How often do you eat salmon?

[Metrobaby]

I ask this question as we used to eat it at least once a week. However a few months back when they reported the scare over mercury levels, and then said it was safe again we now only eat it once a month now.

So am I being overly cautious?

We all love it (DD calls it her pink fish!!) and eat it at least once a week. Try to but good quality if poss.

metrobaby - tonigh there is a programme n about this. I think that it is in BBC 1 at 7pm and is called am 'I right to be scared ...'. Tonight they are invesigating salmon

Thanks Joanneg - I had no idea.

we also eat it at least once a week.

Wild or organic OK, I believe. The tinned stuff is wild. Must check this out, actually, as keep thinking of writing about it.

at least once a week, sometimes twice. use only wild nowadays, either tinned with pasta or smoked fillets, sometimes the normal stuff from the fishmonger. not cheap though...
there was an article in She magazine last month about how good it is for your skin.

Eat tinned (in fishcakes) quite often now thanks to MI's tip-off that it is wild. Buy organic fresh about once a fortnight and get cheaper oily fish fixes from sardines when in season.
I too will watch that programme, timely question Metrobaby!

Blu told me ages ago that you could get a bag of wild Pacific frozen salmon in Sainsburys for a very reasonable price (had just never thought of looking in the frozen bit for wild salmon!). Ever since then, we've been chomping the frozen stuff and it tastes much much nicer than the farmed (even organic farmed) orange salmon.

There has been no scare over mercury levels in salmon - wild or farmed. The issues with mercury are in the large predator fish - tuna, shark, marlin and swordfish. Some people do worry about salmon either being contaminated by environmental toxins such as dioxins, and others are more concerned about the unhealthy state of much farmed salmon, which are treated with chemicals to try and rid them of disgusting things like lice and worms, but there is no suggested restriction on eating salmon during pregnancy and mercury levels are low.

Probably about once a week on average, in one form or another. But then we probably do eat a lot of fish/seafood compared to most - we probably have fish of some description almost as often as we have meat, and when I'm food shopping it's always the fish I get first.