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

SeaSoul · December 2009

...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 · December 2009

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 · December 2009

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

hannah&ben · December 2009

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 · December 2009

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 · December 2009

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 · December 2009

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 · December 2009

I probably wouldn't.

skoorbnibor · December 2009

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 · December 2009

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 · December 2009

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.

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