Here is the sentence:
When Delores realized that her father had made lima beans and rice for dinner,
she __________, claimed to feel nauseous, and excused herself from the table.
The bag of stale popcorn in her room would tide her over until breakfast.
The blank needs to begin with a simple past tense verb. You chose clutched ..., which matches claimed and excused, keeping the structure parallel.
Nice work, grammar brain!