Okay mamas, let’s talk PREGNANCY SNACKS and those wild cravings! When I was pregnant with my second, I once sent my husband to three different grocery stores at 9:30 PM to find a specific brand of chocolate-covered pretzels. The pregnancy snack struggle is REAL!
While I’m all about honoring those intense pregnancy cravings (seriously, sometimes you just NEED that ice cream), I learned the hard way that loading up on sugary pregnancy snacks left me feeling like I’d been hit by a truck an hour later. Not ideal when you’re already growing an entire human!
Here are some sweet easy pregnancy snacks that have saved me and my pregnant friends from both the sugar crashes AND the “why did I eat that entire package of Oreos?” guilt spiral:
1. Yogurt with Nuts & Honey – The Perfect Pregnancy Snack
This was my pregnancy snack MVP during my first trimester when nothing else would stay down!
Greek yogurt delivers that calcium your little bone-builder needs, while the probiotics helped tame my pregnancy bloat (and trust me, I needed all the help I could get in that department). Throw on some almonds for a satisfying crunch and a drizzle of honey, and it feels like a dessert pregnancy snack without the crazy blood sugar rollercoaster.
Real talk: Keep this pregnancy snack in the fridge at work for when Karen from accounting brings in donuts and you need something to distract yourself!
2. Fresh Fruit – Nature’s Pregnancy Snacks!
I remember standing at my kitchen counter at 32 weeks pregnant, juice running down my chin as I devoured the juiciest watermelon of my life. Pure pregnancy snack bliss!
Fruits are basically designed to be healthy pregnancy snacks – they help with hydration (goodbye, swollen ankles!), they’re loaded with fiber (constipation, we meet again), and they actually taste BETTER when you’re pregnant thanks to those enhanced taste buds.
My pregnancy power fruit snacks:
- Bananas for those middle-of-the-night leg cramps (OUCH)
- Berries when I needed an antioxidant boost
- Apples with cinnamon when I wanted a pregnancy snack that felt like pie
- Frozen grapes when I was literally melting in my third trimester summer
3. Dark Chocolate – The Guilt-Free Pregnancy Snack!
Let’s be honest – sometimes a pregnant girl just needs chocolate. With my first pregnancy, I kept a stash of dark chocolate pregnancy snacks in my nightstand for emergency hormonal situations!
The good news? Dark chocolate (70%+ cacao) actually contains iron and magnesium, which helped with my energy levels when I could barely keep my eyes open past 7 PM. Plus, it genuinely boosted my mood on those days when I cried because my husband loaded the dishwasher “wrong.”
Confession: I once ate a small square of my dark chocolate pregnancy snack before my glucose test to calm my nerves. Don’t be like me. Just don’t.
4. Pregnancy-Friendly Smoothies – Liquid Pregnancy Snacks
These were my lifesaver pregnancy snacks during morning sickness that definitely wasn’t just confined to mornings!
I could customize these pregnancy snacks based on whatever weird aversions I was having that week, and they were gentle on my stomach when nothing else worked. Plus, they took 30 seconds to make when I had zero energy to cook.
My go-to pregnancy smoothie snack recipe:
- 1 banana (for potassium and to prevent those middle-of-the-night charley horses)
- ½ cup Greek yogurt (protein that didn’t make me gag)
- Handful of berries (because scurvy isn’t on my pregnancy bucket list)
- ½ cup almond milk (regular milk made me queasy)
- 1 tbsp chia seeds (for when I needed help in the bathroom department… you know what I mean)
5. Nut Butter with Apple or Banana Slices – The Classic Pregnancy Snack
This was my 3 PM office pregnancy snack that kept me from face-planting into my keyboard during pregnancy fatigue!
The protein and healthy fats in nut butters kept me full for more than 5 minutes (unlike those cookies from the break room). I’d slice up an apple, smear it with almond butter, sprinkle some cinnamon, and suddenly I felt like a proper adult instead of a hangry pregnant monster.
Mom hack: Pre-slice apples on Sunday evening so you have grab-and-go pregnancy snacks all week when you’re running late (which is always).
6. Cottage Cheese with Honey & Berries – The Underrated Pregnancy Snack
I know, I know – cottage cheese texture can be a bit much during pregnancy. I couldn’t look at it during my first trimester, but by month 7, this became my nighttime pregnancy snack obsession!
It’s packed with protein and calcium, which my midwife was always reminding me to eat more of. A drizzle of honey transformed it from “diet food” to a pregnancy snack I actually looked forward to.
Truth time: If you absolutely can’t with the texture, blend it smooth first. Game changer pregnancy snack!
7. Chia Seed Pudding – The Fancy Pregnancy Snack
This looks Instagram-worthy but requires approximately zero cooking skills – perfect for pregnancy brain days!
The omega-3s in this pregnancy snack are amazing for baby’s developing brain, and the fiber… well, let’s just say constipation and pregnancy go together like pickles and ice cream. Enough said.
I made this pregnancy snack before bed and had breakfast ready for my morning dash to the bathroom (thank you, tiny human on my bladder).
8. Frozen Yogurt Bark – The Cooling Pregnancy Snack
My third trimester was in August, and I swear I had the internal body temperature of the sun. This cool pregnancy snack saved my sanity!
It’s like having ice cream, but without the sugar crash that had me napping face-down on my desk. Plus, making a batch meant I had pregnancy snacks ready for those moments when hunger struck with the fury of a thousand hangry pregnant women.
9. No-Bake Energy Bites – The Perfect On-The-Go Pregnancy Snack
These little pregnancy snack lifesavers got me through my last month when bending over to use the oven felt like an Olympic sport!
They’re filling, tasty, and I could make these pregnancy snacks while half-asleep. I kept them in the fridge and grabbed two every morning to throw in my purse for emergency pregnancy snacking.
Between us: These pregnancy snacks are also perfect for labor bags and those 3 AM newborn feeding sessions when you’re suddenly starving!
10. Dried Fruit with Nuts – Purse-Worthy Pregnancy Snacks
I learned the hard way never to leave the house without pregnancy snacks. One time I got stuck in traffic and nearly ate my steering wheel!
A little baggie of dried apricots and almonds as a pregnancy snack saved my relationship more than once when my blood sugar dropped and I turned into the pregnant version of the Hulk.
Just a friendly warning: too many dried fruits in your pregnancy snacks can, um, really get things moving… if you know what I mean. Proceed with caution if you’re heading to an important meeting!
Remember mamas, growing a human is HARD WORK! Some days you’ll be all about those kale smoothie pregnancy snacks, and other days you’ll eat half a chocolate cake. Both are totally fine. The trick is finding those sweet pregnancy snacks that satisfy the craving without the crash.
Find more ideas for healthy and easy pregnancy snacks. And let me know what weird pregnancy snacks did you crave? Drop a comment below – I need to know I’m not the only one who ate pickle juice popsicles as a pregnancy snack! 💕
