If you make your own baby food (re: food safety)...

SeaSoul

...would you use a sweet potato that sat out all night?  I took it out of the oven at 11:00pm and was ready for bed, but was not about to put it in the frigde burning hot like that.  So, I let it sit out and intended to put it in the fridge at some point in the night, but forgot.  So it sat out for about 7 hours.  Would you use it for LO?

desabean

I don't feed g solids yet but I would not use it. It shouldn't be left out for more than 4 hours.

RoxBride

Nope.  For myself, maybe, for a little one, no way.

hannah&ben

I would use it.  It's a sweet potato not a piece of uncooked meat.  I don't think a cooked root vegetable that sat unpeeled and untouched for part of the night was breeding nasty bacteria.

Of course if you took a big slobbery bite out of it before bed, then no, I wouldn't.  Otherwise I don't see what would be wrong with it after only 6 hours

alison43

i probably would.  or i would at least eat it myself.  like hannah said, sweet potatoes aren't exactly the source of most food-borne illness.

JGirl2005

I'd consider it.  I'd probably eat it, but I think it is OK for LO but I'd just be extra cautious

SeaSoul

hannah&ben:

I would use it.  It's a sweet potato not a piece of uncooked meat.  I don't think a cooked root vegetable that sat unpeeled and untouched for part of the night was breeding nasty bacteria.

Of course if you took a big slobbery bite out of it before bed, then no, I wouldn't.  Otherwise I don't see what would be wrong with it after only 6 hours

This is what I was thinking (specifically about it being a unpeeled vegetable).  I took a few bites of it this AM so we'll see if I have any reaction by lunchtime.  I wouldn't have fed it to him 6 months ago when we first started solids, but at this point I'm thinking if it's okay for me to ingest, it's probably okay for him too.

jamalynn

I probably wouldn't.

skoorbnibor

hannah&ben:

I would use it.  It's a sweet potato not a piece of uncooked meat.  I don't think a cooked root vegetable that sat unpeeled and untouched for part of the night was breeding nasty bacteria.

Of course if you took a big slobbery bite out of it before bed, then no, I wouldn't.  Otherwise I don't see what would be wrong with it after only 6 hours

I agree completely with Hannah...

of course, I often agree with Hannah! lol

somethingchangd

skoorbnibor:

hannah&ben:

I would use it.  It's a sweet potato not a piece of uncooked meat.  I don't think a cooked root vegetable that sat unpeeled and untouched for part of the night was breeding nasty bacteria.

Of course if you took a big slobbery bite out of it before bed, then no, I wouldn't.  Otherwise I don't see what would be wrong with it after only 6 hours

I agree completely with Hannah...

of course, I often agree with Hannah! lol

Yep - this. 

Some days I think I should have "I Agree with Hannah" tattooed to my forehead.

rispergirl

hannah&ben:

I would use it.  It's a sweet potato not a piece of uncooked meat.  I don't think a cooked root vegetable that sat unpeeled and untouched for part of the night was breeding nasty bacteria.

This.