Chicken Burgers, Jalepenos and Lemons

Cravings. 
If you're like me, you might go mad just at the sound of the word cravings. Yes, most pregnant women experience cravings, but when you first find out that someone is pregnant, is it necessary to pry into a her eating habits?

I'd say it's not, but I can't remember what I used to ask when I first learned someone was pregnant. For sure cravings exist, but when you're away from the fridge, the deli or even the local petrol station that stocks that pesky craving it's frustrating to be reminded of it over and over. 

Yawn... It sounds like I'm having a hormonal rant. I best stop. Apologies. 

I do have cravings though and  they are random. They are weird and most of all when you get a craving nothing satisfies you until you lick, bite, chew, swallow, consume whatever it is you've had on your brain and belly all day. 

I know some women report having just one craving, one odd thing that they did or didn't like before they fell pregnant, but for me there seems to be a real mixture of foods that satisfy. 

The first of which begins with Chicken, and to be more precise, chicken burgers. Now, if you've met me you'll know that I've been a vegetarian for a strong 11 years now (half my lifetime) and I have never, well I had never, tasted a chicken burger. That was, until, last Saturday. I woke up at about 2am and it was all I could think about, again at 7 and the same thing was on my mind. I endured a 9-6pm shift at work thinking of not much else and by 8 pm I had succumbed. I found myself in McDonalds with none other than a chicken burger- mayo and salad-complete between my hands heading to my belly. 

Since then I haven't had the chicken craving again but it scares me to think of what might happen should it return. 

The other two cravings that I've been having are Jalepenos and Lemons. I'd say I crave one as much as I do the other but its odd. I'll eat an entire jar of jalepenos and as for the lemons , I slice them up like you would an orange and eat them segment by segment. My poor baby. Goodness knows what toxic mix the little kiwi is being fed. 

-Mamma Pea x