What do you eat?

C&J I have never had a "nice" chinese meal (even made to order) from a food court place. IME the ingredients still sit around and they're not hand made dumplings or anything either, they're usually shrivelled up and gross

Some of the Japanese places (eg St Pierres) do made to order chicken or fish dishes - you can see them cooking the meat on the hotplate while you wait......

I hate NZ food courts!

One time I went into a cafe in the food court and asked for a toasted sandwich as it was the only option I could see being pregant, apart from McDs and they said no they couldn't make one as they didn't have all the stuff out (even though it was on their menu). So I ended up at McD's anyway. How annoying. I usually just try to make the best possible choice at somewhere like McDs so at least I know it's hot and safe. I have had to sort of give in on the healthy thing a bit and just go for what I can trust. As long as you are being healthy the rest of the time if you end up having to eat fish and chips or McDs I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Salt and vinegar chip and tomato sandwiches have become my .. if everything else fails.. lunch :) Strange the things bub does to the body!

We'll I decided to try a different supermarket, went to Countdown instead of Pak n Save, and couldn't get over the variety of ready meals that don't require freezer/refrigeration and can be heated in the microwave. I've got teriyaki chicken and rice, and kings minestrone soup to try over the next couple of days.

I also discovered philidelphia cream cheese in individual tubs, enough for a bagel, and amazingly enough you get 4 tubs of cheese and 4 bagels in a bag.

Feel so much better being able to avoid McDs for the next week.

Mmmmm bagels and cream cheese. Yummy!

lol kazzam I feel much the same way, a lot of foods like sushi I don't really care for much. Not being able to have it I really want it.

I worried whether babies could get addicted to McDs in the womb, as the 1st tri the only thing I wanted was bbq bacon cheeseburgers and mcmuffins.

Havn't gone to muffin break, do you get them to heat your muffin?

I had a lot of egg/lettuce sammies when I was preg. There is a bakery down the road from my work who let me ring half an hour before my lunch break and place an order and they'd make it fresh for me cause they knew how important it was for me to have freshly made food They would also make me hot chicken rolls. Again, they would cook it for me just before I went to pick it up mmmmm
Also made myself homemade vege pizzas which were yummy, or tuna wraps and things like that. And a lot of fruit and yoghurts.
I really missed Subway (which was so hard to stay away from cause it was only a few doors down from my work so I was tempted every day) and also sushi cause I love it but it just wasn't worth the risk. My MW told me that the only 'safe' take aways are McDonalds and F&C's, mainly cause it's all deep fried and no nasty bugs can survive at the temperature the food gets fried at. I was happy with that tho, they are my fav takeaways (other than sushi and subway lol). During my first trimester - I ate a lot of double cheeseburgers and fries!!!
I found it hard sticking to 'the rules' but it's funny cause since having Isla, I haven't really gone back to eating what I did before I got UTD so if I were to get pregnant again, I wouldn't really have to change my diet at all.