Please reassure me.....

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Bought a Pret tuna sandwich this morning (8.30am)

Forgot to put it in the fridge when I got to work (NHS coronavirus chaos....)

Ate about 3 bites at 12pm before deciding maybe it wasn't a great idea. So about 3 hours out of fridge. So it wasn't warm, but not very cold...

All of my googling tells me I'm going to get very ill. Please reassure me?

I am severely emetophobic and terrified I'm going to get food poisoning

Nothing you can do now, just wait and see.

It’ll be fine.

You will be fine. I used to take tuna sandwiches to work regularly and we didn't even have a fridge.

You'll be fine - surely bacteria won't even have had time to multiply in three hours.

Most buffets have tuna sandwiches out for a good few hours.

I think you will be fine

For goodness sake, people take tuna sandwiches with them in the mornings and eat them for lunch without refrigerating them all the time.

Sorry, but you’re being ridiculous.

Chilled food is legally fine to be unrefrigerated for up to four hours www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/chilling-food-correctly-in-your-business

Non- issue really.

You'll be fine.

As long as you didn't store it on a radiator and then wipe your bum with it before eating, you'll probably be fine.

Do you have a medical condition to cause you to worry so much?

I leave leftover rice in the microwave for over 12 hours and then eat it. I also regularly eat out of date food.

Of course it will be OK. I regularly take a tuna salad to work with me and it must be out of the fridge at least 4 hours before I eat it

I really wouldn't be concerned about it.....we always have pack lunches and never put them in the fridge.
When we do buffets at the pub i believe food is allowed to be out for 2hours???

It’s completely fine. Children never refrigerate their school lunches.

This would be fine, food can go three hours without refrigeration, it’s after this point it can start to grow harmful bacteria.

You will be fine...you are talking yourself into getting ill...get a grip !!!

That will be absolutely fine. (Remembering warm soggy tuna sandwiches at school. . .)

you' be fine and thank you for a thread that does not involve COVID-19!!!

Wtf? Eat your sandwich!

You’ll be absolutely fine. I hate sandwiches/salads straight from the fridge, they have no flavour. I always just keep packed lunch in my bag/drawer at work.

@foxychox you are very welcome (although the most boring non-covid thread there is....)

Thanks to those that have been reassuring! Feeling less panicky about it now.

Can always rely on a couple to get their knickers in a twist about someone innocently asking for advice.....What happened to being kind to each other etc etc?