Do’s and Don’ts for Xmas dinners

[Pugs079]

Hi! I’m still in my first trimester and we’re going for our first Christmas meal tomorrow. I have been trying to figure out what I can and cannot eat. I’ve looked at the restaurant menu and am I correct in thinking that stuffing (made outside the turkey) is safe to eat? I think everything else is off limits: prawn cocktail, smoked salmon, terrines/pates, baked Camembert and tiramisu? X

[Seb9]

Stuffing is fully cooked and normally made of sausage meat, so fine to eat, prawns are fine, they're fully cooked. Smoked salmon used to be OK, but just after I had my second after living of it for most of my pregnancy there was a problem with Listeria and it was removed from the safe list and no to the Paté. Camembert is normally fine if it's being cooked as long as it's steaming hot at it kills the listeria. Tiramisu does contain a small amount of marsala wine so I would avoid it.

The NHS have a pretty good list of foods nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-we...