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Pragnant and cant have cheesecake [sad]

28 replies

Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 15:30

Why oh why ????
Anyone know any pregnant friendly cheesecakes?

whatabout tarte au citron??

What can i have?
And waht can i not have??

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SueW · 27/05/2007 15:31

You can have whatever you like - they are guidelines. So if it has been stored properly or you make it yourself and you know the hygiene is good, why can't you have it?

CantSleepWontSleep · 27/05/2007 15:31

Why on earth can you not have cheesecake? As long as the cheese is pasteurised, which most cheesecake cheese is, I can't see a problem.

MrsSpoon · 27/05/2007 15:31

You can make one of those no-cook cheesecakes, they have no eggs and use Philly. There is one in this month's Good Food, white choc and raspberry IIRC.

suzywong · 27/05/2007 15:33

look, there women on the other side of thechanel wolfing down unpsterised blue cheese, raw red wine and raw foie grars, it is a guideline and wholeheartedly agree if you know the hygiene is good, ie it hasn't come off the icecream van that's been doing its rounds in the midday heat with a driver who doesn't know what loo roll is, you will be OK.

enjoy it

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Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 15:34

Ooh that sounds nice. mmmm. i got told by friends etc that i couldn't have cheesecake and some other stuff.
Thats good to know, well, as long as it's stored ok like you say.
Do i check ingrediants and check its pastuerised?

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CantSleepWontSleep · 27/05/2007 15:35

Raw red wine suzy? Do you usually cook yours then, or is that just grapes?

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Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 15:35
Grin
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littlelapin · 27/05/2007 15:36

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Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 15:39

don't like either of those so i'm safe. Or liver. yuck.

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suzywong · 27/05/2007 15:43

I mean from the barrel, ie not aged, think buccolic idyl in the AUverge, work with me here

foxybrown · 27/05/2007 15:44

Can't eat cheesecake?!

I knew about mousse because of the raw eggs, but cheesecake's a new one on me!

oxocube · 27/05/2007 15:46

TBH, I ate whatever I wanted through all 3 of my pregnancies. Common sense, good hygiene, nothing on the edge of the sell by date (usually that wouldn't bother me!). I did eat blue cheese but only a little and not often, ditto pate and unpasturised goat cheese. I think its really about being sensible.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 27/05/2007 17:21

You can definetly eat shop bought cheese cakes. You can even eat blue cheese or unpasturised cheese if its cooked.

Twiglett · 27/05/2007 17:23

you can eat baked cheesecake

berolina · 27/05/2007 17:28

It's not usually the cheese in cheesecake that's the issue (mascarpone is fine, for example), it's that it sometimes contains raw eggs, which can be a salmonella rather than a listeria issue. But baked cheesecake is absolutely fine. I speak as someone who's had a fair few pieces of Starbucks white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake during her current pg.

Peachy · 27/05/2007 17:29

Made a lovely cheescake today- basic crushed (choccy) biccy / butter abse; 3 tubs philly with juice of a lime and a few tablespoons icing sugar (totaste really) beaten together; topped with chopped (English_ strawberries and drizzled with a melted bar of decent dark choc

totally pg friendly, takes under 10 minutes (plus chilling) and the family said it was lovely (coz I can't have dairy )

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Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 17:30

Jolly good.
You lot on here are so wise.

when we go to IL's for sunday dinner, they do dinner and i do dessert. was getting a bit stuck for what i could eat.

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Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 17:30

Oh Peachy that sounds yummy. Can you send me recipe???

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Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 17:32

Ah, that was kinda the recipe. I wouldn't know amounts ofr base. dont have very good culinary skills.

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Peachy · 27/05/2007 18:35

For the base, I used 2/3 of a medium sized pack of biscuits (choc digestive) and about 75g melted butter- however if the amounts don't work so well for you, just add more butter / more bashed biccys.

very therapetic too, all that bashing lol!

foxybrown · 28/05/2007 10:29

Would never of thought of using choc digestives! Yum!

NomDePlume · 28/05/2007 10:30

I use 2/3 digestives and 1/3 ginger nuts for my cheesecake base. Lovely

themildmanneredjanitor · 28/05/2007 10:31

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Imawurzel · 28/05/2007 11:44

mayonnaise.
liver. soft cheese(does that include philadelphia?)
peanuts (i have had hayfever for the past 4 yrs and been told/read that if i have peanuts baby may be peanut intolerant)
not allowed to use/spray any lavendar stuff. (i have some lavendar room fragrance, love the stuff)
Sure theres more, but cant think of them at the moment.

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Diplidophus · 28/05/2007 11:51

I have and eat the lot. Sorry unborn baby and sorry DS1 (now 2) I take the view that different countries give different advice.

I eat only eat moderate quanities of each. You would ave to eat vaste quanities of liver for it to becaome a risk.
The cahnces of catching listeria from cheease from Tesco's is minimal (hey it has't happened to me for the last 34 years...). However I wouldn't eat unpasterised cheese from a hilltop farm on a hot day in Corsica.

I wouldn't eat raw fish (unless I had puleed it squirming form the sea - but I can't say that the thought is particularly appealing.

The whole peanut thing is a hypothesis (weak IMHO) rather than proven.

I eat a healthly balanced diet (and OK, wuit a lot of crap on top). Buy my food from good sources and I never worry about it.