Lunch/Deli Meats

[SisterRose]

I avoided lunch and deli meats for the first 20 weeks of my pregnancy just because I heard they were unsafe and didn't want to take the risk of catching anything potentially harmful to baby.

After 20 weeks I decided that i'd pop the meat in to the microwave and just heat it up for 30 secs to a minute so that it was really hot. I figured that it'd kill any bacteria that was living on the meat so now I just microwave any cold meat/deli meats that I might want to eat. I'm sure the same thing would be fine with people in earlier stages of pregnancy.

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[summer rain]

Hi

I eat sealed lunch meats that have been packaged in a protective atmosphere (or that are tinned); but not those from deli counters (they don't do many halal deli meats anyway lol). I have never heard of any cases of listeria or other food poisoning from packaged lunch meats, at least not here in the UK. Children (and the elderly) are just as prone to these food poisoning bugs as pregnant women and children are more likely to die from it; so there'd be uproar if there was any cases of it. Over here I've never been advised by medical professionals to avoid the packaged ones personally; so I will continue to eat them.

Sophie