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I'm making honey mustard chicken and greek potatoes tonight. My nausea is only mild though, combined oddly with a raging appetite. Maybe breaded chicken tenders with a simple sauce? Marinara or honey mustard, etc.

Honestly? I just stock up on frozen stuff and cook dinner at weird times of the day when I feel like I can swing it. I figure it's a relatively short period of time and evening is the worst time of day for me so it just is what it is.

My first trimester cooking was a lot of simple pasta and for some reason I cooked/ate a metric ton of potato-leek soup.

The only thing I made this past week that sounded appetizing was tostadas. Every other night we ate out. I cannot stomach much right now and I always feel the worst after dinner. I've been loading up mostly on carbs, but even things like simple pastas with sauce don't sound appetizing.

My kid ate so many chicken nuggets and Mac and cheese during the first trimester! And lots of breakfast for dinner (bagels, eggs, frozen waffles).

I had this so bad when I was pregnant with DS. Mostly I just tried to not look at the food and to breathe with my face turned away while I cooked. Not the best solution, but you do what you've got to do.

Lucky me, when I was pregnant with DD, DS was going through an awful and very long sleep-fighting phase, so DH was left to fix lunch for us both while I tried to put the kid to bed. Whew!

Nope! We ate lots of PB&J during the first trimester. Easy things for the kids that I wouldn't have to cook, like hummus and yogurt and sandwiches. DH just had to deal or cook most of the time. He bought his lunch while at work so at least he got one "good" meal a day.

Plan for cold/odorless meals.

Keep starches pre-cooked in the fridge. Cook a batch of rice. Boil a box of pasta. Rinse the pasta in cold water, drain well, and toss with olive oil. That will keep in the fridge during the week. And a package of tortillas.

Plan for easy frozen veggies. Mixed vegetables, chopped frozen spinach, and corn. Supplement with easy cold veggies like salad mix, baby carrots, cucumber slices, and cherry tomatoes.

Buy ready made proteins. Rotisserie chicken, hummus, frozen meatballs, ham, cooked bacon bits. Also keep Greek yogurt and some eggs on hand.

Keep dairy on hand - shredded cheese, butter, sour cream, parmesan, string cheese.

Buy lots of fresh fruit.

Based on that you can make:

- Chicken, plain, or refried bean quesadillas with steamed corn, salsa, sour cream. Serve with some fresh fruit, chips and guac if you like.

- Pasta (with butter and parm or marinara). Cook meatballs separately in a small pot of boiling water and serve them on the side so you don't have to eat them if they gross you out. Serve with a green salad.

- Fried rice. Add in frozen mixed veggies, chopped meat of some kind (or use the bacon bits if you can't stomach touching meat) and scramble an egg or two into it. Serve with fruit.

- Picnic night. Lay out raw veggies, pita bread, hummus, cheese cubes, some lunch meat if people want it, ranch dressing, crackers, whatever. Serve with fruit smoothies made with Greek yogurt and frozen spinach.

That's 4 meals, then you can have take-out pizza and salad one night, go out to dinner one night, and do leftovers one night.

Keep a stash of corn dogs and chicken nuggets and serve that with yogurt/spinach/fruit smoothies and baby carrots as an emergency meal. And keep some Hot Pockets or something for your DH and make him deal.

What if you keep a mint or a ginger candy in your mouth?

@matador84: I can't even enter our kitchen most days. When I do have to feed DD it's usually I puke then quickly give her cereal or yogurt. DH does all the cooking and often leaves lunches and breakfast out for us ready made.