cheese

ok move this if its in the wrong place please??

when i saw the midwife at the hospital a week and a half ago, she sais soft cheeses like bocconcini and ricotta are ok as long as they are cooked and hot when you eat them...

which means that canneloni is back on the menu..

has anybody else heard this as somebody told me the day after this that shes wrong...

i really miss pastizzi which is full of ricotta and ravioli aswell....

help!!!:pray: id love to eat canelloni tomorrow!!

oh i just found this it may have naswered my own stupid question!!
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However, thorough cooking should kill any listeria, so it should be safe to eat food containing soft mould-ripened or blue-veined cheeses, provided the food has been properly cooked and is piping hot all the way through.


Cheeses which are SAFE to eat in pregnancy

Hard cheeses:
austrian smoked, Babybel, caerphilly, cheddar, cheshire, derby, double gloucester, edam, emmental, english goat's cheddar, feta (if bought in the UK), gouda, gruyere, halloumi, havarti, jarlsberg, lancashire, mozzarella, orkney, paneer, parmesan, pecorino (hard), provolone, red leicester.

Soft and processed cheeses:
Boursin, cottage cheese, cheese spread, cream cheese, mascarpone, philadelphia, quark, ricotta.

Yoghurts, fromage frais, soured cream and creme fraiche -- any variety, including natural, flavoured and biologically active -- are all safe to eat.

Cheeses to AVOID in pregnancy

Mould-ripened soft cheeses:
brie, blue brie, cambozola, camembert, chaumes, pont L'eveque, prince jean, tallegio. vacherin-fribourgeois, weichkaese.

Blue-veined cheeses:
bavarian blue, bergader, bleu d'Auvergne, blue shropshire, cabrales, Danish blue, dolcelatte, doppelrhamstuge, eldel pilz, gorgonzola, manchego, romano, roncal, roquefort, stilton, tommes, wensleydale (blue).

Soft unpasteurised goat and sheep's cheeses:
chabichou, pyramide, torta del cesar.

ok now i found another aust website that stated ricotta is not safe ... so confused!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that your second post has all the answers, the main ones to avoid are the camebert and brie type ones and blue vein. I think that most Aust cheese have been paustrised and that is what makes them safer.

hugs xoxo

Pasteurised cheese is fine. Unpasteurised cheese which has been thoroughly cooked and is piping hot throughout is fine.

In France pregnant women are NOT told to avoid these cheeses because they are such a normal part of the diet everyone is aware of the right way to handle/store them and thus the risk of listeria is smaller.

I know this isn't that helpful, since you don't live in France, but i just wanted you to know that these things are not set in stone - listeria in cheese is very rare and cooking removes the risk.

HTH

If have any doubt about food safety in pregnancy, visit the food standards australia website and look for the brochure called "listeria and food". It has all the foods to avoid in pregnancy and those that are safe.

Ohhhh I wish I lived in France!! Lol.....:p

I've been avoiding all soft cheeses just in case! There's just too many to keep track of! I've only been eating coon, but i'm craving bocconcini!!