Cravings are funny things. When you are pregnant, you want so many funny different combinations of food. I can’t remember craving anything when I was pregnant with Phee. I do recall having a bread product in the morning to ward off the morning sickness feeling, but nothing in particular. I’d just visit the bakery before work, purchase whatever I felt like that day and be done with it.

I’ve heard of women craving odd combinations - the traditional pickles and ice cream comes to mind. That’d probably just make me feel ill! I know the sound of it does…

Funny thing is, we all have cravings regardless if we’re pregnant or not. I go through phases of chocolate cravings and have discovered if I avoid it, I don’t miss it, but if I have a little, I then want it for days.

On Friday night I went on a shopping tour. One of the stops was an Ernest Hillier store. I bought white chocolate covered red liquorice for Tony, milk chocolate covered raspberries for Tony and Phee, peppermint truffle bars for me and a bag of chocolate covered aniseed rings for eating while on the bus (it’s tiring work, this shopping gig) On Saturday morning I opened the white chocolate covered raspberry liquorice and left it in a bowl on the kitchen counter. That disappeared, so then I opened the raspberries. I don’t think there was any of those left at the end of the day.

Later than night we had a drink of warm milk, and I had some Cadbury triple decker caramel from the pantry with it. Tony had a square, maybe two. I had about 6.

I have to stop. I seem to be fine without it, but once I have a little, I want a lot, and that’s not a very good thing at all. The dieting without really dieting seems to be working; my trousers seem to be fitting better. With all the chocolate from the weekend, the opposite will begin to happen…. And I don’t want that!

Of course, the minute I think ‘no more chocolate’, then I’ll want more. I just have to ride out the cravings….

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