to have a prawn sandwich for lunch?

[VinegarTitsOut]

Again, for the third time this week. Is there a limit to the amount of prawns you can eat?

Oh yum. If you are pregnant then "Officially" it may be on that tedious list of things to avoid, but I tended to ignore that if the prawns were from a reputable source...

They were from Sainsburys, and i'm not pg so its ok then?

I was addicted to prawns whilst pregnant with DS1 I must have ate them 3 times a day

Why would it not be ok?
Certain fish we are advised to limit due to mercury levels (I think) marlin, swordfish, tuna? (I have never eaten the first two).

Presumably they were from the fridge/freezer at Sainsburys - I only ask because there was a lady bin raiding on Wife Swap last week!!

I heard prawns are high in colestral, maybe i dreamt it. Just though there might be some WHO advise like dont eat prawns everyday because.....

I guess im thinking along the lines of the fish/mercury thing.

Waiting for someone to come along and tell me prawns are evil.

Prawns are an extremely good source of protein, yet are very low in fat and calories, making them a very healthy choice of food.

Although they have a high cholesterol content (195mg cholesterol per 100g of prawns), they are low in saturated fat, which is the fat that raises cholesterol levels in the body and is bad for you. For this reason, there is no need to avoid eating too much of them, as the cholesterol in the food is not the same as the cholesterol in one's blood.

A 4 oz (115 g) portion of shrimps contains almost half the recommended daily protein needed but only contains 112 calories and less than 1g of fat.

They also contain a lot of omega-3 fatty acids, but these fatty acids are good for you and help prevent against heart disease, circulatory diseases and many other types of illnesses.

And finally they also contains high levels of vitamin B12, zinc, iodine, phosphorous, potassium, selenium and iron and have smaller quantities of calcium, magnesium and sodium. HTH

I think they are less worried about the cholesterol thing than they used to be - something like, they have a lot in them but we now realise that it doesn't always translate to us ending up with a lot of it in our bodies.

Prawns are indeed (mostly) evil but it's an environmental issue - lots of habitats being destroyed for prawn farming, apparently. Sometimes you can smell the chlorine that they have to drench them in to keep diseases down.

COV
Did you google that or are you freakily aware of the nutritional value of prawns?

ah, x-posts with CoV who seems to actually know what she is talking about!

Prawn sandwich positively saintly.

I'm eating prawn cocktail crisps

I wouldn't worry. You'll probably want them every day for a week and then not want to eat them again for months. If you're anything like me, that is.

Which would be sadder, the fact I know the info, or that I googled it?

there are probably about 12 prawns in a snadwich - don't think you're in any danger of overdosing...

its the different between dietary cholesterol (like in eggs and prawns) = OK and cholesterol generated by our liver from saturated fats = bad.

Does the prawn sandwich have mayonnaise in it though?

The mayo you drench them in may be more relevent as to health issues.

lol at COV
are you working for the Prawn and Shrimp Marketing Board or summat?

LOL I can also tell you the difference between shrimp and prawns

Go on then COV you are desperate to tell us obviously...

I won't bore you with the details

But did you know that they start out their lives as male and end it as female?

psml. Thanks for the info. I will have no quarms about eating buckets full of prawns in future....now then, what about salmon? i also have a need to eat this every day (although i don't i limit myself to once a week) i think i may have been a mermaid in a previous life.....

Kewcumber, they will be snadwiches in my mind for ever!

On a more serious note, my dd adored prawns when she was little, and ate them a lot. Then I found out that very small children shouldn't have them because the amount of iodine is enough to affect their thyroid. Particularly if you're part of a family with thyroid problems. which dd is. So I limit her very much now - much to her annoyance!

Thats an interesting fact about prawns COV. Its as though they start off wrong, and then somehow, correct themselves.

Vinigar...they where more likely crap in a previous life.

All seafood is a form of sea floor binman, they eat dead and rotting fish, and hang out around sewage pipes. They are the 'cleaner uppers of the sea'.

LOL