Eating for two 6 Minute English

Mums-to-be often feel guilty about the food they crave in pregnancy. Georgie and Phil discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇 ❓❓❓ According to NHS recommendations, which of these foods should pregnant women NOT eat? a) chips b) oily fish c) smoked salmon [Cover: Getty Images] You can download audio and a free programme transcript here 👉 Vocabulary: ✔️(to be) eating for two - (idiom) to be pregnant ✔️go haywire - stop working properly ✔️could count (something) on one hand - used to emphasise that something does not happen very often, or that there are only a few such things ✔️binge - occasion when you do something to excess, for example eat, drink, or spend money ✔️cat-o’-nine-tails - (in the past) a whip made of nine strings used to punish prisoners; (now) means by which someone criticises themselves as a form of self-punishment or because they feel guilty ✔️give (yourself) a hard time - treat (yourself) badly by criticising or blaming yourself More 6 Minute English episodes: ⭐ Disability in music and theatre 👉 ⭐ What makes a great library? 👉 ⭐ Plastic waste eaten by enzymes 👉 ⭐ Sewing to fight period poverty 👉 ⭐ Feed your brain 👉 ⭐ Food for new mums 👉 ⭐ Fighting loneliness with soup 👉 ⭐ What is the future of work 👉 ⭐ How the language of menus matters 👉 ⭐ The psychology of greed 👉 🤩🤩🤩 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more English videos and podcast English to help you improve your English 👉 ✔️ Visit our website 👉 ✔️ Follow us on Instagram 👉 ✔️ Find us on Facebook 👉 ✔️ Join us on TikTok 👉 @bbclearningenglish We like receiving and reading your comments - please use English when you comment 😊 #learnenglish #bbclearningenglish #pregnancy #pregnant #mumtobe