Can I eat these?

[~Belinda~]

I ate Maccas and ham and pavlova because they were all cooked (eg. I didn't have cold ham)

[feeb]

OHH i would love a pav!!! ITs my fav but dont see it many places lately!!!

Maccas another fav of mine.

Ham i used to love but at 14 weeks i stopped wanting to eat it and have onloy managed to eat it for 1st time on thurs so hope that i can eat more now!!!

MMhh i am hungry now dinner dinner what to have

[Skyeblue]

Thanks guys!!!

What about if say I did get a burger like a chicken burger or a fillet o fish (yum) what about the sauce it has on it? Would that be a creamy whole egg mayo? Or shouldnt I worry about little things like that! I want a fillet o fish! WITH the sauce! lol.

[mrsmac]

I have eaten maccas in all my pgs and everything was fine. Maccas now in most places cook to order so even better!

[Lulu]

Well if you pregnant before the 90's you could eat whatever you want!

[Astrid]

Thanks guys!!!

What about if say I did get a burger like a chicken burger or a fillet o fish (yum) what about the sauce it has on it? Would that be a creamy whole egg mayo? Or shouldnt I worry about little things like that! I want a fillet o fish! WITH the sauce! lol.

I doubt a fast food outlet would be using good quality whole egg mayo. Have a look at their website, there should be ingredient listings for all their products.

[Skyeblue]

Thanks Astrid, I went to the wesite and DAMN the sauce on the fillet o fish has egg yolks in it!

[tan32]

Oh i am addicted to Pav at the moment , every trip to the supermarket ends with a pav. Woolworths has them in a little tub so they are like enough for 2 people, hmmmmmmmm me and bub that counts for 2 people right.

[satya]

Most of what you've listed is fine except for mayo and salad not prepared within your own home.

I've seen 5 doctors during this pregnancy and they've all said no mayo due to the raw egg content - store bought or home made. Some of them also mentioned creamy dressings in general so that rules out all "white" sauces or dressings the take away places serve on their burgers. They also all said no salad unless you know it's been thoroughly washed - and how can you know that?

The thing that I found shocking about listeria when I got educated about it from a leaflet from the midwife clinic at my hossy is that it can live in your body for up to 70 days and you probably wont even know you have it.

The symptoms include flu like symptoms and sometimes urinary tract infection symptoms, very rarely the usual runs & vomiting that you get if you have "bad" food. That's why you don't tend to know if you have it.

If it crosses the placenta it can cause m/c, ruptured membranes, pre term labour and stillbirth. It is very rare in Australia but 70 or so cases are reported each year so it is still a real risk.

Apparently they only discovered that it could be passed on to us through the food chain in the 80's which explains why all our mothers and grandmothers think we are being ridiculous when we avoid the "risky" foods - they simply didn't know about it back then.