Bring me *insert craving here*.
Cravings are a part of pregnancy. Some women get very strong cravings that last throughout their pregnancy, others get none or very short lived cravings. Up until now choosing what to have for tea was a case of looking in the fridge, cupboards and freezer. Now it’s a bit more random.
“We haven’t got any chicken.”
“I really fancy chicken.”
“I can do spag bog.”
“CCCHHHHIIICCCKKKKEEENNNN.”
“I’m just off to ASDA, back soon”
And there began Fiona’s chicken phase. Luckily chicken is pretty healthy and available uncooked, cooked and at most restaurants. Man we ate a lot of chicken during the chicken phase. Next at the same time as the chicken phase and right through to this day came pickled onion Monster Munch crisps. We constantly have a cupboard full of these bad boys, even I have started eating them. It was here that I fully learnt the true strength of cravings.
We had run out of pickled onion Monster Munch. Fiona was pi… upset. So off I went to ASDA to get some. Ooh new packaging, 80% less fat oooooh. And 80% less flavour apparently. Fiona went mental (I’m exaggerating) and immediately wrote a complaint to Walkers 
. She eventually got a very apologetic letter, a £3 gift voucher for Walkers products and a promise it would be looked into.
Advice. The major reoccurring line in Stephen King’s Storm of the Century is “Give me what I want and I will go away”. Says it all really. One thing to watch out for is very obscure cravings. Craving things like pencil lead or coal can be a sign of a serious deficiency and should be mentioned to a health worker.
Disclaimer. Neither ADSA, Walkers or Stephen King paid me to write this blog post 
April 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
“Disclaimer. Neither ADSA, Walkers or Stephen King paid me to write this blog post” - I’m sure they didn’t
Women can be weird during pregnancy, my moms says she had to have turkey at some point when she was pregnant with me.
April 26th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Knowing myself and my family I was probably getting whiskey while still in the womb
April 27th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Turkeys is a pretty healthy craving especially as a lot of pregnant women struggle to stomach red meat. Whiskey on the other hand, not so good. Have we stumbled upon something here ? I know that anything that can enter the blood stream is passed on to the baby during pregnancy and during breast feeding. Did Megajohn and Ithryn’s mums turn them into the alchoholic turkeys they are now ?
April 29th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Apparently - my own mom had a craving for oranges when she was pregnant with me, and apples for our kid. Probably why i can’t stand the bloody things nowadays.
Interesting point about Monster Munch though - they are now no longer “monster” in size and indeed the pickled onion variety is not as pickled. I think they need rebranding to “Mini, not as satisfying as they were when i was 6, Munch”….difficult to get that into a catchy advert choon though.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Well that Med is all part of the ‘wagon wheels aint as big as they used to be thing’ !! You know like when the Midlands used to matter? Back in the industrial revolution that was m8.
Anyway, good to hear that Spud is coming on well. Be interested to see if he / she is going to be a 360 or PS3 baby - my brother has worked out how to get extra gaming time “it’s okay darling, I will take the kiddo into the lunge and rock him for a couple of hours, you go back to sleep’ . . . . and kiddo far prefers the PS3 games it seems.