I know! All this talk of contraband food has me hungry!! LOL

TBH I don't know. Maybe eating so much raw or runny egg my whole life has helped me to build up some kind of resistance to those particular bacteria.

The main thing that got me started was when a friend compared eating runny yolk to having a drink of alcohol, that is both risks/risky. To my mind wine definitely has alcohol in it. Not all eggs are infected with salmonella. Only bad ones.

Re the cheeses, I thought it was the mold on the outside that was the issue? All this really does my head in sometimes.

I pigged out on wine, soft cheese and my nannas chocky slice (with raw egg) before the egg transfer (OMG a benefit of IVF LOL), but boy do I miss those foods now LOL.

PS, have you guys seen this email going around? This is the first part, made me chuckle at my food predicament hehe...

Subject: Lucky to be here
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

....

And it goes on