Woman gives ENTIRE family food poisoning with her 'cheapskate' Christmas lunch - landing her daughter in hospital
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A woman has shared how one cost-saving tactic for a Christmas spread came back to bite her when all of her guests ended up with food poisoning. The unnamed women, who shared her cautionary tale anonymously, detailed how she usually took charge of all festive celebrations in her family network.
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As such she had amassed an armoury of 'penny-pinching' party planning tactics to help mitigate the cost of hosting festivities. This including shamelessly boxing leftovers from events like corporate functions. While this normally proved successful without anyone being the wiser, on one fateful Christmas in 2017, it all went awry.
Writing in Women's Weekly she detailed how she convinced a caterer at a friend's work event to let her have the entire festive leftover spread as well as luxury 'party wares'. 'He was concerned about the hygiene and quality of the food, but I convinced him by saying it was just for my large, extended family and that I wouldn’t keep it for more than a day,' she wrote.
But this was lie, with the woman keeping the food for her extended family’s Christmas party which was to be held a few nights later. One woman's penny-pinching efforts to have a budget festive feast came back to bite her family when most of the attendees ending up with food poisoning.
