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neurotic food-poisoning question

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herbaceous · 01/02/2009 19:47

Hello

Just been to the MIL's, and on the otherwise delicious pudding, she put some custard which was, frankly, rank. Birds, I think, from a carton.

When questioned, it turned out that she'd been looking at the 'sell by 2010' date, and not the 'use within three days of opening' bit, and it had been in the fridge, opened, since the beginning of Jan.

Now I'm all paranoid. I'm sure it must be UHT milk, if it were to last until 2010. Can anyone offer me some words of reassurance? I only had a spoonful, but still...

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CookieMonster2 · 01/02/2009 19:55

;Food poisoning normally starts very quickly after you have eaten the offending item. Sounds like you'll be fine, esp if you only had a spoonfull.
Are you sure it was accidental? Its normslly the MIL's job to feed you something you shouldn
't eat when pregnant just to prove that all these rules on food that they didn't have in her day are just made up

flamingtoaster · 01/02/2009 20:33

I know how you feel! If you only had one spoonful you should be fine. When I was pregnant we were asked to a friend's house for a meal. They served chocolate mousse which I assumed had not been made with raw eggs since they knew I was pregnant ... wrong. Having finished it I said it was delicious - at that point they told me how it was made ... I was terrified... but fine as it turned out.

shell96 · 02/02/2009 09:10

I'm 28wks pregnant. I finished a jar of peanut butter the other day (advice on eating peanuts during pregnancy seems mixed and since i'd been eating them during the first 8 weeks before i knew, i decided there was no point in stopping them now) and went to check if i had another jar. I found an unopened jar in the back of the cupboard but the use by date was Nov 08. This made me wonder about the use by of the jar i had just finished as i couldnt remember buying it - after pulling the old jar out of the bin the result was - use by Jan 07!!! Yikes!! 2 years out of date... so far no ill effects though. What a bad mum i am and it's not even born yet

georgiemum · 02/02/2009 09:15

Poor you!
I wouldn't worry about it though. I am pretty sure that there isn't much in there that would cause food poisoning. You would have been sick by now if there had been!

My sister thinks that 'sell by' and 'use by' dates are a bit of a challenge.

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herbaceous · 02/02/2009 09:17

Crikey shell. A jar of peanut butter lasts about five minutes in my cupboard!

Custard update - so far, no food poisoning, so am hoping all is OK. The one that scares me is listeria, as that seems symptomless in the mother, but grim for the baby. But as that seems to be found in unpasteurised stuff, rather than heat-treated processed type stuff like this custard, I'm hoping I'm just being neurotic.

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MrsBadger · 02/02/2009 09:18

no chance of listeria from old custard

you will be fine

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herbaceous · 02/02/2009 09:18

Also, peanut butter is so full of salt and sugar, it doesn't get much of a chance to go off. If it tasted all right, then it probably is. That's my theory.

Custard tasted VILE.

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May67 · 02/02/2009 09:33

I think if you were going to be ill it would be within 24 hours of eating said offending item. Hope you're ok. It IS MIL job of giving weird/unsafe things to test you, odd cheeses, alcoholic stuff, raw egg mousses. Mine even gave my DD margarita ice cream which had a couple of shots of tequila in it when she was 2. She'd made it and put it in a wall's tub and it was the same colour as vanilla! We only realised after she'd polished off a bowlful. She was fine, slept very well that night!

I'm panicking because I've been eating lots of smoked salmon recently, can't get enough. But I've just remembered from last time around that you're not supposed to eat it while pregnant? Or is smoking it like cooking it?

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herbaceous · 02/02/2009 09:36

Smoked salmon is fine, apparently, as the smoking does indeed act like cooking it.

I'm not ill so far, but do have the constitution of an ox. Just worried about baby...

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shell96 · 02/02/2009 14:50

Well i have to admit i don't hold much opinion of use by/sell by dates and if something looks and smells ok then i will generally eat it however 2 years out of date is quite far beyond even my realistic expectations of food! lol

I'm sure you'll be ok from custard though as it's long life stuff.

brettgirl2 · 02/02/2009 17:39

If you're not ill the baby will be fine. If you only had a tiny bit and realised it tasted rank then you are unlikely to be ill.

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