Different food recommendations for pregnancy?

[little_mrs]

Agreed!

I think with the maccas a dr will tell you not to eat it weather your pg or not!! As long as it's not a daily thing (which would be bad for anyone!) I've had it a couple of times now just try to order something slightly different so they have to make it fresh for you. With the tea, i think the theory is that too much caffine while pg can lower birth weight, but that would make tea way better than coffee or coke! Cold meats (like ham and stuff) are sometimes not actually cooked and because they're cold bacterias can form in them, from memory meats cooked past 60 degrees C right thru and eaten hot is generally thought safe because that heat kills the bacterias. Soft cheeses are fermented with moulds, so eating them cold can contain listeria too.

I'm no Doctor or nutritionist or any sort of expert, this is just my personal opinion and what i've learnt over the last 6 months!!!

[juniper76]

from memory meats cooked past 60 degrees C right thru and eaten hot is generally thought safe because that heat kills the bacterias.

I don't know about other bacteria, but I believe it's 70C for listeria.

On the sushi thing, if you cooked the rice and chicken fresh and refrigerated them straight away they should be fine as long as you use them within 24 hours. However, having said that, I'm super-paranoid and wouldn't eat either of those cold.

For the tea, there's so many conflicting opinions. Read up on it and decide for yourself what you believe. I don't recall hearing of any issues with plain black tea (other than the caffeine), but I'm not an expert by any means.

For the leftover roast meat, I'd just microwave it before putting it in the sandwich to make sure it's piping hot the whole way through. Again, use within 24 hours of original cooking.

And as for the greasy food... I've been so bad with that. DH & I eat too much take away and, with the restricted options (based on who I trust to sell freshly-made hot meals), I have to admit that fish & chips and pizza do make it to the top of our list too often.

[MrsFabuloso]

I'm another person who just uses my instincts and common sense. I still eat ham, pizza, and premade salads ect. But only if I know it comes from somewhere I have eaten at alot and there is a high turn over of food. So somewhere I trust that is clean and has good food handling practices. I still eat left overs but no more than 2 days after it has been cooked and only if I heat it to HOT in the microwave or whatever. I also eat takeaways like macca's and KFC if I feel like it (though that's not so often). Sushi isn't reccommended because of the high rate food poisoning assosiated with it, but if you make it at home and use all cooked ingredients it should be ok.
The only foods I totally steer clear of is raw eggs, raw meats, soft cheeses like brie and camembert. I will pm you a good site I found recently re:food recommendations in pg.