Everything I want to eat says dangerous

[Sarah1087]

I've downloaded an app of foods does and don'ts.
I had oregano into my pasta to cool yesterday I've checked now and it says increases of mc

I really want to eat a grilled smoked bacon sandwich on brown bread for breakfast and I've checked it says dangerous

Everything I want is giving me red flag wtf surely I'm ok to eat bacon if it's piping hot and cooked properly

Eat the bacon OP, eat the bacon! I am this time and did last time, my daughter is fine.

Oregano?!

Just look at the NHS website. There aren't that many things they advise against and the risks from most things are extremely small anyway.

Oregano? Bacon? What do you think these will do to you?

Follow the nhs guidance not scaremongering.

Where is this app from? It doesn’t sound like it’s based on actual evidence.

TBH I only follow the advice on rare meat, mould ripened cheese and limiting oily fish.

Honestly... I avoided unpasteurized cheese unless fondue (with alcohol added)... and sushi (but was told I could eat it as sushi is frozen first so ok) additionally I was told to avoid deli meats. Other than that I ate everything!

what!?!

oregano in normal household spicing quantities is absolutely fine.
a bacon sandwich occassionally is absolutely fine.

the are only few things to be careful about for example raw meat/fish, runny egg (from not vaccinated chicken), liver. and eating from places with questionable foog hygiene.

that app sounds like a pike of crap. Where is it from? Not the UK probably. Bacon is fine, oregano is fine. Bin the app and look at the nhs website instead

Pile not Pike!

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

pate is a no no.prawns cooked fine ditto anything else cooked don't worry it's on NHS website

How bizarre. I am pregnant, ready to pop any day now, and the only things I have avoided are unpasteurised or mould-ripened cheese, cured/smoked cold meats, alcohol, and caffeine.

Delete the app OP and just follow the NHS list of foods to avoid in pregnancy. I've never heard of oregano or bacon being a problem!

Be wary of advice you read online that comes from other countries (this might be the case with your app) as their advice may be different simply because food processing practices are often different in other countries.

As others have said Just follow NHS advice as you have no idea of the research behind everything else. I’d also say for anything pregnancy related just look at the nhs as everything else contradicts other things and can just scare you for no reason

Thanks for the link for nhs food guide.

I'm just sat enjoying my bacon sandwich 😂 It's an app from iPhone store, it was free but obviously a massive pile of 🐶💩

It is getting deleted, I'll find the post regarding oregano and screen shot it and and post on here

I wish more people were scientifically literate and didn’t just blindly accept things they’ve read on the internet...

It was on the internet actually

It wasn't the app.
But I agree in only following the nhs advise, as they are probably scare mongering

There really is a load of crap advice on the internet.

My (hopefully not crap) advice is to stick with the NHS guidelines and buy yourself a book called 'expecting better' which discusses the thibgs you're told you can and can't do in pregnancy.

OP you don’t need to google every little thing. That’s the way madness lies.

For heavens sake! If oregano, in eating quantities, could cause miscarriage, don’t you think desperate women throughout the centuries would have preferred that to coat hangers and other horrendous methods? They could have just enjoyed a large marinara. That thing you posted even talked about tea, rather than a sprinkle on pasta!

Oh FFS, I get sick of all the unfounded bollocks on the internet designed to shut pregnant women into tiny paranoid boxes.

Pregnancy is really not all that fragile. I generally followed the NHS advice as a nervous FTM, but the joy of being second time around is in basically taking a commonsense approach and just getting on with your life. Apart from smoking, drinking, and taking illegal drugs, crack on with pretty much anything you liked to do or eat before you got pregnant. (And lie on your back while you do it, if you feel like it.)

I agree with you all.

I've been in sheer panic every day because of good old Google I'm not doing it anymore.

I'm going to have a look see if the book is on eBay thank you

Sarah I'd get rid of the app, you need to have some quality of life.

My opinion is follow NHS guidelines but not necessarily strictly...a little bit now and again won't hurt.

As others have said, just follow the NHS advice. You’ll go mad/starve if you don’t eat everything the internet tells you is unsafe!

That screenshot you posted just talks about oregano tea though. No idea about that, but I think there are some herbal teas that you should be careful with.