Well, if I didn’t have a reason to swear off packet soup bases before, I certainly do now.
Wednesday evening I made vegetable beef soup, tasted lovely, and then I was quite ill on Thursday. I didn’t make a connection… Had the leftovers on Friday and late Friday night, ill again – made the connection at about 3 AM.
I know the beef was cooked thoroughly, through the browning at the start and the hour of simmering (and smelled lovely the whole time), the cutting board and knife and various utensils and pans were squeaky clean, so I don’t know if it actually qualifies as food poisoning or just something in the packet that quite strongly disagreed with me, or just something wrong with the beef that didn’t manifest itself before or during cooking, but the rest of the leftovers have been binned and no way in hell will I be using that packet again.
The good news is that I can eat again and watch cooking shows and Dirty Jobs will no unfortunate consequences. The bad news is that part of me is afraid to cook again for fear of going through this again.
And yes, only an idiot can manage to poison herself twice in the space of 3 days…