Hello, I know everyone does things their own way but I'm wondering who ate seafood from restaurants when pregnant?
I'm going out to dinner with a group of friends on Friday night and it's to a seafood restaurant. I got a BFP this morning and I'm not ready to share my news yet as it's so early but I don't know if I should eat anything that's on the menu and I don't want to stay home!! With my first pregnancy I was super strict with everyhting I ate and only ate seafood if I bought it fresh and cooked it myself but I don't know if I should be so full-on this time...
So, do you think I could eat seafood off the menu? Or just fish? Or neither?
Would depend on the restaurant for me, but as a general rule, yes, I ate seafood from restaurants.
I however don't eat shellfish or mussels etc anyhow, so it a strictly fish affair for me anyhow, and never had an issue.
If you are concerned, ask how the fish came into the restaurant - frozen or fresh - and when it was bought in.
i recently went out with the inlaws to a place ive never eaten at before, and my first choice (there only vegaterian meal, im not vegaterian) wasnt being served that night, and there was nothing else i liked on the menu, so i ordered the beer battered barramundi, was tasty and im all good!
I always looked at the quality of the restaurant and picked food accordingly e.g. hot food rather than cold. I did eat seafood throughout last pregnancy and have in this one. I think I avoided oysters but did eat prawns, mussels and most types of fish - I am sure at a good seafood restaurant (is it somewhere you know has a good reputation?) there will be plenty of things to choose from.
Really the only thing I restrict myself is food from lunch platters in meetings at work (because often have been standing about ages and you can never be sure when was prepared or who has had their hands on them) and sushi from sushi stores (I have eaten it when made fresh by friends though).
From all my reading, seafood is totally fine when served hot (it needs to be at 75deg for 15 sec to kill bacteria, the whole way through, so cooking will achieve that no probs unless it's seared tuna or something).
I've been loving BBQ prawns, tinned fish and fish and chips (mmm don't get me started on chips!)
There are a few bigger fish (flake, swordfish etc) that you shouldn't eat more than once a fortnight due to mercury levels.
I wouldn't eat cold seafood though. Missing my smoked salmon! In fact, I'm not really eating anything cold, except fruit! Quite paranoid!
Avoiding mussels etc might be an extra precaution seeing as they live off all the junk that falls to the bottom of the sea!
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