While driving into the office last week, I was listening to some radio DJ’s talking about Jessica Simpson’s pregnancy cravings. They played an audio clip of Jessica declaring her love for Pop Tarts, Cap’n Crunch cereal and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Nothing crazy here. These are all within the confines of reason.
During my first pregnancy, I craved fresh fruit and especially peaches. Thank goodness I was pregnant during peach season! I remember my neighbor leaving me a bushel of peaches that she picked in Gaffney, SC. I devoured 6 peaches in one sitting. It was like I had been on a ship at sea for months without fresh fruit. I just couldn’t get enough.
During my second pregnancy, I craved…wait for it…wait for it…wait for it…Spaghettios. Gross, right? I had cans and cans of it in my pantry. My friend Katie was pregnant, too, and she also craved Spaghettios, which is so random, but we were glad to find someone else who loved some Spaghettios! As soon as I had my son, the craving was gone and I haven’t eaten that crap since.
Sometimes, members of the pregnancy tribe have non-food cravings. For example, my friend’s sister experienced weird cravings that would literally keep her up at night; her neighbor had a garden and grew turnips. She had never even eaten turnips but was consumed with sneaking over there, digging them up and eating them – dirt and all. She learned from her doctor that she was having “pica” cravings . “Pica” refers to the craving of substances with little or no nutritional value. Most pica cravings involve non-food substances such as dirt or chalk and can allude to a vitamin defeciency.
The “peaches and Spaghettios” phases of my pregnancies were a distant and faded memory and being reminded made me smile. Smarties, share your pregnancy cravings!
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During both my pregnancies I craved Coco Puffs and Cheetos. Ate so many I am surprised they didn’t come out orange.
The only things I craved during my pregnancy were Cheerwine (in the bottle) and Sweet Tarts. The worst part was that the Sweet Tarts I craved were the ones I remembered from childhood which were BIG… I think they came 2 or 3 in a pack and were each bigger than silver dollars but they only seem to make those in the chewy variety now.
I could not get enough of Pimento Cheese! I ate it on EVERYTHING. I also had the fresh fruit thing, but with oranges. I never ate or liked oranges until I was preggo and then I would go to Costco and get the big box of oranges and eat 5 at a sitting. Good news is that it stayed with me and I still love them!
Peanut butter captain crunch was the only thing that tasted good and that I could always keep down with both pregnancies for the first 12 weeks.
With my twins I craved everything orange: oranges, orange juice, orange jello, orange gatorade and most importantly i was introduced to the fizzy delight of orangina. who ever knew orangina existed?!
With my first pregnancy, I craved every single thing that I ate in childhood, only to be disappointed as it all tasted NASTY. It started with Twinkies, then moved on to hot dogs (disgusto) and weird stuff like that. I might have whipped open a can of spaghetti os too. But only ate one bite. Bizarro!
Ha! The memories… spagetti-Os! I actually bought some the other day thinking Cameron might like them but I haven’t been able to open them because I get nauseous just thinking about them!