Food Anxiety

[Stressandanxiety22]

Hi all,
I am constantly anxious about food at the moment. 27 weeks pregnant but this is a new low. We ordered a lovely valentines day pizza kit to be delivered to the house. Only after eating it did we notice it had been dispatched Saturday and delivered today (Monday) via a normal delivery company.I am now going crazy with worry it's going to harm baby or make them sick. Dough, cheese, sauce. All sat in a warehouse unrefridgerated for that long.... (36 hrs min!)

Please tell me I'm overthinking this.

Surely it will have been frozen to start with?

No it was a fresh DIY kit. Ball of dough, cheeses, sauce.

You are overthinking this, and I say that in the nicest way possible.

Dough is flour, water, yeast and oil all fine unrefrigerated
Cheese does not need to be in the fridge it just lasts longer that way but it can still handle much much more than 36 hrs out of the fridge.
sauce is generally in a jar or packet on a shelf, only needs refrigerating once you've opened the pack.

I don't keep pizza dough in the fridge.

Pizza bases in the supermarket aren't kept on the fridge.

Cheese doesn't like getting warm but was literally invented as a way of preserving milk in pre refrigeration days. In ye olden days (when I was young) we kept it in the pantry in a dish.

Sauce - again presume packed in a way where its not temperature critical. Like most supermarket pizza sauces. And ketchup etc.

Wouldn't be good business sense to post stuff out to people that had a high risk of harming them. I bet it explains this on their website somewhere.

Thank you for your response. There's so much to worry about I just clasp tight of everything and panic.

The sauce is the main thing I'm concerned about as it wasn't in a sealed pack, was in a tub as fresh.

No nothing on the website, I have trawled through it. Nothing on any socials either other than next day delivery! (It wasnt)
Sauce in a plastic container rather than packet so would have been put in there from a larger pot I imagine.

Surely you're going to cook the pizza thoroughly? In which case, what's the worry?

Because that doesn't eliminate all risk?

In the nicest way, I think you're overthinking.

Assuming you ordered from a reputable company. There are food standards that they will have to meet if they sell perishable goods and as a company they simply wouldn't be able to package and post food that way if it required refridgeration. It would be illegal and definitely grounds for complaint if they did so.

What did it actually say on the package about use by dates and storage for the product?

I’m on my second pregnancy, both I still indulged in the occasional naughty cheese, a small wine at Christmas (and Valentine’s Day this year!), a little pate and cured (shop brought) meats. Survivors bias maybe but all these rules just seem bizarre. Not to eat a slice of salami for the risk of of something that’s a far lower risk than being ill from undercooked chicken.. but chicken isn’t banned?

Try to relax and enjoy the pregnancy OP. Being highly strung about what you do and don’t eat the entire way through will just make you miserable. I’m not endorsing eating what’s not recommended, just because I do doesn’t mean you have to or should but by doing your best you’re doing more than enough.

Have you spoken to your midwife about your anxiety and/or some accurate information about the food guidelines?

Thank you all for your comments, I think just panic is so natural when you realise these things and it's too late to do anything about it.

It is, especially when it’s essentially too late. I’m sure if you’d noticed beforehand you’d have less anxiety, would have weighed up situation and probably have still ate it after a sniff of the ingredients.. but because you’d already ate it and didn’t have a choice that’s when the anxiety sets in, because you’ve got no control by that point.

I’m a long time suffered of anxiety OP. I would have done the same!

Nothing will happen to you.. if u already haven't pooped yourself lol and that should be all . Bythe looks you havent..so chill and forget about it