Stupid Question - What can't I eat??

[Twinkie]

Can only think of liver/pate and soft cheese - is there anything else I should stay clear of??

I know I should know all of this - I have been pregnant before!!

ANd I know there will be threads but my PC takes so long to load them!!

I'll spit on your spit and then we both won't be able to eat it - think of all those calories we will save!!!

UK go bonkers over what not to eat.....in Europe you can eat what you fancy!!

here we go again! the food standards agency DOES NOT recommend giving up salami, cured meats or fish, because the risk is deemed to be very small.

i recently started a thread on prepared salads - as a result i have started eating them again.

here it is

www.babycentre.co.uk is good for the "is it ok to...?" questions.

Where does everyone stand on the caffeine thing?

i try to stick to below 300mg per day, per guidance.

What gets you to 330mg a day? How much is your average bucket of latte?

here

Superb - thanks bossykate - much appreciated

If you were to go for everything you are supposed to give up you would be eating tinned spaghetti and nothing else.

Check on the Food Standards Agency website for the most up to date list.

Prepared salads OK, Salami OK, peanuts OK (unless you or the dad has a family history of allergies),Smoked Salmon OK, Pasteurised soft cheese OK, chocolate compulsory

I am going on holiday to Japan in 9 days time. I will be 21-22 weeks pg while I'm there. DH is driving me crazy about the sushi. I don't see why a bit of raw tuna should be verboten when smoked salmon is ok, besides it's probably straight out of the sea over there. My theory is that people just aren't very familiar with it and say oh no, you can't eat THAT!

What do you think - am I being sensible or just kidding myself?

Wouldn't eat raw sushi myself whether pregnant or not. Smoked Salmon has a lot of salt added and there is something is the smoking process known to kill off the bugs that may be there. With sushi you don't have any of these processes and the big concern is parasitic worms the fish may have had.

But at the end of the day it's your choice.

i've been eating sushi while pregnant - always get it from busy popular sushi place (eg not Pret a Manger etc). As long as you're sure it's fresh it should be fine

Does anyone know if women in Japan are told not to eat sushi when pregnant?? Or do we (and US I guess) have completely different dos and don'ts lists?

Advice from the Food Standards Agency -

Pregnant women and their unborn babies, young children and older people are at particular risk of illnesses associated with fish and shellfish.
People with weakened immune systems, diabetes and those on organ transplant or cancer medications are also particularly vulnerable.

Because of the risk of an allergic reaction, babies younger than six months old should not be given fish or shellfish.

People who are at risk are advised not to eat raw or partially cooked fish and shellfish.

So they advise pregnant woman not to eat raw fish.
The whole advice thing is here www.food.gov.uk/safereating/foodadvice/Fish

Advice for pregnant woman does vary from country to country for eg in France they do not mention umpasteurised cheeses but advise you to get rid of your cats whilst pregnant!

Also found this the definitive list.

• soft mould-ripened cheeses, such as Camembert and Brie, and blue-veined cheeses

• any type of pâté

• any food that isn’t properly cooked, especially undercooked meat and raw or undercooked eggs (always make sure that food is piping hot all the way through before you eat it)

• shark, swordfish or marlin

Hope it helps!

The Food Standard Agency are very clear that Twixes are ok for pregnancy and bf, BUT, Twinkie, the Family Planning Association website warns that Consumption of Twixes AND Cheesecake have been implicated in the mysterious disappearances of coils / IUDs.

Ooohhhhhh thats alright means I can eat as many twix's and cheescakes as I want now!!

Dp taking me out to dinner to a scrummy italian in Chislehurst tonigt - I am gonna have marinated anchovies and then lemon sole in crab butter - oooohhhh - think this baby is gonna have a thing about fish!!! (AND THEN CHEESECAKE!!! )

Ohh lucky you.

(whispers ...I hope it isn't the piece I spat on earlier )

and Creme Eggs are compulsory in pregnancy I heard!

Chislehurst not that far from me Twinkie but I'm staying away I hate the smell of fish right now.

Cadbury's Creme Eggs are an essential part of the diet. I have mine stacked up in the egg compartment of the fridge - god help me if I try to make an omelette while half asleep

But remember, you have to boil your Creme Egg until is is hard...

LOL!

But remember, you have to boil your Creme Egg until is is hard...

Found this on the net from November 03:
News about health and medicine

ESoft cheeses like feta, bleu or camembert ? if made with pasteurized milk ? are now considered safe for people most likely to get food poisoning from listeria bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration says. The agency's previous advice to pregnant women, people with weak immune systems and the elderly was to avoid soft cheeses altogether.
But new studies show soft cheese made from pasteurized milk is not at a high risk for listeria.
The FDA also recommends that ready-to-eat turkey, ham and deli meats, which have the greatest risk of carrying listeria, be consumed soon after purchase and leftovers stored at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Listeria can cause flulike symptoms and is sometimes deadly. In pregnant women, it can cause stillbirths without mothers realizing they are ill.

And no, I didn't think that was such a funny joke it needed another airing...