Summer Sausage?

[USAFKnineWife]

I've had summer sausage a few days ago. It was Hillshire Farms and the only brand that I have ever eaten. I didn't heat it up either. I have eaten it in every pregnancy that I have had and things were just fine. Although I don't eat it every day nor do I eat a lot of it. To each their own I say.

 

[Skadi]

If there was listeria in every piece of Summer Sausage or Cold Cut Meat then nobody would eat it. The point is that you never know if something is contaminated with listeria - and it will not look, taste or smell off either! It just takes one bite to get deathly sick. Also it can take up to two months sometimes for symptoms to appear. Pregnant women are much much much more susceptible to it than the rest of the population (20x more likely btw) and with a mortality rate of 25% you would think we would be a lot more careful. Even if YOU surivive the baby would not - it generally leads to miscarriage, stillbirth or an extremely ill baby.

 

[Cazlabump]

British Girly here - what on earth is Summer Sausage? lol xx

 

[CeeDee]

I love summer sausage as well, but I'm going to pass on it while pregnant unless I heat it up. When my mom was pregnant with my sister she was so broke that most of the time she ate bologna sandwiches. Now that's a no no.

 

[ssuchianlo]

Haha...summer sausage sounds so good...and this is the season for it. We get booths set up in the mall that sell all kinds of variations on it. Yum! I guess if you're really worried heat it to steaming like we're supposed to do if we eat deli meats. You could also ask you doctor.

Man...I really want some now!

 

[Skadi]

British Girly here - what on earth is Summer Sausage? lol xx

It's a type of cured sausage - kind of similar to Salami I guess?

 

[Cazlabump]

British Girly here - what on earth is Summer Sausage? lol xx

It's a type of cured sausage - kind of similar to Salami I guess?

aha! thankyou I can now fully appreciate this thread haha xx

 

[sjwebb]

I guess I can heat it up and put it back in the fridge right? To cool it back down once any bacteria is killed?

 

[Mari30me]

Who the hell makes up these rules?! As if pregnany isnt hard enough, they want to deprive us of everything. All I want is some COLD, summer sausage on ritz crackers with cheese. If I heat it up, I think its just going to be nasty and I won't want it anymore haha.

I had some a couple of weeks ago and I was just fine. I was craving it soo bad. I say if you want, have it!

 

[Mari30me]

and I did not heat it up either! lol I do not eat it very often, but just had to have it at the time

 

[Sam182]

I guess I can heat it up and put it back in the fridge right? To cool it back down once any bacteria is killed?

As I said previously- please do not do this! It causes more bacteria!!!! If you heat something up you have to eat it whilst it's hot!!

 

[sjwebb]

Thanks Mari! Thats the answer I was looking for. I just don't want to be scared to eat something.

 

[Mari30me]

Thanks Mari! Thats the answer I was looking for. I just don't want to be scared to eat something.

Np! I actually ate summer sausage once in a while with my 1st 2 pregnancies as well and no harm was done

 

[sjwebb]

And also let me clarify my statement earlier about "depriving" us women of food we like. It wasn't a serious statement. Obviously some people cant tell sarcasim. I obviously understand that there are tons of things that could hurt my baby, but again, you didn't need to be so literal.. And let me say thanks Kristin for your kind replys.

 

[Kristin52]

No problem