Suggestions for Bland, Calorie Dense Foods?

I had terrible morning sickness and couldn't eat anything with any acid in it. My doctor tried everything, but nothing worked.

I lived on pasta with olive oil and cheese. Fruits and vegetables were completely out. He was telling me to eat candy bars just to get the calories! At six months along, I was 102 pounds.

Good news is Mom and Baby were perfectly healthy and everything was fine. It's really a matter of figuring out what works for you, foodwise. Maybe try the pasta with cheese if you can find a cheese that doesn't bother you. This also may pass once you get to your second trimester.

Wear a swimmers nose clip........if you can't smell, you can't taste. :happy:

Losing weight isn't unknown in early pregnancy. I lost 28 lbs when i got pregnant. As long as the doctor isn't too worried, listen to your body. If it gets sick eating something, don't eat it. If it doesn't get sick, eat it!! You'll soon be complaining that your putting weight on!!

Cottage Cheese and peaches

I hated most every food when I was pregnant with my last baby for the first four months or so. I barely gained any weight and lost in the beginning. I ate a lot of Lara Bars which was the best way to get good nutrients. A lot of protein bars are pretty calorie dense. I'd suggest any of them that you can stomach.

White rice with butter and salt is wonderful. Could you add a little bit of scrambled egg and maybe some steamed veggies to make something like fried rice?

FIrst, I'd take a look at making some fresh ginger tea - getting a few unpeeled slices of ginger and letting them steep in just-boiled water until they have cooled, then strain and drink (can dilute if needed).

A lot of pregnant women tend to find this settling to the stomach and get more of an appetite if they drink this daily, or before meals, sometimes. Although bizarrely, pregnant women who have hyperemesis, who are vomiting constantly, tend to find ginger makes it worse.

Fresh mint tea does the same thing for some women.

Another thing that might help just to get food down - fake your sense of smell out. Our sense of taste is so smell dependent that if you can find a few smells you REALLY like, you can sometimes trick your body by holding up that scent to your nose as you eat, to make the food more palatable to you.


But other than that, some of it is literally just trying difference foods to try and find one you tolerate. A possibility might be to take a look at farmer's markets and get food that has had very little done to it. Food at the grocery store can (and usually does) have something on it. For produce, as an example, it can have waxes, coatings, ripening sprays, ripening gases, anti-sprouting agents, anti-fungals, pesticide residue, and organic pest control residue on it. Grains have things added or sprayed on, meats have anti-bacterials added, all sorts of fun stuff.

There is a part of our body that basically 'tests' the contents of our stomachs to see if they are safe for us - they will trigger vomiting if certain things are detected, like some of the bacteria present when we get food poisoning, for example. It's been shown that this area is tremendously more sensitive to toxins and the like in pregnant women. So the possibility that pregnant bodies might be more sensitive to chemicals on our foods is not that outside the bounds of possibility.

So...if you can find more 'pure' foods, there might be a possibility you could tolerate them more, too, potentially.

Otherwise, I'd just make sure you get your vitamins, and try to get as many calories as possible with what foods you can tolerate. Good luck and hope the pregnancy goes smoothly!