Paranoid about food on holiday

[bookworm89]

Let me start by saying I am having therapy for my anxiety and I do realise most of the time I'm being irrational and it's my anxiety talking.

I'm due to go to Spain in a few weeks, I'll be around 20 weeks. I'm just starting to think I'm not going to hardly eat anything !
I've got anxiety and pretty bad ocd, this pregnancy has really ramped this up.
I'm paranoid about soil on salad, fruit and veg, I'm paranoid about the eggs over there, paranoid about the cheese for some reason !! I went to Majorca when I was pregnant with my last child, ate what I want, from the buffet, and was fine !! But this time I'm ridiculously worried and need some reassurance I'm not going to starve over there !!
Can anyone give me some sound advice ?
Thanks

Eating out? The usual advice - don’t eat salads or raw foods, stick to busy eateries, if in doubt, don’t order, stick to bread and hard cheese if worried.

It will be fine! They will look after a pregnant mamma over there.

Eat foods that are cooked and avoid salads
Are you staying in a hotel or self catering?

We will be staying in a hotel but only b&b so most meals will be out. We have a small kitchen in our apartment so I do plan to make lunch most days, only sandwiches etc, do you think this will be okay as then I can buy my own salad and wash it can't I?
You know the cheese in Spain, it's never like a hard cheddar is it, always slightly softer, what is it ? Is it that Edam cheese ?

It's soft blue and mould ripened cheeses with rind that you would avoid or only eat if cooked through. Harder cheeses are fine to eat.

And buy and wash your own fruit and veg

It's easy to check on cheese labels for Pasteurizada/Pasteurizado.
Enjoy your eggs fully cooked as you would here, maybe stick to bottled water this time. No raw stuff.

Okay thank you. What about the fruit on the buffet, I'm thinking i will be fine eating this for breakfast ?

PP said buy and wash your own fruit and veg.
Personally I would eat fruits from the buffet.

You also have to tell yourself that's it's Spain. It's a clean European country.

We're off to Greece soon, I'm pregnant and I'll be enjoying everything including big Greek salads.

Maybe watch out for ice in drinks too. My sister was being very careful abroad and had ice in a drink - she was sick as a dog (this wasn’t Europe mind).

With bananas, oranages, kiwis etc you don't eat the skin so they'd be fine surely, if they're served pre cut up and skinned then ask the staff for ones that aren't.

You can get manchego cheese everywhere in Spain - that's a hard cheese and pregnancy safe

I'm also off on holiday there tomorrow with Spanish OH - I lived there for 6 years and never got food poisoning in all that time despite not being careful at all

This time will just be avoiding seafood and raw food I think