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Leaving cooked food out of the fridge.

I sprinkled yeast flakes on today's portion and stirred in a bit of milled flaxseed ...
I will have to get a measuring scoop ...
 
Should add, I had really bad food poisoning once which was the stuff of nightmares and left me in a weakened state for several months, so I do tend to be cautious as I never want to repeat that. I don't leave cooked food out and I don't reaheat stuff repeatedly.

pogofish nearly died after eating dodgy rice that had been left out.
 
In recent times my laziness means that I only used microwave rice so no spores ...
If I do start adding grain to my diet to fuel exercise, I may cook it from scratch - though I like the idea of doubling my bread consumption.
 
pogofish nearly died after eating dodgy rice that had been left out.

I don’t know about serious risk of death - at least once I was taken in to hospital where they got me back on an even keel pretty quickly but I was very sick, with my kidneys sending out very painful warning shots and one of my testicles swollen to about the size of a grapefruit - although the medics weren’t too worried about that and said it could easily be whipped-out if needed…! :eek:

I also had a fairly rough time over the next year to eighteen months after as the effects of secondary toxins associated with that form of e-coli kept coming back and setting me back more or less whenever I felt/thought I was finally over it. More tiredness, joint/muscle pains, shivers and generally feeling shit compared to full on food poisoning though.

I’d been for a weekend in London and eaten rice on two occasions, one in a situation apparently well known as a big red light for this particular form of e-coli in rice, so they never pinned the exact source.
 
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I remember talking to an American woman in a bar at a conference who espoused frying and eating afterbirth . Which was er... nice.
It used to be very much a thing. Placenta is very rich in iron, and a lot of women used to be severely anaemic post-partum, often largely because childbirth was often accompanied by severe blood loss.

Which brings us fairly neatly back on-topic, at least as far as the consumption of apparently-disgusting food substances is concerned :D
 
It used to be very much a thing. Placenta is very rich in iron, and a lot of women used to be severely anaemic post-partum, often largely because childbirth was often accompanied by severe blood loss.

Which brings us fairly neatly back on-topic, at least as far as the consumption of apparently-disgusting food substances is concerned :D
Can you eat other people's placentas?
 
Me too. I ate potatoes with skins on over the hostilities ...
Mind you there was also cake and custard made with no sugar ...


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It used to be very much a thing. Placenta is very rich in iron, and a lot of women used to be severely anaemic post-partum, often largely because childbirth was often accompanied by severe blood loss.

Which brings us fairly neatly back on-topic, at least as far as the consumption of apparently-disgusting food substances is concerned :D
On the subject of placentas and fridges, after my son was born, my wife shared a hospital room with another woman. On our side of the room was a fridge which I unplugged since we were only putting water in there and I wanted to use the socket. What I hadn't realized was that this was in fact a shared fridge and upon leaving the other person pulled out a plastic container from the (unplugged) fridge containing what I can only assume was a fresh placenta, leaving me worried that I had ruined their once in a lifetime meal.
 
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