An often-asked question these days is “Have you had any strange cravings?”
While I haven’t had any desires for weird combinations like pickles and ice cream, I do feel more in the mood for certain foods and beverages. But, it’s nothing so out of the ordinary that it could be defined as a “pregnancy craving” rather than simply a “Christie craving”. That being said, there have been a few must-haves and a few must-not-haves:
Cravings:
- Could eat for any meal, must have multiple times/week: Blue Fish Summer Rolls!
- Closely followed by Blue Fish‘s Sundae Roll (tempura shrimp, cream cheese, king crab meat, topped with crab stick, chili, eel and mayo sauce)
- Thai food (always been a fav but tastes even better these days)
- Fruit (grapes, all citrus, watermelon, cantaloupe, apples, any really)
- Belly-Bars (S’More to Love is my fav)
- Pirates Booty (all natural, puffed puffed rice and corn snack)
- Coconut Water (delish, chock full of calcium and minerals, more electrolytes than packaged sports drinks, more potassium than a banana)
- Starbucks Carmel Brûlée Latte (1/2-caff, soy milk, no whip)
- Fat Straws Soy Chai Bubble Tea
- Pink Berry frozen yogurt
- Taco Bell Nacho Supreme (I crave it, baby doesn’t, baby often wins)
- Sleep (and lots of it)
- Prenatal massages
- Sailing (motor off, sails up, cool breeze and warm sunshine)
Aversions:
- Plain water (tastes like metal, though I chug through as much as possible)
- Most prenatal vitamins (so far, Nestabs seem to be the only ones staying down)
- Avocados (bummer since I l-o-v-e-d them before)
- Meat of any kind (while I didn’t prefer it pre-pregnancy, I loathe the thought of it these day)
- Taco Bell Nacho Supreme (I crave it, baby doesn’t, baby often wins)
- The registry (still too overwhelming)
- Housecleaning (says a lot coming from a supreme neat freak)
