Nitrate Free Lunch Meat!

k3montel

So I've been craving a plain old lunch meat sandwich since I found out I was pregnant.  However, most lunch meats contain nitrates (as I'm sure you all know). 

My doctor told me that Boar's Head has a line of preservative free / nitrate free lunch meat.  So, I did some research...if you call 800-352-6277, you just tell the person you would like a list of nitrate free lunch meats that they have.  They email the list immediately!

I thought the phone call would be obnoxious, but it was super quick!

Anyways, enjoy your sandwiches!

TLizzy

I want lunch meat too... but my OB strongly suggests heating to a "steaming" temperatue to avoid listeria and the thought of warm lunch meat makes me feel ill...

lindsayandjamie

It is the risk of listeria that is more of a concern above and beyond the preservatives that make it a risky choice during pregnancy.  Please heat up your deli meat to steaming if you have to have it.

Mackalack

Yes, please be careful!  There have been more cases of listeria recently, so it's definitely something you need to watch out for!

lindsayandjamie

Ainslie325:

My doctor also recommends heating lunch meat to steaming, but I find it helpful to keep the overall level of risk in perspective. There are nearly 13 million people in Illinois, and, according to my OB, approximately 20 reported cases of listeriosis (infection by listeria) last year, most of which were not in pregnant women. While the consequences of infection for an unborn child can be significant, a handle on the real numbers helps me from being too concerned about the summer sausage I put on a cracker last week.

To me, eating processed meat is not worth the risk. To each their own.

tak2002

I eat lunch meat all the time. I'm just a crazy rebel. For the OP...Applegate Farms also has nitrate free meats if that is something you were interested in

KYRN

tak2002:

I eat lunch meat all the time. I'm just a crazy rebel. For the OP...Applegate Farms also has nitrate free meats if that is something you were interested in

Me too!  And I eat it in front of my OB all the time (we're co-workers), he is very much a practitioner of  evidence based medicine.