I SOOOOOOOOOOOO want a prawn cocktail!!!

[mummygow]

I sooooo want a prawn cocktail, but cant because I'm pregnant!!

Think I'm right in saying there are no banned foods in France. Interesting that....wonder if their figures for infections harming babies are worse than ours. Doubt it.
I think we get given far too many edicts. Easier to ignore them second time around though.

Welshmum don't tempt me I'll be ordering DH to go buy duck pate, salami, that stuffed pasta with parma ham in it.... blue cheeeeese.... peanut butter! Argh. No.

I also want Heineken and lemonade.... only Heineken though. No other lager!

What's wrong with salami??????

It says on the back '100% raw pork'...isn't that bad? I suppose it would be ok cooked on top of a pizza etc but I want it straight from the pack in a baguette smeared with naughty full fat butter!

My SIL who is a health visitor said all the eggs are fine now as they have all been salmonella tested (if you buy them from a big supermarket) so I made strawberry fool with whipped egg white in at the weekend.... I've been eating parma ham and parmasen, but I am DYING for pate....tried mushroom pate but it just didn't hit the spot....also looking forward to grilled goats cheese.....
Afraid have stretched to two glasses of wine on occasion..............

Oh! Oh well.

Last time I ate a whole tub of pate on toast and then found out the next day I was pregnant, I felt guilty for months lol...but somehow I didn't feel guilty about the continual peanut butter scoffing! Hmmm... I don't know why we bother with all this nonsense to be honest!

The week before I found out I was pregnant I had been to a wedding and been away for the weekend and I had eaten pate about 5 times! I had never eaten so much in a week ever. And had got drunk twice, been on a fairground ride and took loads of ibuprofen. I was worried for ages and then I went to extrememe lengths, ie if I heard once somehting was bad I didn't do it because even though it was unlikely to do harm it was easier not to worry. Althouth there is always someone who is more paranoid than you, I met someone who wouldn't fly when pregnant and who wouldn't eat hellmans typw mayonnaise cos of the eggs! Also a friends french cousin had lost her baby because of listeria (is that the unpasteurised cheese thing?).

I wanted to have a 1950s baby, you could drink smoke, eat what you wanted and got to put your feet up!

For everyone who's confused, there's very good and sound info here
The issue is not that these things definitely have listeria (mould-ripened soft cheeses, pate etc.) or toxoplasmosis (raw meat etc.), but that they COULD have, and the horribleness of the potential effects on baby if they turn out to have. I'm definitely of the 'better safe than sorry' camp (but being a vegetarian and detesting brie, I haven't really had to give up much!)

How about making a mock prawn cocktail but using crab sticks or ocean pinks - contrary to belief neither have been anywhere near seafood.

kikwi, i'm sorry. i am also craving a big fat peanut butter sandwich.

misdee, kiwi, that's one thing I have had to give up (asthma and dust mite allergy) and have been craving! Oooohhh, a peanut butter sandwich on soft stick-to-roof-of-mouth-sticky English white bread (am in Germany so can't get that either)... OK, I'll shut up now.

Poor you, I was just the same!
My lovely husband had a M and S prawn cocktail waiting in the fridge for me when I got home from hospital though!

I've always been confused about prawns.... my dh keeps on saying that I am exaggurating. I asked the midwife and she said that prawns are good if they are well cooked and not eaten from a doggy restaurant.
berolina, i just looked at the site you linked which added another thing to worry... today i had an ice cream from a van!!!! the 99p thing, which btw now is £1.40?! now how many of you knew that...
about raw meats, is ham OK or is that usually cooked?

ham is cooked meat isnt it?

greenbug, try not to worry too much - as I said it's only that the ice-cream COULD be contaminated with bacteria. Chances are everything's fine. If you feel ill, though, pop to the doc's.
But OMG, they've got expensive!!!

berolina thanks for that link its really good and included everything I dithered about. I have added it to my favourites in case I do it all again

I'm now 22 weeks pregnant and have been eating prawn cocktail's since I got to about 14 weeks. It's only a risk of food poisining to yourself, not the baby when it comes to prawns.

I ate prawn cocktail during my pg- and nuts

Never ate them excessively mind you but enough that I was satisfied and ended up only once or twice

No real evidence to say anything will happen to you or baby

My 3 are super and absolutly love prawn cocktail
eldest is 3 and the twins are 17 months