl wanted even more than the dinner.

    posted by phosda on 11-6-2011 at 2:50 pm

  374. I had a wildly inappropriate and consistent craving for appletinis. My husband and friends tried to recreate fun “mocktails” for me, but none captured that completely fake (and utterly disgusting) green apple schnapps flavor. By the time my son was born and I finally had the energy for a night out, in my mind the appletini had reached heights of gastronomic legend. When I finally had one – after over a year of craving – it was super gross. Haven’t had one since.

    posted by Kate on 11-7-2011 at 11:44 am

  375. My mother actually gave me a reverse-craving. She lived in Oakland, CA when pregnant with me, near the artichoke farms. She could get them very cheaply and ate a ton of them. They are my favorite food and I have even gone to the supermarket at 11:00 pm to satisfy my craving…. (I’ve never been pregnant tho)

    I thought it was just me, but all these stories show that there is some sort of relation between mom’s food cravings and kids likes/dislikes.

    posted by zee on 11-20-2011 at 1:10 pm

  376. Didn’t have a single craving for either of my pregnancies, BUT BOY DID I HAVE FOOD AVOIDANCE! Before I knew I was expecting I accused my husband of trying to poison me with my coffee, it was horrible I thought he forgot to rinse the pot after it was cleaned. I also loved broccoli before I became pregnant but with both babies I could not stand the smell or taste of the veggie. Giving up alcohol was easy, the smell of wine or beer was horrible.

    posted by Judy R on 11-30-2011 at 11:34 am

  377. Well I had two miscarriages with my secound pregnancy before I misscarried I craved ketchup on italian bread cheddar cheese and spanish stuffed olives . Now I crave deli fresh cut turkey yumm I’m craving it now and I’m only five weeks my fiance tried giving me the imatation I was not having it lol

    posted by jen on 12-2-2011 at 2:00 am

  378. I’m almost 7 months pregnant now and I haven’t had too many unusual cravings. I think my biggest craving has been milk. Sometimes, the craving will strike me and I will stand at my kitchen counter and drink about 4 glasses in a row. Lately, it’s been mineral water. I assume it’s because of some mineral in which I’m deficient. I also have a pretty consistent craving for Mexican food, which is interesting because….

    I have a sister-in-law who has three children. When she was pregnant with her oldest daughter, she craved Mexican food non-stop when she was pregnant and ate a crazy amount of it. Her oldest daughter is now 17 and she has evidently been a huge fan of salsa her whole life- pretty much since she had teeth and could eat.

    BTW, Jen – if it’s sliced deli meat, make sure you heat before eating it- just to be sure. It’s one of those things on the no-no list for pregnant women. Not that it has stopped me: I eat my share of seafood despite the mercury warning.

    posted by Nicole A. on 12-13-2011 at 3:14 pm

  379. Judy R- I have the same problem with spinach you have with broccoli. I usually love spinach and can’t stand iceberg lettuce, but, since I got pregnant, just the thought of spinach makes me gag. So, when I eat a salad, it has be the nutritionally-deficient iceberg for me.

    posted by Nicole A. on 12-13-2011 at 3:17 pm

  380. This is my wife and I first pregnancy and she craves cottege chesse with doritos.

    posted by Brian on 12-21-2011 at 1:58 pm

  381. So literally been picking through this article for the past two days. Got to say it was very entertaining and thanks for sharing your stories.

    posted by Zack on 12-24-2011 at 9:29 pm

  382. First pregnancy I had the worst heartburn… Literally just by breathing air. So eating food just got to be a necessity, let alone have any cravings.

    With my current pregnancy I guess just the usual half sour pickles…buy smushed in yummy crusty sourdough bread with a bunch of assorted fruit. Whether fresh or canned.

    I haven’t touched red meat or smelled or cooked with it …with the first or current. *gag*

    posted by mamayana on 1-2-2012 at 12:58 am

  383. McDs cheeseburgers and fries, ice cream (vanilla or mint choco chip), Pb&j sandwiches, chocolate milk, cupcakes, and fresh fruit-particularly firm red apples and ripe peaches.

    Hate eggs and bloody steak (has to be well done) -both of which I normally love.

    posted by dime on 1-6-2012 at 10:46 pm

  384. I’m having it rough with cravings this time. For my first it was french fries with salsa. My second pregnancy it was just sweets of every kind. But this third pregnancy has got me craving everything. It’s like once I get a smell of something I have to have it. Walking by Subway inside Walmart is a true test of will these days, the bread smells SO good. Bacon, chocolate (specifically peanut butter cups and Snickers), pizza, milk. It’s awful and overwhelming until I eat way too much of whatever it is and get over it. But I don’t want to gain a lot of weight!! It’s horrible.

    posted by a on 1-23-2012 at 5:55 pm

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