Can I eat prawns????

[quackers]

I love prawn curries, prawn cocktail, with avacado etc... and wondered if I can eat these - can't remember from last time!!

You can eat anything provided it is very well cooked and ideally served piping hot so hot curries are fine. You can eat cooked prawns but they are slightly more likely to give you food poisoning. Personally I loathe them so that wasn't a problem for me! You could certainly eat stuff you'd cooked properly at home in complete confidence

Quacker - unfortunately it is recommended that you should avoid shellfish - see details on what is and isn't safe here:
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Quackers - the advice is contradictory, it seems, although I have read that as long as shellfish is well-cooked, its fine to eat. I ate them last time and am eating them this time and have had no problems. Why don't you check with your midwife/gp if you are concerned?

Grommit, that only applies to raw or undercooked prawns. If it is in a dish, piping hot, you trust the restaurant or you've cooked yourself it's perfectly OK. For example, I at a lot of cooked goats cheese because I like it.

Thanks guys. I think I will only eat prawns if they are M and S and I cook them myself!

I popped into the ante-natal ward for a check up yesterday and was given a prawn sandwich !! It was very nice...

Wow, that sounds like a posh antenatal place!!! Think I'll go there, I don't normall get to see that until 16 weeks here!

I must have looked hungry...

Not as posh as it's sounds, only hospital food... it's a newish ward at the hospital for checking out expectant mums. I was there for 2.5 hours!!

I have eaten prwns all the way through all 3 pgs. I don't eat meat so felt seafood and fish were inportant, but I do belive risk of food poisioning is higher so should avoid unless piping hot etc. (I know more people who had food poisoning from chicken than from prawns!!)

Thanks KMS. I had a prawn sandwhich at lunchtime, Fresh! It was so yummy. I don't eat a lot of meat so its good if I can have prawns specially as I enjoy them!

I also love prawn sandwiches, but with mayonaise.I've been told mayonaise is out of bounds when your pg, does anyone know anything about this?

Mayonaise is only dodgy if it is home made, Hellmans etc is totally fine.

It's 'cos 'real' mayonnaise contains raw eggs, so best avoided in good restuarants.

Yes and M and mayonnaose is made with pasturised eggs, so even better!

That should have been M and S!!!