To Brie or not to Brie, that is the question...

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I need to make a few canapes for easter Sunday when we are having people over for lunch.

One of the ones I usually do is melba toasts topped with redcurrant jelly and thinly sliced brie.

However I am 10 weeks pregnant (will be 12 by then). Is brie really a no-no? I can't help but wonder if its more of an old wives tale but when i asked my colleague she recoiled in horror at the thought. I know I could still make them for everyone else and not have any myself, but that's just mean...

Also any other canape ideas? I always do the same:

• mini cheese and tomato tarlets
• brie as above
• smoked salmon and soft cheese squares
• pate on crostini

Any other easy and cheap canape ideas?

TIA

It is probably not worth the risk as listeria can cross the placenta. That said, I had a small nibble in my last pregnancy and me and ds survived but for a sake of a few months abstinance.....
I am really missing stilton too. :(

Brie is a miscarriage risk factor as there is a chance that you'll get salmonella from it - I have had pasturised brie during pregnancy although apparently that doesn't actually get rid of the thing that makes you ill - whoops.

To be honest I'd do something different...

isn't it just unpasteurised cheeses that are a no-no??

my last baby is 15 this year though so i am well out of date with this sort of stuff.

unpasteurised and cheeses with mold rind or veins. :)

Mini tarte flambée (thin ciabatta base topped with creme fraiche and ham/onions/mushrooms) like this?

Mushroom pate instead of liver?

Tiny chilli parmesan biscuits with a dollop of sour cream?

bruschetta? yumyum

Could you grill the toasts? I don't think there should be a problem if the brie is melted as cooking will kill the listeria.

Stilton is nhs approved in pg now, btw. Made my day to discover that

Facts on Listeria especially in relation to pregnancy:
Listeria

Granule really!!!???? OOOooo is there a link?

Killer sausage rolls- small jar of sun dried tomato pesto mixed into sausage meat and shoved into bought puff pastry, rolled up and baked.
Have caused domestics before now with wives physically pulling their husbands away from the table due to ingestion overload of these :)

also cheese and pineapple on sticks retro idea but made with squares of cooked beetroot and feta are very yum

You know pâté is out too don't you? Even non meat types? I wouldn't have it, but I couldn't cos of dh disproving eyes.

Baked mushrooms stuffed with stilton, do little button ones.
Parma ham rolled around a melon ball on a cocktail stick
About a third of a celery stick chopped with a splodge of cream cheese and drizzle of sweet chilli sauce on the end.

here you go gin. Hard blue cheeses such as stilton are safe to eat without cooking

huzzah!

Thanks a million Granule

Thanks for so many lovely ideas, i love the baked mushrooms and melon ball ideas. Looks like no pate or brie for me then, boo, but lots of other things o try instead. Thanks everyone. Although that leaflet about listeria scared the bejeesus out of me its probably a good thing to get me to take it seriously.