FFS, just found worms in my beautifully cooked fish! What to do?

[DorotheaPlenticlew]

Well OK, - one worm. But one is enough, y'know? I just spent 1.5 hours of precious "mummy on her own" time cooking fecking Annabel Karmel fish pie recipe, using every pan in kitchen etc in attempt to provide home-cooked meal for DS (15 months). The final step (mixing cooked flaked cod with other components of recipe) revealed a whitish-coloured worm poking out of the fish. Recoiled in horror. Have ceased operations to take advice from MNers -- pie not yet assembled.

I know that worms are not uncommon in fish and we have probably all eaten them without realizing. And I have spent near on ten quid on stuff for this recipe, and the fish was half of that. Bought yesterday from Tesco fish counter, use by today. What should I do? Are there safe worms and unsafe worms? Is it safe to eat? Would it be safe for DS? My instinct is to chuck it but it is SUCH a waste of a lot of lovely ingredients!

Not to mention the money -- receipt gone in bin of course, and do not have clubcard, but feel that by rights Tesco ought to reimburse. Unlikely though.

Oh yes, lots of worms in the veg dirt, the ones that like your gut too.

o no I was going to eat fish tomorrow (often eat salmon as it's so easy to just put in the microwave) but I thik I will not eat anything.
I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this thread!!

Thanks for all advice & links. The fish pie is cooked now, looks really lovely; and I checked every other tiny flake of the fish beforehand and it looked perfect ... so, discussed with DH and we are going to eat it. If I had found any other sign of worminess I would have chickened out (arf), but I think it was a one-off. And hey, people elsewhere in the world eat grubs with pleasure so I am going to be brave about this, dammit!

Cheesesarnie, I hate to say it but every other time I have found living creatures in food, they've been lurking in the crevices of vegetables ... even cooked. In a restaurant I once had a lovely steamed green caterpillar served up with my broccoli and very nearly failed to notice it...

I'd feed it to my family, but wouldn't mention worminess. And would probably find an excuse for not eating it myself .