I miss cheese...

[misspollysdolly]

...has anyone actually brazenly eaten stilton, brie, shropshire blue (am actually salivating now...) or similar forbidden cheese during their pregnancy in spite of all the 'risks' and lived to tell the tale...? Has anyone eaten such forbidden cheese (specifically) and been very ill or had pregnancy problems as a result...?

I miss cheese. A lot. I know it's not really for long, but still.....

well, exactly - a lot of the advice is nonsense!

Lion marked eggs have been vaccinated so are safe for anybody to eat raw and not risk food poisoning (unless they are very very old). You can't get listeria from an egg (even raw and unvaccinated!) unless between cracking the shell and eating it you introduce the listeria germs to it.

So, spectacularly unlikely on a ridiculous scale if you've just soft-boiled a supermarket egg for your lunch.

I wouldn't eat bagged salad when I'm not PG. It's gross. Heavily handled and decontaminated in lots of weird ways.

That may be my own issue though.

But should you boil your bagged rocket in bleach for 3 hours?

ShowofHands - I am spraying the lettuce with Tesco's own brand bleach instead of using dressing (which is usually riddled with bacteria).

X-posts. I only eat bagged rocket. The other stuff I grow in my garden but my rocket keeps dying.

You grow eat stuff out of your garden? Have you tested the soil? It is probably dying because it is full of toximoplasis (sp?). Hth.

I have only pour bleach. Can I spray it with dettol anti-bac spray instead?

I've had toxoplasmosis so doesn't bother me in the slightest.

I'm pretty sure I've had toxoplasmis also. I just hate bagged salad.

It doesn't even taste nice.

I may have been pushing it a bit to say it's going to give you diseases, but look it's all bacteria-y: caloriecount.about.com/bagged-salad-safe-eat-b390158

Cheese isn't that gross!

Don't link to things that are going to worry me. I like bagged rocket. I now have to throw the bloody stuff away.

Bloody hell, Weasel - I had no inkling of the evils of bagged salad!

"Wash salad greens with a veggie wash surfactant to thoroughly remove remaining dirt, oils and pesticide residues (although it does not kill bacteria)."

If it gets to the point where you need a 'veggie wash surfactant' (what the hell?) to eat some lettuce it's worth rethinking bagged salad, pregnant or not.

I'm not even thinking about it in terms of pregnancy. I'm an emetophobe and just don't want to vomit.

Sorry, Showy.

It is manky though... on the plus side, salad is pretty easy to grow if you have some outdoor space (even on a window sill)

As I said a couple of posts ago, I grow all other veg in the garden but my rocket has died a death and I LOVE it so have been buying it bagged and mixing it in with the stuff that has grown successfully.

oh no! I missed that.

Sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. I'm sure it is fine really and the actually incident rate is tiny.

I bought it up because it's one of the things which isn't on the list, but I'm not keen on.

I'm just funny about being sick, always have been.

I actually don't eat half the stuff that they recommend you avoid in pregnancy so when I had dd it wasn't an issue. I genuinely don't like blue cheeses or undercooked meat and I'm not in the habit of eating shark. I'm also teetotal so I was rather happy not to have to worry about it largely. But I never knew about bagged salad. It's surprising. I might replant the last of the rocket seeds I have in my raised beds and try again. Or nip to the farmshop next week for some.

I just like rocket.

Rocket is lovely. More taste than a lot of other salad I reckon. I haven't planted up our garden yet, so still pondering what to have...

And I have always wondered about the shark advice. Not a common find in a british supermarket is it?!

Or marlin. Not sure I even know what marlin is.

I've had great success with peppers, chillis (several kinds) and radish so far this year. It's been uncommonly warm and the beds are thriving atm.

I've eaten whatever I felt like, including cheeses of all kinds, rare meat, sushi, shellfish, cured meats, runny eggs etc. etc.

I was a lot more scared strict last time, but this time I have had whatever I fancied. I hate liver and rarely eat pate anyway, but I probs would have avoided these because of the vitamin A.

jeee, listeria in fast food? thats all I can bloody stomach! i have my own table at kfc.......

this thread has made me laugh, hormones running high anyone?! ;)

May have been said as haven't had time to read the whole thread but cooking cheese is a great solution. We had baked camembert the other day and I plan to do that lots. One advantage is if there's only 2 of you you have to eat a whole one between you as there not much you can do with it once you've baked it... Yum.

I eat things like chorizo this time, and hate this runny egg embargo as I think it puts people off eggs completely and they're gorgeous. I still have the yolk runny, don't see a problem if they're lion stamped anyway.

Bizzee she practices in the Morbihan. I must admit though, the entire family nearly passed out on the spot when they heard I had not been tested for toxiplasmosis!

so nineweeks, you've haven't eaten fast food, pre-prepared food, bagged salads, any unwashed fruit or veg, coffee, tea, coke or similar, indian food, chinese food.......
how could you take so many risks? Really, I'm appalled.