Frozen food recall for listeria

bananers · May 2016

Heads-up: if you buy frozen veggies from Costco, Safeway or a number of other stores, there has been a massive recall due to possible listeria contamination. Listeria is serious business for pregnant women as it can cause miscarriage and still births.

I'm pissed. We will be throwing out a lot of stiff today as we buy a lot of frozen veggies from Costco, most of which have already been opened and eaten.

https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm498841.htm

SkiChic626 · May 2016

I saw this, too. womp womp

charmedlifex3 · May 2016

Thanks for the heads up, I just emailed it to my husband to go through our freezer. Scary!

JournoGrl23 · May 2016

I saw this and sent it to DH as well. This is so scary! All this listeria stuff seems to be getting out of control. I'm afraid to eat anything.

bananers · May 2016

JournoGrl23 said:

I saw this and sent it to DH as well. This is so scary! All this listeria stuff seems to be getting out of control. I'm afraid to eat anything.

Right? Screw lunch meats and soft cheese. The real danger is vegetables. I'm pissed.

texasmama2014 · May 2016

Looks like I'll just eat cookies (baked of course) for the rest of my pregnancy.... They seem safe.

JournoGrl23 · May 2016

@bananers Exactly! It's been happening more and more with fruits and vegetables. And of course ice cream. I haven't heard of any cases with lunch meat or cheese recently.

bananers · May 2016

@JournoGrl23 my RE actually told me to stay away from ice cream. He had a patient lose a baby to suspected listeria. It's terrifying.

emmeline714 · May 2016

next thing you know everything is going to be contaminated the ways things are going grrrr

MamaKSquared · May 2016

Wait - Ice cream?!? How have I missed this? I have ice cream a few times a week!

PJpeppercorn · May 2016

Ugggg-- my daughter and I eat Trader Joes peas everyday and she's had stomach flu symptoms for the last week. She seems okay now. I was literally eating peas when I read this article. Anyone know how long symptoms take to show?

JournoGrl23 · May 2016

@bananers No ice cream?! I've eaten it several times this pregnancy. I crave it a lot. But I have been worried every time I eat it wondering if it's contaminated. My office holds a birthday thing each month and when I went to mine in March they served us blue bell ice cream and I ate it without thinking. I panicked for a week worrying I would get listeria since that was the one recalled for it.

bananers · May 2016

@JournoGrl23 I probably wouldn't worry too much about it. I mean FFS, at this point you'd have to stay away from everything.

JournoGrl23 · May 2016

@bananers That's completely true.

Nikkoli98 · May 2016

@bananers, Costco has a bit of a strange return policy on food. They only require you to return "a portion" of the product. I'm pretty sure they will give you a refund on anything you have already opened and not yet finished.

tmk0325 · May 2016

I'm pretty much living on ice cream, because vegetables- unless raw -have held no interest for me! Occasionally I use frozen veggies for stir fry, but thankfully none of my brands were on the list. I can't wait until I can have deli meat, sushi, wine and whatever else we aren't supposed to have!

Nikkoli98 · May 2016

I just got an automated call from Kroger also saying some of their sunflower seeds and salad toppers have also been recalled for Listeria. :-/

bananers · May 2016

Nikkoli98 said:

I just got an automated call from Kroger also saying some of their sunflower seeds and salad toppers have also been recalled for Listeria. :-/

WTAF? I'm going to start growing my own food.

charmedlifex3 · May 2016

I'm super excited farmers market season started this week around here. Locally sourced food for the win.

Seriously though, we went through our freezer and one thing in there was contaminated - was a bag of peas we had marked "DO NOT EAT" because they serve as an ice pack, not food. It does make me wonder about what we already have eaten...

jamiesc58 · May 2016

I just read an article that said around 100 snack foods have been recalled.

https://fortune.com/2016/05/04/snacks-food-recall/

karima65 · May 2016

What should pregnant women eat if they are recalling so many things. Makes me afraid to buy anything bc cooking is supposed to get rid of most bacterias but apparently not this one.

JournoGrl23 · May 2016

This is getting rediculous. Between all these listeria recalls and the Zika virus it's a scary time to be pregnant.

bananers · May 2016

^for realz.

texasmama2014 · May 2016

Don't eat anything and hide inside with mosquito nets and bug spray!!!

I really need to buy some bug spray...

Bookhousegirl · May 2016

I'm just going to start microwaving everything I eat... Although there's no way in hell I'm giving up ice cream.

JournoGrl23 · May 2016

Bookhousegirl said:

I'm just going to start microwaving everything I eat... Although there's no way in hell I'm giving up ice cream.

I will not be giving up ice cream either! I've just been staying away from Blue Bell after their listeria outbreak and hoping all the other brands are safe. I actually had some ice cream today after lunch and it was delicious.

Curls919 · May 2016

I'm late to this but I thought the threat from ice cream was just from homemade stuff where there may be raw egg yolk. Commercially produced stuff should be safe, right??

AliKay20 · May 2016

All this ice cream talk makes me want to get a vanilla ice cream cone from McDonald's!!! I'm lovin' it!

texasmama2014 · May 2016

Curls919 said:

I'm late to this but I thought the threat from ice cream was just from homemade stuff where there may be raw egg yolk. Commercially produced stuff should be safe, right??

Last year several people got sick and a couple died off bluebell... They were out of production for months tho to clean and sanitize. I'm keeping my ice cream!!! No way I'd survive the summer without it!!

Stephanie7693 · May 2016

Damn! I buy my broccoli from costco. And now I'm glad my spinach lasagna didn't sound good the other night, I skipped it and had mac n cheese instead lol. Looks like I need to throw out my broccoli and anything I've premade with it

I knew veggies were risky for Ecoli and listeria, but frozen veggies is bullshit. And I'm not giving up my dove ice cream bars! I have one every night. I think it's actually time for one now...

jamiesc58 · May 2016

I guess the safest thing for all pregnant women is to eat carbs and sweets only.

Nobody is dying from Mac & Cheese, donuts, potato chips, cookies, etc...

texasmama2014 · May 2016

....and the sunflower seeds I just used up (on salads) are on the recall list for snack foods. Great.

jamiesc58 · May 2016

I had Velveeta shells and cheese for lunch. No veggies, sunflower seeds, or snacks. It was amazing! I may eat it everyday.

texasmama2014 · May 2016

@jamiesc58 good call.. the kind that has whole wheat noodles is basically a health food right?

charmedlifex3 · May 2016

We should totally have a recalls thread - if someone spots a recall on a popular stroller for instance, or food... Maybe even a sticky as we get to the point we are actually depending on baby items for the health and safety of our little bundles in a few months...

PineappleMD · May 2016

Make your own ice cream! It's super easy - we have our own backyard chickens so I know the eggs are fresh and not contaminated (but you could easily get a dozen fresh eggs from your local farmers market or roadside stand), and we have one of those little counter top ice cream makers that whips it together pretty quickly. It's awesome, and then I don't have to worry!
Now if only I could have a whole farm of fresh produce... and afford to pay someone to plant/harvest/package it all for me... then we'd be golden!

jamiesc58 · May 2016

Absolutely @texasmama2014! But I would watch for some recall on wheat lol.

Mfuller76 · May 2016

I signed up for the FDA's food recall email alerts after @bananers first post and now I'm scared to eat anything. I think it's all because of the sunflower seeds, but still!

I've had Blue Bell several times this pregnancy. I figure they are probably hypervigilant about listeria now and they went through a massive cleanup, so it's probably safe right? Soft-serve fro-yo on the other hand... Nope. Not risking it.

JournoGrl23 · May 2016

I signed up for the FDA recall email list as well. Just want to let everyone know the frozen vegetable one spread to some brands at Kroger now (along with those snack products of course).

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