A menu for mums-to-be with morning sickness

Dear parents, morning sickness makes eating quite hard for mums. Prolonged morning sickness also has a big impact on your health and wellbeing!

To ease morning sickness and the fear of eating, you can try dishes such as:

- Ginger dishes: candied ginger, ginger soup, ginger tea… are effective at easing morning sickness.

- Steamed dishes such as salt-steamed chicken, chicken steamed with mushrooms, fish steamed with lemongrass, steamed crab, steamed prawns...

- Boiled vegetables dipped in kho quet (caramelised pork fat dipping sauce) or sesame salt.

- Boiled beef shank, boiled chicken, boiled pork...

- Bun rieu (crab noodle soup), bun oc (snail noodle soup), beef pho...

- Job's tears porridge, chicken porridge, eel porridge and pork rib porridge, which are easy to eat and very nutritious.

- Dishes with sauces such as salmon in orange sauce, tofu in tomato sauce.

- Stews such as chicken stewed with ginseng, chicken stewed with herbal medicine, beef stew.

- If you have little appetite, try sour soups to your taste, such as sau (Dracontomelon) soup, tamarind soup, sour fish soup, pickled mustard greens with beef soup...

- Snack on nuts and seeds such as gourd seeds, pumpkin seeds, macadamias, walnuts, cashews…

- Try cold foods such as smoothies, chilled fruit, ice cream, yoghurt, fresh milk…

Every mum-to-be has different tastes during morning sickness, so it is hard to set a fixed menu. Avoid strong-smelling dishes and don't force yourself to eat too much at once, as this makes you even more afraid of food and can lead to psychological loss of appetite. Splitting your food into 5-7 small meals a day will help you tolerate food more easily.

References: tudu.com.vn