Okay, I am wondering when my fellow mumsnetters let their children have unpasterised cheese, pate and rare meat

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I am not aware of any guidelines, although I do have some vaque memory of being told that they can have seafood when they are 3. My natural caution wars with my love of food, and my desire for them to be adventoruous in their tastes.

A good example is, we like our beef rare, and the dcs (2 and 4) eat it that way too. Are we endangering them?

The reason why I have suddenly thought of this, is dt2 has just grabbed and obviously enjoyed some brie. I let him do it, but was wondering if I should. It turns out that it was pasterised any way btw. Is it the case, that soft cheeses are pasterised now?

Anyway, thats enough questions, I think

Aloha, I thought we had to be careful re eating too much oily fish because of dioxins - I'm sure the FSA only recommend 2 portions per week (for girls/women who plan to get pg). Have I got it wrong?

Sweetydarling you made me laugh a lot.

Is alcohol ok because Im really missing cooking with it and have only given it a couple of times to DS aged 3 and felt a bit guilty afterwards.

Mumfun, Well, so long as you cook the alchol at a high temp you will cook off the alchol and just be left with the flavour, so I guess if your kids like it there can't be any harm in it!

I think my kids have had anything I would eat from very young - about oneish? They have no food allergies are are pretty unfussy eaters. TBH, I didn't know all this stuff about what kids should eat and when until a few years ago, so if they liked it, I gave it to them! (Am obviously not talking about chocolate, sugary drinks, cereals etc but rather stuff like seafood, unpasturised cheese etc)