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Honestly, I just did what I had to to get through first tri. I was told to try and get a serving of protein in at each meal/snack - so I ate a lot of cheese cubes, pepperoni sticks, almonds - basically anything that sounded remotely good.
Burgers are an excellent source of protein, haha. If that's what sounds good...go for it. Have one with tomato and lettuce - you'll get your veggies, too!

I usually eat a pretty balanced diet but all I could stomach was junk and carbs in the first trimester. Don't beat yourself up over it! Now in the third trimester I'm craving healthy foods like veggies and fruit, so I guess I'm making up for the 1st trimester.

For me, first trimester was all about plain pasta with butter, white rice and crackers. By the second trimester I was craving fruit and salads and it was basically all I ate.

The only healthy food I've wanted in the first tri is avocados so that might be worth a try. I usually have just made avocado toast for a snack and it was yummy.

I could SOMETIMES eat citrus fruit and smoothies in the first tri. But even that was rare. The most veggies I was getting was on top of pizza...And my diet normally consists mostly of fruits/veggies.

I had major food/smell aversions during the first tri. I would have been perfectly content not eating & didn’t have an appetite anyway! My normal diet pre-pregnancy included a lot of veggies and not a ton of meat, but that went out the window starting at 6 weeks.
Things that worked for me:
Baked potatoes – carbs but at least minerals & vitamins too. Added sour cream for some calories & calcium.
Hamburgers – I skipped mayo & cheese, but added avocados & tomatoes
Fruit & yogurt – for some reason I LOVED canned peaches & pears. Not the best but better than nothing.

I did find that most of my issues with food came from the smell of cooking it. So I pretty much resorted to take-out or cold items so that I wouldn’t get grossed out during the cooking/prep process. Realizing that was a huge help & still is. I’m almost in my third tri and still can’t eat cooked veggies!

My first trimester diet was completely random. I was generally able to eat mac and cheese, which I tried to convince myself was marginally healthy since the cheese had calcium. I could occasionally eat it with peas thrown in, so that's a few veggies there. I also usually (not always) tolerated pizza. I generally did okay with an organic spinach frozen pizza from Trader Joe's...which again I reasoned was better than a diet of all crackers.

Otherwise I pretty much was unable to eat veggies all first tri, and am only now at 17 weeks reincorporating them into my diet. If you can tolerate V8 juice, you could try that.