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Original poster

To send my toddler to nursery with takeaway curry?!

217 replies

Mooey89 · 15/05/2016 19:29

I send my 3 year old DS to nursery with lunch and tea. Usually a sandwich/something on toast and then leftovers from the night before, spaghetti bolognaise, shepherds pie etc.
Tonight DP and I are having curry (takeaway) - non spicy vegetable based.
There's bloody shitloads left over!
He eats anything and everything, loves curry when I make one, very confident he will eat it.

DP said it would be an 'epic parenting fail' to send him with it, I think it's fine as a one off...

AIBU?

OP posts:
insancerre · 15/05/2016 19:47

It's not ideal from a food hygiene point of view though

MrsJayy · 15/05/2016 19:47

I wouldnt reheat a takeaway for a toddler you dont know how long it had been lying before you got it i just wouldnt risk it

SquinkiesRule · 15/05/2016 19:49

You're not crap, send it for him I doubt an occasional curry will do him any harm, I see so many toddlers sitting in their pushchairs eating a bag of crisps. That is a load of salt, somehow I doubt it's an occasional thing.
I'd do what someone else suggested and add more veg to it.

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 15/05/2016 19:50

Fucking hell, enough with the high horses shit!

"That's pretty crap"....it's really really not....what stupidity

OP, as a one off, it's absolutely fine...yes it's high in salt but it's not everyday is it!

ipswichwitch · 15/05/2016 19:50

the odd curry is really nothing to worry about. There's salt in bread fgs. I don't use salt in cooking, so find it difficult to get worked up about an occasional bit of takeaway curry

MrsJayy · 15/05/2016 19:50

What insancerre said i never reheat take away i have done food hygene courses and it imo is not worth the risk

t1mum · 15/05/2016 19:53

Just be careful if it's a nutfree nursery. Send it over to me if you can't send it there ;)

WinterIsNeverReallyComing · 15/05/2016 19:53

I wouldn't be worried about it as a one off from a nutrition point of view, but reheating rice is a big risk food poisoning wise. Also, I'd be greedy and save it for myself Grin

XiCi · 15/05/2016 19:54

Yes it is really crap because it's leftover takeaway and from a food hygiene point of view you dont know whether reheating will make you ill. I've had food poisoning from reheated rice and it was awful. There's no way I'd risk it with my 3 year old

ChatEnOeuf · 15/05/2016 19:56

I would, but with your own rice - I wouldn't trust anyone to reheat takeaway rice.

Mrscog · 15/05/2016 19:57

I would - he isn't going to be having a whole portion, and even if it is really salty it doesn't matter as a one off. He's 3 years not 3 months!

originalmavis · 15/05/2016 19:59

If eat it myself.

Original poster
Mooey89 · 15/05/2016 20:00

Ok, I'm going to send it but with my own rice.

I don't add salt to cooking at all so I don't think that's going to be the end of the world.

OP posts:
hollie11 · 15/05/2016 20:01

Yes! Curry's always better the day after anyway. Re salt - if your child has a balanced and healthy diet don't worry about it......people get a bit ott over salt. Occasional treats are fineSmile

chanice · 15/05/2016 20:02

Wow didn't know that about rice.
I eat leftover rice out of the pan cold from the night before all the time.
What type of food poisoning does it cause?

hollie11 · 15/05/2016 20:05

Also how many 3 year olds have an occasional happy meal, ice cream, donut, etc which are high in sugar/salt.......ITS OCCASIONAL not everyday......wouldn't life be boring without the occasional curry, glass of wine, bar of chocolate, bacon sarnie......just put an apple in his with his lunch if it makes you feel better!

AndTakeYourPenguinWithYou · 15/05/2016 20:05

Bullshit re salt. It's always the ones with the least clue who are the quickest to tell you what not to do.
Its fine, send it in.

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 15/05/2016 20:05

Chanice ,rice is naaaaaasty stuff

Fratelli · 15/05/2016 20:09
Grin
To send my toddler to nursery with takeaway curry?!
GreenTomatoJam · 15/05/2016 20:10

Rice left at the wrong temperature is a risk because a fungus grows which excretes toxins (B. cereus). It becomes active above 39F, and stops again above 130F (but of course may have been excreting those toxins if it spends time below that 130 - and they're thermo-stable - re-heating won't help)

Rice either needs to be chilled fairly sharpish, or kept above 140F ideally (which is what a rice cooker does on warm)

The trouble is you have no idea what's been done to the rice before you got it, so you just don't know what your risk level is - I don't re-heat takeaway rice as a rule (although I'll happily re-heat my own, as I know how long it's been hot/warm/cold)

NationMcKinley · 15/05/2016 20:11

Oh dear God. My MIL is Indian so my lot have reheated curry at least twice a month (if I haven't scarfed the lot, that is). She's v old school and traditional so plenty of salt and ghee. The rest of the time they have food I've cooked with no salt added. I really can't see the issue.

If you've decided not to give it to him then can I have it, please? Love love love curry I married DH for his mother's cooking Blush

TwoLittleBlooms · 15/05/2016 20:15

No but only because of the salt in it.

Lasaraleen · 15/05/2016 20:15

Bacillus cereus is a bacterium rather than a fungus

Iknownuffink · 15/05/2016 20:15

Can't see why not.

AgathaMystery · 15/05/2016 20:16

Mooey you are totes not crap!! Wine