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Prawns and nuts.. can I just eat them anyway?

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TotallyAndUtterlyPaninied · 14/08/2009 12:39

I mean are they really so bad? None of us have any nut allergies and I LOVE muesli with nuts in. And I love the odd prawn sandwich from our local bakery- they're scrummy.

Also, is feta on the naughty-list?

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Firsttimer7259 · 11/09/2009 11:50

I just read somewhere official (sorry really cant remember ut if it wasnt FSA or something similar I think I would have ignored it)that you shouldnt eat 'mould ripened cheeses' even if made from pastuerised milk. That rules out the brie I was so pleased about discovering.

Aaaargh

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bubblesincambridge · 11/09/2009 14:28

I've been eating nuts big style, specially the unsalted ones with dried fruit from M&S. They are good for you! I think prawns are fine too so long as they are cooked.

Cheese is OK so long as its pasteurised so check the packet.

I really think most of this so called advice about what food to avoid is a load of rubbish. I think I have had everything now that is on the embargoed list, before reading somewhere that I shouldn't have eaten it. No one in the 60s had all of these restrictions given to them.

Now they say things like "don't eat because there is no evidence it is safe" even when they have no evidence that it is unsafe. Well, of course there isn't any evidence that something is safe, research on such things isn't allowed on pregnant women so there will never be any evidence that it is safe. All this advice does is make us all completely paranoid! I've even read in several sources to avoid fruit juice - well I've never heard of anyone getting listeria from fruit juice before!

Just be sensible, as you would normally and remember to take usual precautions to avoid food poisoning of any form. And consider where it comes from too. I've never heard any advice saying not to eat kebabs for instance, but kebab vans are pretty notorious.

One word of warning though, I managed to give myself toxoplasmosis last year from some rare cooked lamb. Luckily that was before I was pregnant though.

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nothingbyhalves · 11/09/2009 14:32

I found the best source of advice on food was on the food standards agency website. But don't beat yourself up! I went for dinner recently with a friend who is 36 weeks (i'm 13) who lectured me all the time about cheese cake and ice cream! Just listen to your body and common sence.