No restaurants during chemo !?

Yes, I had the same advice along with a list of foods to avoid at home. I did follow the advice.

Never heard of it, but then again most of my treatment happened during the pandemic. However, I see the logic of this advice: chemo can make a patient immunocompromised, so the medical teams try to minimise opportunities for picking up infections. Avoiding crowded places is one such strategy. Avoiding eating food prepared by unknown hands is another.

Only advice re food I got was avoid grapefruit. No advice re takeaways or eating out. We did both during my chemo although only at safe times in my cycle.

also told avoid sushi and the like, and sometimes i want

I was told to avoid takeaways.  I did have fish n chips once though.  It's general advice on avoiding food poisoning, as far as I can tell.

it may be more due to the rise in covid at the moment

Hi Iman, I was advised to avoid raw fish like sushi, grapefruit and probiotics. Other than that I carried on as normal and had take aways and ate out at restaurants. I was careful and made sure I chose dishes that I knew and didn’t take any chances on new dishes. I can understand why they would mention this as your immune system is low during chemo and there could be a possibility of picking up some bacteria that could make you poorly. I did have one stint of being poorly after eating out and spent 48hours in hospital. Whether it was really to do with the food or whether it was a bug I have no idea. All in all my breast care nurse just said to basically be sensible and carry on as normal - don’t hide yourself away. I took her advice and found I was fine. Obviously everyone is different and everyone will be given slightly different advice. I think you have to do what you feel comfortable with. 
Wishing you all the best.

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Given a long list of foods to avoid, which I largely ignored as it would have meant completely changing my diet. Had no issues. On the first chemo I had (EC) advised which days of the cycle I was most at risk. 

Thank you everyone for your responses. 

I wasn’t advised against eating out but was advised about food hygiene, not to share food, not to eat leftovers etc.  i may be wrong but I think the level of care you need to take also depends on how your body reacts.  I had blood tests before each treatment to check the counts and the levels stayed really good throughout so I was less careful than otherwise.  I would be really careful to start with and see how well you tolerate the chemo and talk to the nursing team as the weeks go to see what they say.