How to avoid Potluck food poinsoning?

[Anonymous]

PP is right

But Op, skip the potlucks
It's an easy thing to avoid, skip the potlucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, Just wanted to say that you are a great partner to your husband. I know that caring for someone undergoing chemo is incredibly stressful, especially when you add in things like food poisoning to your worry list. I hope your husband has a full recovery.

+1
Cheering for you. OP

[Anonymous]

If his immunocompromised, he should stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t even eat potlucks due to food hygiene issues and I’m “healthy”. You’d be nuts to do it in his case. Some people are real pigs - don’t wash their hands, animals in the kitchen, using food that’s too old, etc.

Just have him eat earlier and explain it’s doctors orders.

+1

Plus, people are bad judges of which food to eat. I have seen people bring food from the messiest, most disgusting, non-particular and dirty homes, whose owners very likely do not wash their hands often, if at all - and their food was eaten completely; while people who brought food from the cleanest houses, who are very particular and extremely clean, and who use disposable gloves to cook (for one example) - their food was not touched. I could not believe my eyes. Just do not partake, OP.

[Anonymous]

OP, nobody must feel compelled to take part in eating potluck food. If he can't eat it, he can't it. Full stop. He has the best reason in the world for not eating anything at the potluck. He doesn't need to explain it to anybody.

[Anonymous]

^^ can't eat it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t even eat potlucks due to food hygiene issues and I’m “healthy”. You’d be nuts to do it in his case. Some people are real pigs - don’t wash their hands, animals in the kitchen, using food that’s too old, etc.

Just have him eat earlier and explain it’s doctors orders.

+1

Plus, people are bad judges of which food to eat. I have seen people bring food from the messiest, most disgusting, non-particular and dirty homes, whose owners very likely do not wash their hands often, if at all - and their food was eaten completely; while people who brought food from the cleanest houses, who are very particular and extremely clean, and who use disposable gloves to cook (for one example) - their food was not touched. I could not believe my eyes. Just do not partake, OP.

I can't imagine who cooks a meal at home with disposable gloves.

[Anonymous]

Never really got the potluck thing. I don't like my own leftovers, so wht

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never really got the potluck thing. I don't like my own leftovers, so wht

Don't think people bring leftovers to a potluck. Hope you don't eat in restaurants..

[Anonymous]

So why we would I like someone else's leftovers as anymore than my own?

[Anonymous]

avoid the salmon mousse

[Anonymous]

Most restaurants actually do kind of suck - but what's your point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just avoid mayonnaise dishes? What else?

My husband is still under chemotherapy and can not risk getting sick or he ends up in the hospital again. Any advise is appreciated.

Mayonnaise has such a bad reputation. Store bought mayonnaise is perfectly safe and doesn't even have to be refrigerated after its opened. Its the food that mayo is added to that you have to worry about (if the potato salad makes you sick, its the potato that is the culprit and not the mayonnaise.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why we would I like someone else's leftovers as anymore than my own?

Who is bringing leftovers to a potluck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t even eat potlucks due to food hygiene issues and I’m “healthy”. You’d be nuts to do it in his case. Some people are real pigs - don’t wash their hands, animals in the kitchen, using food that’s too old, etc.

Just have him eat earlier and explain it’s doctors orders.

+1

Plus, people are bad judges of which food to eat. I have seen people bring food from the messiest, most disgusting, non-particular and dirty homes, whose owners very likely do not wash their hands often, if at all - and their food was eaten completely; while people who brought food from the cleanest houses, who are very particular and extremely clean, and who use disposable gloves to cook (for one example) - their food was not touched. I could not believe my eyes. Just do not partake, OP.

Is there a way to tell which dishes were cooked at a “messy, disgusting” home, and which were cooked in one that’s hermetically sealed off from all germs at all times? Of course not. The good food will be eaten; the bad food will be left alone. If you don’t like potlucks, don’t go or only eat the food from people you know well.