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freezing cooked chicken
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melt71
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I cooked my whole chicken tonight (it was lovely - thanks for all your tips of how to cook it! 
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I've made 5 pasta meals for future work lunches and I want to freeze them, usually they wouldn't have meat in but this time I've used some chicken. How can I safely defrost them to eat for lunch?
Do I need to defrost and then reheat in the microwave? I usually prefer to eat my lunch cold, as a pasta/rice salad but I'm worried that the chicken will make me ill if I don't reheat it. Is this true?
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)I've made 5 pasta meals for future work lunches and I want to freeze them, usually they wouldn't have meat in but this time I've used some chicken. How can I safely defrost them to eat for lunch?
Do I need to defrost and then reheat in the microwave? I usually prefer to eat my lunch cold, as a pasta/rice salad but I'm worried that the chicken will make me ill if I don't reheat it. Is this true?
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No, it is absolutely fine to defrost and eat it cold. In fact, I would have thought it was safer because not reheating it properly is what could make you ill.0
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You can eat it cold with no problems as long as it is completely defrosted. If I am defrosting something for lunch the next day I lift it out of the freezer the night before and let it defrost slowly in the fridge.
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