worried now!..

[ditsydoll]

Had a Chinese takeaway last night with DH and just decided to delve into the left overs (chicken in blackbean with boiled rice) cold out of the fridge.

DH came in and said I shouldn't have eaten the left overs because you can get food poisoning from rice. I have to admit I honestly didn't know this and now I'm worried.

It was all refrigerated once we had finished with it and it just about left the fridge for me to scoff it down

Will I get sick or could I have hurt my baby? I'm 12 weeks pregnant

There's a thread all about re-heating here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/good_housekeeping/1607606-If-you-cant-reheat-rice

Have you ever been poisoned by rice before? I haven't.

I reckon you'll be absolutely fine, try not to worry

Oops, buggered up the link, Let's try again.

Rice is a bugger for giving food poisoning but this is because in restaurants it is cooked en masse and then kept at nice germ friendly temperature for hours on end and then reheated to a nice germ friendly temperature the next day. Rice which has been properly refrigerated and reheated is perfectly safe.

Thanks rightupmyrue but I didn't Reheat the rice I left it cold.. was wondering if that was a problem really? I know when rehearing food it has to be piping hot and its usually ok but what if you never Reheat it at all?

I didn't even really think about it, I was starving, saw tasty food and got stuck in.

If you stored it safely and ate it cold, it is pretty much the same risk as when you had it hot the day before. (IE if you were going to get food poisoning from it, you'd already be sick by now.)

I've spent years reheating rice and never once got ill from it. I very much doubt you'll get ill now. There's nothing you can do now to stop it if you are going to have food poisoning, and you'd probably have your head in the loo by now anyway!