What you should eat:
• Food containing folic acid (green leafy vegetables, including spinach and watercress, nuts, pulses, wholegrains and fruit juice)
• Food containing iron (red meat, pulses, bread, green vegetables, fortified breakfast cereals)
• Fiber, lots of it (wholegrain bread, pasta, rice, pulses and fruit and vegetables)! It is very common for pregnant women to be constipated, so start having lots of fiber from the beginning.
• Dairy products (milk, cheese and yogurt)
What you shouldn't eat:
• Anything that isn't cooked enough. That means that your fried eggs need to be very well done (yeah, no raw yellow part), no paté (only if you do it at home not from liver and are certain that it's cooked. Most restaurants serve it raw, as well as the one you buy on the supermarket), no sushi, no undercooked meat... well, you got the idea.
• Alcohol
• Caffeine. That means also regular tea, cola drinks and energy drinks like red bull.
• Liver
• Aspartame
• Soft blue cheeses
A few links on the matter...
http://www.pregnancy-info.net/foods_to_avoid.html
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/agesandstages/pregnancy/whenyrpregnant/
http://www.nhs.uk/Planners/pregnancycareplanner/pages/Eating.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/pregnancy/Pages/healthyeating.aspx
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