Will she get sick from eating this and AIBU for being a little pissed off?

Unbelievably stupid of them to have given it to her raw, can't they read? I'd be livid if this had happened to any of my children.

"Cook for 18 minutes" is not simply warming a pre-cooked product up, it does actually need cooking. If it was fully cooked it would say you could eat it as it was or heat it up.

Why would they think they didn’t need to be cooked omg.. I’d be concerned. Not specifically about this but about their abilities to take care of her in general.

That's a cooked product that you are meant to reheat. It is not raw chicken so doubtful it will cause any problems.

But that didn’t answer the question…

I'm afraid as it's 6pm on a Sunday I won't be able to get a photo to show you what I mean about 'one long endless shelf'.

This exact pack of chicken or chicken that looks like it is next to pasties and ready to eat food in your store?
Supermarkets aren’t allowed to put raw meat next to cooked meat/food due to cross contamination

I’ll be honest, I find it surprising too.

I’m autistic and I have two autistic DC, one with high needs.

Texture and differences are typically a huge deal for autistic people. The texture of raw chicken would be revolting and very, very different to cooked chicken. I’m really surprised that an autistic child managed to munch through a whole fillet.

I’m wondering therefore if maybe she didn’t eat as much as OP thinks?

Maybe her DD ate a mouthful and threw the rest of the fillet away but didn’t want to say for fear of getting in trouble? Some autistic DC worry excessively about getting in trouble, even though the person wouldn’t actually be cross.

All of that aside, absolutely she should have been watched more closely.

If her needs are significant enough that she could eat raw chicken and not realise, she shouldn’t have unsupervised access to food.

It sounds as if she has escaped any ill effects but I’d be really cross she wasn’t properly watched.

How is she feeling now Op?

I did that myself once many years ago, just ate a tiny bit when I realised it was raw, and I had no ill effects.

Why can’t she get food out of her own fridge? That’s an odd rule to have for a child in your house.

I’m in the US otherwise I would do this. Can someone pop to Aldie - get this exact product and cut it open for us to see?

They're next to each other in mine.

My nephew did something similar when he was younger, he assumed the breaded chicken was ready to eat! Luckily he didn’t eat them all and he wasn’t sick thankfully!

hopefully your DD is the same!

God don’t be so ridiculous .

I mean she is a disabled child, but if you want to question her judgement…

its obviously the adults fault not the child. I’m struggling to believe anyone wouldn’t actually eat raw chicken after the first mouthful though surely it’s just inedible?

Oh no! That was highly irresponsible of your relatives to be honest. The risk of getting food poisoning from eating totally raw chicken is very significant. I don’t want to scare you, but I once got very ill from mixing up my utensils when preparing a chicken dish. It started within a few hours, and it’s the worst illness I’ve ever experienced. Thankfully it did self-resolve within a few days, but for vulnerable people it can be very serious. You really can’t be too careful with chicken. So I’d prepare for the worst, but fingers crossed if nothing’s happened yet she might be lucky and get away with it. Really hope she’s OK OP 🤞🏼

The ones in Aldi next to Cornish pasties etc are the bits of chicken that are ready to eat, this pack of chicken is from the raw meat section

It clearly says cook for 18 minutes , this is not an Aldi problem

Ahhh ok yes I did just google it can vary ! Hope she b ok X

as an aside - I would also complain to aldi - other raw foods which can be mistaken for cooked foods are clearly marked on the front they have raw meat in them.

I have ocd contamination so I know about raw chicken!

My understanding is that you don't automatically get sick from eating raw chicken - its only if the chicken was infected with the bacteria (I think its salmonella?) than do you get sick.

I find that homeopathic remedy arsen's alba brilliant for accidentally eating raw meat - it was recommended to me by the pharmacist when my son was 2 years old (boots used to sell it). I accidentally ate raw pork on a holiday and within the hour had developed a high temperature...took the pills and within another hour was OK again.

My God. Some of these comments!! Of course they need cooking!

I would be very pissed off. I hope she’s ok

I've been replying to your posts because you made them, and they were nonsense. Not because I "thought you were someone else".
They are still nonsense, and everything I said to them was perfectly justified.
Never mind. We'll get you a special medal for not knowing what raw chicken looks like.

No, as you are all those things. However a quick check of the thread will show you that you have jumped on me berating me for pages because- it turns out- you thought I was someone else. However from my point of view it moved a normal Sunday afternoon conversation into a suffocating, aggressive unpleasant targeted exchange.