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Share how your tastes have changed during your pregnancy. We'll list this month's top 10 cravings here for all to see and the 'craving of the month' will receive a free cuddly Hippophant . This page is an archive of all of the cravings you've shared with us and we'll keep updating it month by month

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My strangest craving to date has been fried sliced courgettes and hot squishy *starburst sweets -together! (*formally opal-fruits) It really is a nasty concoction but strangely Moorish and comforting! There you have it!
Joanne, Surrey
My cravings are beetroot sandwich with ready salted crisps, chocolate spread & mayonnaise.
Angela, Cumbria
Chicken and mushroom pot noodle with custard and black cherry conserve. Strange but true;-) My hubby won't sit in the same room when i have it so i get a bit of peace too!
Anna, Swansea
PICALLILI AND CHOCOLATE SPREAD TOASTY COVERED IN COLD SPAGETTI HOOPS AND APPLE SAUCE SOUNDS BAD BUT IT DOES THE JOB FOR ME!!! try it????
Amanda, Kent
Smelling newly printed newspapers and magazines.
Slinder, West Midlands
My children think I am mad, chilli sauce on everything even cornflakes.
Debbie, Chiswick
Bacon and ice-cream mmmmmmmmmmmm I know it sounds wrong but I can't help it!
Sarah, Luton
Strawberry split ice lollies dipped in chicken korma and rice.
Jane, Wst Yorkshire

I'm craving bubble bath at the minute, but it has to be made into bubbles. I can't use the shops own brand...... It has to be radox, which OH isn't too pleased.....lol.

Sarah, Derbyshire
Leaves from the Privet Hedge.
Laura
Curried cabbage, salt and vinegar crisps dipped in milk, banana smothered in nutella.
Christine, Antrim
Put slices of avocado on jam and toast, you should try it, it’s yummy.
Jo, Scotland
Strawberries and cockle’s together in a bowl.
Michelle, Wales
I like sucking tea bags then opening them into my mouth. I love the taste of the tea leaves. I also like it with a bit of washing up powder to. I've had this craving on my first child, my second and now on my third. lol.
Kayley. MidGlamorgan
Apples cut in half with peanut butter with a slice of avocado pear with salt.
Sabrina, Herts.
Gherkins with lemon curd on toast or a sandwich lol. With loads of both preferably warm!
Amanda, Lancashire
Marmite on chocolate cake.
Kathryn, Buckinghamshire.
Green olives with fresh cream....
Monica, Suffolk

my craving has been raw onion and ice cream sounds bad but it is really nice i love it u should see my partners face lol x

Bumpybear, Tyne and wear
Watermelon and caramelised roasted onion and vinegar crisp sandwich but the watermelon must be in the middle of two layers of crisps, so the bread doesn't go soggy.
Rhian, South wales
My craving now don’t be sick but mine is cream cakes with pickled eggs together don’t ask why but for some reason its lovely at the moment cant see me eating it after I’ve had the baby tho.
Amber, Bucks
Gherkins dipped in chocolate spread.
Poppy
Celery with vanilla ice cream, but the ice cream has to be nearly runny.
Tash Gloucestershire
My husband bought me a coat from monsoon and the smell of it is irresistible!!! I look like a mad woman when I wear it sniffing it all the time but who cares as long as I get my fix lol!!
Angelina, Dorset
Orange milkshake with pickled onion sounds disgusting but I love it!! Looked for the recipe for the milkshake for ages!!
Danielle, West Lothian
I’m mad for Vasoline on toast
Gemma, West midlands
Prawns dipped in gravy.
M. Leigh Lancashire
Hot chips dipped cold custard!
Sharon

Chocolate melted over chicken.

Carla, South Glos
10. The smell of my bath sponge.
Tanya, Warks
I love vicks vapour rub on toast, I also like the feel of hair feels lush weird or what!
Jadey, Wiltshire
Every day I crave for my flannel. I rinse with hot water, then massage dove soap all over it, rinse a little more with hot water, then squeeze tight and enjoy chewing and sucking for half an hour-hour. I love it; sometimes I carry my flannel to people’s houses with me.
Syreeta, London
Pickled onions with strawberry cheesecake, and an unusual desire for pine disinfectant.
Jodi
Sausages with ice cream with chocolate sauce.
Caroline, East Sussex
Scented candles.
Michelle, Oxford
I have been craving vosene shampoo and ice cubes.
Sharon
My strangest craving so far hast to be chalk, I have a nibble every now and again just to keep the cravings a bay.
Tara, Bristol
A hot flannel soaked in imperial leather soap then I suck the flannel dry or if I can’t wait I actually suck on the bar of soap, especially when I touch hot water my craving gets worse.
Anne-Marie, Newham

The smell of the steam engines. But that made me want to eat bbq banana and chips with chocolate spread.

Natasha, Derbyshire
Lemonade lolly dipped in Mango pickle. Mmmmm!
Iram, London
Jelly and mustard beans and marmite mixed together yummm and I liked chewing on rubbers.
Corinne, West Midlands
The spearmint rennie tablets for indigestion and heartburn. Addicted to them and can get through a massive pack of 60 in 3-4 days.
Cara, Bedfordshire
Sausages with 'black jack' sweets, which is strange because I’m vegetarian.
Rachel, Essex.
Kiwi fruit and peanut butter sandwiches...yum!
Jessica, Kent
Chopped up pickled onions covered in chocolate spread, spread on rivita.
Natalie, Vale of Glamorgan
A square of chocolate and then a sip of vinegar from the pickled onion jar, id continues that until the chocolate or vinegar was gone! It had to be from the pickled onion jar other vinegars just weren’t doing it for me! Oh and the chocolate had to be a caramac!! Strange I no!
Bobbie, London
A packet of crisps in a bowl, drenched in vinegar until they are mushy, with lots of ketchup on them!
Laura, Cambs
Grape and Olive put together! Yum…
Alina, Leicestershire
Avocado with satsuma segments crushed on top and a bit of coarse salt sprinkled over. They are yum and I'm guessing fairly healthy too!!!
Louise, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Custard and cucumber! It’s actually quite refreshing. Cold custard of course!
Alanna, Essex
Coke mixed with tomato juice in the same cup tastes lush.
Elieen, Northamptonshire
Marmalade on Yorkshire puddings with pepper and dipped in hot gravy uuuuummmmm lovely.
Chriss
I crave anchovies followed immediately by a bite of a milky bar then a quaver... strange!!
Cat, Flintshire
Hummmm well the weirdest one I have had so far is the smell of the Argos catalogue. It smells so tasty. I've been holding back on actually eating it but it smells so good I might have to try some soon lol.
Samantha, Berkshire
Digestive biscuits with chocolate cheese mustard and marmite I usually don’t even eat mustard or marmite.
Nicola, Cornwall
I have been craving pineapple and gravy! I had to have it and it tasted so yummy!
Jessica
It’s a bit strange but I can’t stop eating cake and curry.
Rebecca, Durham
Chewing on plastic and smelling new plastic containers.
Candie, Essex
My craving is beans with added custard on toast.
Anon.
Chocolate spread and cheese toasted sandwich yummy!!.
Jules, Oxfordshire
Absolutely LOVE jelly strawberry sweets soaked in spicy curry (the curry has to be from the local chippy tho =D) My family friends and partner all think its sick but i think it tastes brilliant! don’t know how ill feel after the pregnancy though =S.
Holly-Louise, South Yorkshire
I am having the weirdest craving for eating a bath sponge (not swallowing) and rubbing my tongue on it my husband thinks its hilarious because if I don’t have a sponge I start drooling its weird because I had the same craving with my 1st pregnancy also I have cravings for toothpaste so I’m always brushing my teeth not a bad thing I suppose.
Amy, Nottinghamshire
WHEN I WAS PREGNANT WITH MY SECOND CHILD MY CRAVING WAS FOR RUBBER BANDS WITH LEMON CURD ON IT OR WASHING UP LIQUID.
Crystal, Lancashire.
Betty crocker white icing and raw cauliflower mmmm gorgeous.
Beth, Isle of Man.
Chewing my child's teething rings.
Emily, Devon
I had such a strong craving towards the end for cucumber and lime washing up liquid bubbles I would be washing up and find my head dipping down and I would lick the bubbles! I even bathed in them and I just couldn’t help licking them! it was all I thought about!
Sarah, Wiltshire
Marmite, chocolate spread and jam on toast pickled eggs and mayonnaise sandwich pickled eggs and cream gherkins and custard.
Haylee, Kent
Milk mixed with fresh lemon juice.
Momotha, London.
Mud, soil and anything gritty like plaster etc.
Emma, Devon
I have to carry a potato around to sniff it stops me feeling sick and i love the smell.
Sue, Herts.
Pickled herrings with teacake and strawberry jam. I can’t have enough of that plus seafood sticks dipped in hot mustard.
Karolina
Crabsticks and custard.
Suzanne, Cheshire
Fig banana red sauce and peanut butter sandwiches.
Amy, South Yorkshire.
My craving is disgusting - I love to smell my cat’s breath. I know its gross but I can’t help it, I am addicted. I pick her up and smell the side of her mouth - It makes most people feel sick and I can’t stop wish it could be something as simple as pickled onions!
Emmajayne, North Yorkshire.
Raw onions eaten like an apple.
Nicky
I am going daft for banana and tuna pizzas, unfortunately my pizza delivery place doesn't have banana as a choice so i have to take my own sliced banana in and they put it on!
Mairi, Angus
Chewing on rubber bands instead of chewing gum!! Love the taste and smell!!??
Nickie, Herts
Cooked cabbage covered in piping hot custard. Yummy!!
Wendy, London.
Green olives and pickled onions in a bowl with carnation milk pored over.
Victoria, Gtr Manchester
To eat coal.
Kellar, West Lothian.
pickled beetroot left in coffee for an hour or dipped in coffee its really nice at the min all my mates think it disgusting but i think its lovley also ready brek with bread and butter is nice to yum yum.
Kerry, Leicestershire
Chocolate ice cream with tinned hienz spaghetti all mixed together in the same bowl.
Stephanie
shelfish with honey and crushed ice with pickled cucumber on top, so tastey i can't get enough of it as am eating one now ( my husband thinks it's disgusting,and am using his laptop now,oops!!)
Rachel, Tyne and Wear.
i wanted cardboard, not to eat or anything, but to chew! the taste was wonderful! and i had to smell the airing cupboard every night before bed as it smelt amazing, i couldnt sleep until id smelt it!
Stephanie, Tyne and Wear.
Raw onions dipped in mustard.
Laura, Edinburgh
Mint sauce in toast and drumstick lollies dipped in mint sauce.
Juilie, Newport
a new sponge washed in imperial leather soap rinsed out and then chew it till it goes flat then dip in water so it fluffs back up and chew again.
Zoe, lancs
Cooked mushrooms in jelly I don’t mind what flavour!!
Michele, Kent.
i have really weird craving of gherkins and raspbeery and chocolate sauce with vinegar on top.
Vicky, London
my carvings are really baby i have to have crab fish sticks dipped in brown sauce and then covered in batter i cant get enough my partner hates it as the crab stick stinks out the fridge he cant wait til i have had the baby so my carvings stop. But us women are allowed to have horrible carvings were having a baby. So let us relax, put our feet up and let the men do the work.
Emma, Glos.
coal crushed and put in a sandwhich with beetroot and mayo chesse and onion with pot noodle sandwiches
Staci, West Yorkshire
PICKLED ONION CRISPS IN A BOWL COVERED IN CHOCOLATE MILK
Nikki, Aberdeenshire
My Cravings have been rice krispies with brown sauce on top I cant get enough
Vicki
Mars bars dipped in mango chutney
Catherine, Lancs
After eight mint with a pickled onion on top
C.Palmer, Tyne and Wear
My strangest craving would have to be conflakes with gravy. im so gald i dont like it any more it was more for right at the begining and sounds absolutely disgusting now
Chelsea, Middlesex
Seafoodsticks with Honey
Laura
Back rubs, foot massages, an endless supply of chocolate and control of the tv remote - ha ha the things we can put down to hormonal cravings and get away with whilst pregnant never fail to please me!!
Sam, County Durham.
i like eatting strawberry jam with chips really nice
Sibhan, Devon
Cheesy pasta with a dollop of Ben and Jerrys ice cream topped with a blob of jam and sprinkled with ice scraped from the freezer. My partner thinks it is disgusting but for me its mmmmmm!!!
Louise, Lancashire
can't get enough of creamy cornish ice cream sprinkled with kidney beans n marmite sauce..although it does give me really bad wind!
Shelly, Lincs
my strangest craving is ready salted crisps with ambrosia rice pudding
Tanya, Nottingham
my cravings are beetroot and pear sandwiches with peanut butter
Sarah, Suffolk
toasted garlic bread with marmite, melted cheese and mayo! with pepper
Kellie, Essex
love the smell of sand from the coast .I have a tub of seaside sand and keep wetting it I then take deep sniffs. It smells so fresh and refreshing. Builders sand is no substitute it doesnt have that sea weed fragrance.
Mel, South Yorkshire
Dove soap, I went through about 3 bars I would just bite a chunk of and eat it my husband starting buying different soap but I kept one in my top drawer that he did not know about
Natalea
plain crisps dipped into a pot of strawberry yoghurt.(u all should try it ) its yummy.
Michelle.
My craving was coal i could be seen crunching all the time i carried a small bag of it when i went out anywhere
Clare Gwilliam
Gherkins and Chocolate ice cream dip gherkins in ice cream then eat them!!
Susan, West Lothian
Mud & more mud!! At first I could sniff but now I eat from the garden or dip muddy potatoes in water & suck. I wake thinking of water in stones or mud. I try to just sniff mud & eat crisps for the crunch but its not the same
Charly and Phil
I can’t stay away from butterscotch angel delight with anchovies or sardines.
Michelle, Kent
I eat and crave magnesium carbonate chalk. Yes. The one used by gymnastics and rock climbers. I like eating that chalk.
Bianca, New York
I’m very partial to garlic bread dipped in raspberry ripple ice cream and it’s weird as with my other children the worst craving was for fried onions.
Tanya
Banana and mustard sandwiches.
Cristine, Essex
Smelling peoples hair. I'm constantly being caught trying to sniff someones recently washed barnet.
Sara, Basingstoke
I love Heinz spaghetti in tomato sauce on rich tea biscuits!!! YUM! Also, pickled beetroot on oat cakes is gorgeous too!
Jenifer, Antrim
Jam doughnuts with salad cream or branston pickle sometimes both.
Ellen, Devon
The taste of pebble dash off my nans house. I boil it then suck on it, weird I know!
Naomi, Clwyd
My craving is sheld soap it smells so good I will fill the bath up with hot water and let the soap melt in it then jump in put my head under the water and just drink. Sad I know but it has to be done I have even made my mum get a bar and keep it at hers.
Zoe, Warks
Forget a nice biscuit to dunk in your coffee – I’m having asparagus spears with mine- definitely and odd combination.
Katie, West Yorks
 
I am completely addicted to bath sponges- I want to smell them all the time and sometimes chew bits off. I am also rather partial to bits of chalky stone and charcoal. Oh dear
Rebecca from Cambridgeshire
My craving were the vanilla/chocolate magnum icecream and licking muddy wet clay dug from the earth or ground
Elizabeth from Lancashire
My boyfriend dan wont let me make cups of tea anymore because i cant be trusted not to put the teabags in my mouth! I also love the smell/taste of rubber and anything metalic. crazy i know
Hannah from Warwickshire
my craving for the past 3 pregnancies was eating rubber bands the smell too was great
Tracey
the small of cat food! It used to make me feel sick but I opened some the other day and really wanted to try it! (I resisted though! )
Liz Selby
my wiered craving is curry and chocolate on toast it is yummy i have to have it everyday sometimes i add gravy with brown sauce depending on my mood
Joanne from Lancashire
sawdust and rabbit food i just want to munch on but trying to resist the temptation
Rachel from Plymouth
iv got 4 kids and iv never had cravings but this time its something really wierd dove soap i wana just eat the whole bar the other day i took a bite out of it and it tasted sick but i still crave 4 it
Zulekha from Middlesex
Cheese biscuits with wipped cream and jam on or a tin of cold processed peas. Cupboard is full of them, lol!
Cheryl from Kent
My craving’s are chicken soup with rice pudding in it or biting coal
Samantha from Wales
My strangest craving is to stand by the cow shed on the farm I live and smell the dung, too scared to go in as the bull is there!
Jennie from Widecombe in the Moor
dog food but i dont actully eat it just fancy it
Gemma from Ipswich
pickled onions with melted chocolate
Pippa from Hull
on my last pregnancy it was toothpaste butties, but it couldn't be bread, it had to be white baps, hope it doesnt happen with this pregnancy, as i used to get some very strange comments
Samantha from Rhyl
Tuna and chocolate spread sandwiches!!! I've gotta have at least one a day!
Leighanne from Blyth
pea juice out of a can hot or cold yum!!!
Jolene from Ormesby
i love the feel of a piece of bath sponge in my mouth, i think this second pregnancy is definately sending me crackers!!!!
Victoria from Chester-le-Street
throughout my pregnancy my most absurd craving was playdough, i craved the smell of it and once made the mistake of trying to eat it...it tastes a lot different to how it smells!!!
Fiona from Milford Haven
The smell of christmas tinsel. I have to have some with me all the time to smell which does mean I get some strange looks at times. Also tinned tomatoes up to 3 large tins a day !!!
Sara from Northfleet
Double ended rubbers, the blue gritty end,i have to keep chewing on them,but i do spit it out!
Lucie from Redditch
My main craving was the 'smell' of RUBBER! I would hang around in Homeware stores sniffing the rubber mats. I'm sure the staff thought I was a pervert!
Kelly from Taunton
Anything and everything! Although I did suddenly begin to eat tons of fruit especially oranges and bananas! It probably explains why they are now my little girl's favourite 'snack!'
Nadia from London
My cravings were eating uncooked rice especially after meals
Sarah from Keighlay
my cravings are chicken noodles and chicken soup together and raw vegtables with tomato sauce!!
Aimee from Leeds
Ice, and more ice, i got to the point where I bought 12 icecube trays and always had a jug of cubes to crunch. I even did this at night and would refill it.
Jo from Peterborough
a lovely roast dinner and pickled onoins mmmmmmm lovely lol
Louise from Dudley
creme eggs and lemon sorbet yum yum
Louise from Irvine
Fresh bread and butter, up to 10 slices a day !!
Lucy from Leeds
All I want to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner is kiwi and cucumber. Nothing else will do!
L-J
eating a lot of chocolate and differnt flavored crisps that i dont usley eat
Claire from Manor Park

"...my cravings when I was pregnant was ice, that's all I used to eat from 2 months pregnant until about 6 months

Julie from Newton Aycliffe
"I didn't realise I was even pregnant until i got my cravings which were awfully weird!... Cherry tomatoes and Hot pepper sauce, and twiglets dipped in tomato soup! I coulden't stop!"
Claire from Swadlincote
"I'd eat anything that was pickled! pickled onions, pickled eggs even pickled onion space raider crisps!!! "
Jodie from Birmingham
"Apples, apple flavoured chewy sweets, dried apple, apple donuts, apple ice-lollies, but mainly apple juice! "
Claire from Swindon
"...could not get enough raw cabbage stalk up to a month ago. Now I can't stand cabbage, sprouts etc "
T Scott from Doncaster
"Mini tomatos from morrisons, MMMM YUMMY:) "
Jolene from Rotherham
"With Lilli I had no cravings at all but this time I cant get enough coco pops, I have 3 or 4 bowls a day. And Fruit pastilles but not the ones in the tube have to be the ones in the bag dont know why but they taste better ha ha"
Emma from Tyne and Wear
"I had a huge desire to eat sponges ( the bath variety - although car washing sponges were also tempting!!!) Oddly though, I still fancy eating them at times, even when not pregnant!"
Alex
"...to suck a sponge when having a bath and ice cubes, lots of them! my 3yr old daughter is now hooked on them!"
Vicky from Northwich
"fish fingers - a box at a time and they HAVE to be deep fried!"
Shirley from Torquay
"Peppermints. Fox's glacier mints are my favourite with supermarket cheap range a close second. I have them in my handbag, dressing gown and on the dining table. I compliment the mints with a peppermint facewash and shower gel. Yum.."
Louise Powell
"During my first pregnancy I couldnt get enough of pizza smoothered with pickled onions. Second pregnancy I didnt really have any cravings and I'm 6wks pregnant with my third child and I've been getting really upset when someone says I have to eat something other than curry!"
Lou from Rochester
"Fab ice lollies!"
Gina from Reading
"My craving was eating steak and banana on a roll which was the most bizarre thing because the last time I ate steak was when I was 12 and I'm now 25!"
Tammy from Dundee
"...at first I was eating a whole box of ice lollies a day, then baby bump decided he wanted banana sandwiches, which I usually can't stand - however I ate them right to the end of my pregnancy - now I can't stand the sight of them!"
Claire from Banbury
"...my craving has been to suck a sponge in the bath, I have about 5 baths a day just to suck the sponge..."
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