Can we make a list of foods to avoid in pregnancy?

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I've always avoided the obvious ones (liver, soft cheese) but there now seem to be so many others that the midwife hasn't told me about. Without scaremongering it would be interesting (for me at any rate) to compile a list of dodgy foods. Please feel free to correct if misinformed!

Soft cheese
liver
peanuts (if risk of allergy)
unpasteurised food
Mr Whippy Ice Cream
parma ham - what about reg ham or smoked salmon??
pre washed bags of salad
sushi
pate
uncooked meat
soft eggs
seafood?
tuna? - because of the mercury.

Please, please correct if any of these are wrong and please add others I've forgotton.

Also, if you can think of anything I can est please let me know.

smoked salmon is fine to eat when pg

a large doner with chilli sauce or a donkey burger from one of those cowboys in next to the tube when you're on your way home from a night on the lash.

I thought soft cheese was OK - things like Philedelphia I lived on. Isn't it just cheeses like Brie that you need to avoid?

re-soft cheese-philedelphia is ok

Think you are fine for soft cheese if you mean philadelphia type. Its the ripened soft cheeses such as brie that you need to be careful of due to a miniscule chance of it being infected with listeria.

Must confess I ate what I wanted during pregnancy as I assessed the risk and decided to go for it (apparently if you buy your prawns and soft cheeses from the pre-packed section (not deli) the chances of contracting listeria almost don't exist). It is all down to how comfortable you are with it though.

So basically, you can eat plum tomatos on toast and that's your lot lady!

Can I just ask - I'm sure it was your thread asking for flowering trees wasn't it?

..Are you pregnant???

Blimey - where did all those posts come from?

PMSL at SW's donkey burger after a night on the lash

Squarer - yes, it was. we bought an apple tree and it's flowering now (and looking beautiful) and hopefully we will have apples this autumn. I am pg again . Because of the mc it has made me a little more paranoid this time about food risks.
I have been eating philadelphia and smoked salmon bagels though.

I was thinking you might want to be ultra careful if you were....

Congratulations! I'm really happy for you

my midwife told me not to eat smoked salmon...

any feckin thing that's tasty.

what the hell is supposed to be wrong with smoked salmon?

ps - you can eat pasteurised soft cheese (so most supermarket brie, but not scrummy brie from the deli), and any hard cheese.

Do the French get told not to eat Brie etc? Or are they asssumed to be immune to listeria due to eating brie all their life and having already caught it at some point prior to PG?

mmmm large doner.

I was about to post that the french probably get told to avoid brie but ignore the advice.

but I won't say that because it would be nasty national stereotyping. and i would have said it about the spanish before I lived here, but they have just as many stupid pregnancy laws.

I have two delightful spanish chums. When told some 'rule' they smile, nod and do what they damn well please!

And you can eat soft cheese if it's been cooked, so deep fried brie with cranberry sauce for example would be fine, if fattening.

lol at doner. I can't see why you wouldn't eat smoked salmon. I ate soft eggs second time round too.

I also got salmonella, but NOT from eggs, no idea where I got it from but dd was fine. I wouldn't recommnd it obv but just to point out that getting salmonella doesn't always end in disaster if you're pregnant.

I must admit, I haven't been paying much attention to any of it this time round, other than giving up smoking, not eating liver and not drinking much.

mmmm deep fried brie.

I was told my midwife in the UK not to worry about listeria when pregnant because I'm French! So I didn't

I don't know what's wrong with smoked salmon (probably listeria???) but that's what she said. But it istrue the rules seem to change from country to country... when I was pg the first time I was in Italy and was told not to eat salame, parma ham, raw meat and wash salad v.well . I kept eating unpastourised cheese and seafood (cooked). The second time I was pg I was here in england and it was all about listeria. so no cheese, apart from philadelphia.

Frenchgirl.....so probably the assumption is that you would have got listeria in the past at some time due to your totaly sensible consumption of yummy unpastured cheese at your mother's knee!

I knew that the French had life 'sorted'

Going back in the Summer and can't wait!

yes, we're immune to it, how sensible is that!
I am making dd immune too (as well as immune to dust....)

dd is also immune to dust!

Little begger will nick the last of the stinky cheese too!

How I love holidays in France. Sigh. Sun, bread, cheese and wine.....blissful. You really do have life's priorites sorted you know.....as do the Italians.

If it wasn't for the fact that I am a fat, faded blonde Welsh Woman I should actualy be a Svelt Elegant French woman

mmmm
I'd love to be svelte again
however my trousers from last summer feel a bit tight at the moment.........
no cheese for me then

I love food!

This \link{http://www.shef.ac.uk/pregnancy_nutrition\link} is the one I always turned to for info on foods in pg.