Help- food avoidance confusion!

[sprinkleofsunshine]

Hi,

I may be overthinking it but today I was checking whether I could eat the vessel dressing in subway as I know the Nando's one contains unpasteurised cheese. I read that you shouldn't eat subway at all really because of the salad being left out plus the deli meats and the bacteria that could be on them.

This has made me think can I not eat fresh baguettes/ salad from salad bar type places, noodles with veg/meat where they cook it in front of you in these wok fast food type places?

I'm about to have a quick tea of the Tesco jasmine rice & katsu curry and now I'm thinking is that ok because there's egg used in the breadcrumbs and I don't know if it's lion stamped.

I imagine I'm over thinking this but got led down a wormhole today when reading. I'm 7 weeks pregnant.

Ceaser not vessel*

Well I’m 28 weeks pregnant with my third and would eat the vast majority of the things you have listed.
I avoid the foods listed on the NHS website. That’s it.

You're massively overthinking things. You don't need to avoid any of those things. See nhs website for up to date info

Thanks @SoyDora I have just been following the nhs guidance so far aswell. The egg thing threw me off as they say lion stamped but sometimes where it's contained in bought food you don't know- where it's just used to coat pano chicken though it's hopefully low risk for anything and it's cooked.

I was surprised to see when I started reading how much food people would avoid! So just wanted to check.

If eggs are cooked through it doesn’t matter if they’re lion stamped or not. It’s only if you’re eating them soft that the lion stamping becomes necessary.
We buy our eggs from the farmer down the road, no lion stamping!

If it's parmesan that's the unpasteurised then that's ok as that's a hard cheese. Who says it's unpasteurised anyway?

Just go on what is on the NHS website and don't read anything else. Breadcrumbs are cooked so it's not relevant. As is stuff in wok places, basically anything that is cooked properly is fine. Ready made sandwiches and baguettes are absolutely fine. Even mayonnaise in sandwiches is fine. It's only homemade type stuff from raw Egg I would be weary of and even then, if the eggs were lion stamped then I would probably have it. 99% of places selling sandwiches on the high street won't be making their own mayonnaise and nandos sauce will be fine. Like I said, just stick to nhs list and try to relax otherwise you are going to have a very long pregnancy and be very hungry at the end of it!! 😂

If you cook the eggs then it doesn't matter if it's not lion stamped as cooking kills bacteria

Thanks all! I haven't worried about anything up until now it's only when I was reading about this ceaser dressing and then started reading that I realised there is a lot people don't eat but maybe I was just on a particularly cautious thread. I'll do back to how I was and just rely on nhs otherwise as you say I'm going to babe a very hungry 9 months!

My fiends sister works in Nando's and told her when she was pregnant not to eat their ceaser dressing as it has unpasteurised cheese in it, which is something I would never have thought of but that's what made me think about the subway one today.