10 Delicious and Easy Snacks for Pregnancy -

These 10 delicious and easy snacks for pregnancy balance blood sugar, help you feel satiated and are super simple to make.

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Pregnancy is a beautiful, hard, sacred nine months.

One thing that can be difficult is having the motivation to eat healthy food, especially snacks.

Many women nail the meal department, but snacks? It’s often the easiest quick fix: packet of chips, chocolate bar, sugary yoghurt cup, lollies.

I’m not saying that this is bad.

In my four pregnancies, I lived on burgers and pasta for the first trimester – so no judging over here.

However, you want to try your best to eat balanced food all round and that’s why I am listing these 10 snack options that will balance blood sugar and satiate you at the same time.

What I will cover in the post

Ideal foods to eat in each trimester of pregnancy
What foods to reduce in pregnancy
10 Delicious and Easy Snacks for Pregnancy

Ideal Foods to Eat in Each Trimester of Pregnancy

Each trimester of pregnancy offers a unique composition of nutrients your baby requires.

If you want to learn more in depth, my e-book Your Holistic Guide to Pregnancy Nutrition is your go-to for all things pregnancy nutrition.

But if you just want a brief, here are foods you want to focus on in the first, second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

Focus on these foods in the first trimester of pregnancy:

Organ meats (capsule form is fine too).
Strawberries
Leafy greens
Low-mercury fish
Eggs

Focus on these foods in the second trimester of pregnancy:

Nuts
Organ meats
Red meat
Yoghurt
Cheese
Cooked lentils

Focus on these foods in the third trimester of pregnancy:

Kefir
Low-mercury fish
Milk
Sauerkraut
Cheese

What Foods to Reduce in Pregnancy

We have spoken about foods to eat more of in each trimester of pregnancy.

Now let’s focus on foods that we should reduce in pregnancy, for the health of our baby and the safety and wellbeing of our own body.

Foods you want to reduce with caution in pregnancy (apart from the obvious like alcohol):

Caffeine
Refined sugar
Refined carbohydrates (white bread, white pasta)
Energy drinks
Fruit with high pesticide spray (learn more here).
Foods with artificial sweeteners, colours or flavours.

Many of these foods will spike blood sugar and have very low nutrient-value (if at all!).

When it comes to caffeine, one cup of coffee/black tea is safe. But please err with caution if you drink more than that and always consult your doctor about such things.

10 Delicious and Easy Snacks for Pregnancy

These snacks are delicious, help to balance blood sugar and satiate hunger. So they are perfect for a pick-me-up snack!

If you want to eat healthy snacks in your pregnancy, I suggest batch-prepping a bunch of them at the beginning of each week, so that you can easily grab them on the go.