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Alfredo pasta has been the only constant craving this time around. And chocolate!

Sweets lately. Also, hamburgers. Which is SUPER weird for me. Before I got pregnant I'd had one hamburger in the last….. 5-6 years probably? I don't really like them. But now? YUMMM.

@locavore_mama: Lol so weird! Although the first trimester I was sort of off meat, and even now I'm a bit weird about chicken. But I've never been a fan of beef and just the last month or so (I'm 24 weeks now) it has sounded delicious. I've had 2 burgers in the last month!

Gummy bears. I was ravenously hungry this weekend, but all I really wanted was gummy bears. Oh and cheesy popcorn. All nutritious things!

@locavore_mama: @Mae: I've hardly been able to stomach meat at all (except for buffalo wings!). I've decided these kids are probably vegetarians.

@locavore_mama: Will do! I think the LO is a definite carnivore though. Gets it from her dad haha.

I always wonder though: Do moms crave what babies want? Or do babies learn to like what moms eat?

My mom always talks about how she never cared much either way for Mexican food before pregnant with me (wasn't as big a thing in the early 80s in their area), but once she got pregnant she couldn't eat enough of it. After pregnancy she did still love it, and I've had a life long love affair with mexican food haha

Thus far I haven't had any cravings... only aversions lol!

Duck... I don't eat red meat and I've been having a major chicken aversion and randomly duck is all I can think about. I suppose it's as close to red meat as I can get without the real deal.

Obviously this baby has a high end palette (I say this as I enjoy the chocolate pudding I decided sounded delicious at the grocery store last night)

I think I am too early for real cravings (5w4d) or aversions but I have been really enjoying spicy food (not normal for me) and really wanting juicy fruits (normal for me) and bananas. Oh and I've been dying of thirst!

@coopsmama: I told my husband one night that I was genuinely scared that our baby was going to be born with a sombrero on and it's first words would be "olé" - this was after a week straight of Mexican food.

Sweet tea! Apparently my babies love sweet tea, because I couldn't get enough of it with my first pregnancy either. I just bought decaf tea bags so I can have more and not worry about caffeine. Also, definitely loving spicy stuff. And it turns out, if there's nothing that sounds good except the mexican place that's 20 minutes away, and I get upset enough about that that I almost start crying (oh hormones, hooray), DH will drive all the way out there to get me mexican.

Oranges and more oranges!

Smoothies! I'm so lucky that I live in Australia where mangoes, strawberries and basically everything smoothie related is in season. I make almost a full blender-full of smoothie as soon as I wake up and gulp it all morning - and the past few nights I've been making a small one for after dinner too! I think i could drink my calories all day long.

Right now I'm in the phase where I can't stomach ANYTHING except the one thing I'm craving. Luckily, I have been craving a salad every day for the first half of the day, which is easy enough to get at a good salad joint near my office (and DH made them over the weekend). But after that I have a major salad aversion for the rest of the day. My evening cravings have varied--tomato soup, grilled cheese, burnt steak, spaghetti-Os... Some evenings I get no cravings and cannot eat anything and just make myself munch a few saltines and go to bed. First tri is so weird!