eek i ate potato salad

[booboobunny]

i'm not actually making light of this as i am a bit concerned.

i've been suffering from quite severe hyperemesis for 5 weeks now and have tended to eat what i fancy when i fancy it as a result.

well yesterday i fancied potato salad, which hasn't happened before, so when i went for a trot i bought some from m&s. now it occurs to me that it had mayo in it, which to my knowledge contains raw eggs. i've checked the packaging, and the eggs were pasteurised, which presumably make the salmonella less problematic, but are there other risks?? it was just the once, and it was a normal size tub. can anyone give me an idea of how worried i should be about this before i go mad please??

if you bought it from M&S (ie not homemake mayo) then its fine, relax!

Do not worry at all.

Potato salad is fine! I'm amazed by all the things people think they can't eat in pregnancy - the actual list is really pretty short, check out food standards website.

Commercially produced mayonnaise is pasteurised as you say so will be totally safe to eat.

normal shop bought mayo is fine. it's only the home made stuff that's made with raw eggs that isn't. don't worry! anything with mayo in from m&s is fine.

You only have to worry about home-made mayo with real raw egg; I'm guessing shop-bought mayo or mayo in sealed deli products is fine (made with pasteurised egg, apparently - goodness knows how they do that!).

See here: www.eatwell.gov.uk/agesandstages/pregnancy/whenyrpregnant/

thanks. i checked on the nhs 'foods to avoid' web page and it said avoid so i just panicked! but it really was so little. thanks for the reality check. phew!!

while i have such a well informed crowd about, can anyone tell me whether halloumi is also to be avoided. generally it says it is made from cows, sheeps and goats milk. now i know goats cheese should be avoided, but then goats cheese is also a soft cheese, which halloui defo isn't. does anyone have any insight into whether it is also on the avoid list please???

Don't worry about it

The chances of having anything nasty in it is miniscule.
If there were any chance of food poisoning you would know about it by now
Even if you did get food poisoning the chances of it affecting you baby are tiny.

i've been eating halloumi (says on the packet i have the milk is pasteurised). but presumably you will cook it anyway - therefore no problem

I think with goats cheese it would be for the same reason as brie and camenbert - it's the mould-ripened outer that's the problem, small chance of listeria (I think). Blue cheese is the only other cheese to avoid, again because of mould in it (ie the blue bits). So I reckon there's no reason to suspect any problems with Halloumi.

halloumi is fine, i ate a whole packet in one sitting the other day - had a bit of a craving....

(I'm the same way with black olives BigRed. But that's the same even when I'm not pg )

You're fine with halloumi, as you are with pasturised mayo.... no worries!

thanks everyone. since reading that halloumi included goats milk and thus assumed i couldn't eat it, i've been desperate for some. a bit annoying as i let the husband eat the whole blummen lot when i was having a fine barf-free afternoon and we skipped out for some lunch. roll on the next 'good day'....really hoping the nausea and sickness end soon. sooooooooo bored of being sick now.

Goats milk isn't the problem, it's the fact that a lot of goat's cheese is unpasteurised. But any cheeses (except, as someone has said, mold-ripened and blue cheeses) are fine as long as the milk used to make them has been pasteurised. I eat loads of (pasteurised) goat's cheese!