chicken OK?

[fireflyz]

I know I am probably being completely paranoid and ridiculous BUT... I'm about 10 weeks with 1st baby, have gone off food for about 2 weeks and been living on toast and marmite, and cereal mostly. Bionic nose won't let me eat much else, most food seems to grow horns in front of my eyes!

But over the weekend I decided I was going to have to try and eat better or risk scurvy!

So last night I cooked some chicken that I'd left out all day to defrost.

I cooked it for 35 minutes in the oven rather than the recommended 25mins.
It was OK, very hot and cooked all the way through.

But I felt very weird and sick afterwards. Which went on all night. I couldn't lie flat in bed and had to sit up. I really hate being sick and tried to avoid it by sitting up, but I didn't sleep well at all.

This morning I woke up feeling sick and hungry, but when I ate my breakfast cereal, I was sick straightaway (sorry if TMI). I'm feeling a bit better now for having been sick (should've done it last night instead of being such a control freak).

I've just remembered that we'd bought the chicken in March, although we'd frozen it straight away. I just read on the back of the box that if you freeze it, you should eat it within a month. We're not usually particularly strict about this kind of thing tbh, so I'm wondering if it's just that my stomach is a lot more sensitive than usual, not that I've poisoned myself (and baby by default).

I'm worried I've done something wrong, can anyone put my mind at rest?

Don't worry. I think that six months or less is ok for meat in a freezer.

Am sure that you're just oversensitive to food at the moment. If the chicken was fully defrosted and proper hot when you ate it then i doubt theres any need to worry.

Thank you!

I'm sure it's fine - your body probably wasn't expecting it after two weeks of toast and cereal! Plus if you had proper food poisoning you'd probably still be throwing up on the hour every hour!

If you were really worrying about it, it's not surprising that you felt ill. I know it sounds a bit odd but it could have been psychological, and mixed with a bit of sensitivity to food at the moment that could explain why you felt so bad.

I roasted a chicken on Monday, and when I looked at the packaging I realised the 'Use By' date was Sunday. I felt rough yesterday and was convinced I'd poisoned myself, but it's turned into a cold today, which I'm pretty certain you can't get from iffy chicken!