Cheese sandwiches

[PirateQueenie]

I know we shouldn't be eating sandwich meats, but what about prepackaged cheese sandwiches?? 😕

What? No eating of sandwich meats? There are some restrictions for salami etc and pate of course but you can eat a ham sandwich!

Cheese is a fine as long as it's been pasteurised, so not brie etc.

No restriction on sandwich meats in the UK. All hard cheeses including Stilton also fine. Soft cheeses such as Brie, Camembert etc must be cooked first, or avoided.

Prepackaged sandwiches are fine, including meat ones. Just don't eat ones that look like they've been hanging around for days in a dodgy service station

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/foods-to-avoid-pregnant.aspx#cheese

The chance anyone were to get food poisoning, even from pâtes or cold-cured meats is very remote indeed, as is the chance of getting anything else like tapeworm these days.

Maybe you shouldn't get these things straight from your neighbour who is an organic farmer, but things in supermarkets have come from such industrialised places that the concern should rather be that they have been pumped full of nasty stuff to prevent all the stuff we are afraid of.

That said, I'd agree that you shouldn't get anything that has been lying around for days, but who likes that anyway?

I lived in cheese sandwiches during my pregnancy and went in to relive a 10lb 8oz baby!

Blooming autocorrect -

I didn't live "in" the sandwiches but on them. And I delivered my baby, not relived her!

I am addicted to BLT sandwiches, four lunches in a row now

kikibo pregnant women shouldn't have pate because it is made of liver, which contains vitamin A. Vit A causes birth defects.

They also advise you avoid vegetable pates though, dontpoke, because all pates have some risk of them being contaminated.

I really miss my chicken and chorizo pate, it's about the only thing I wish I could eat. Couldn't care less about alcohol, caffeine or anything.

Ahh ok thanks everyone, I'm a veggie anyway so don't know exactly about meats but thanks for reassurance on cheese 😀😀

dontpokethebear, Vitamin A doesn't cause birth defects. Too much of it does, then again too little does too.

Sweet potatoes are apparently even richer in vit A than liver, and I don't see anyone banning them for pregnant women.
So unless you eat tons of it several times a week, there isn't really any risk to it.

Actually the vitamin A in sweet potatoes is in the form of beta carotene which is not harmful as opposed to the vitamin A in liver and therefore pate. Best avoided.

You'd have to eat several sources rich in vit A including more than 150g of pâté/liver every day for a long period in order to get vit A poisoning, though. 100g according to the FDA only contains 66% of your daily amount if I'm correct, so it's not that extraordinary unless you overeat. And that applies to normal non-pregnant women too.

NHS guidance attached for anyone who is interested / hasn't seen it.

www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/917.aspx