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DH treats me like a crIminal for it but am I doing anything really wrong?

Sometimes I just eat a few small spoonfuls, other times I make a dough with a little water and eat that. I don't do it often but sometimes i just crave it (not pg)

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If mixed with butter sugar and raw egg and eaten as part of cake mix....

Flour alone? I'm with your DH and hereby say YABU

No, but, but, BUT... what about the weevils?

)))raw, uncooked weevils(((

I've always understood it to be high in bacteria and can make you quite ill

High in weevils too, and they're ALWAYS there...

They'll make the OP wobble but at least she won't fall down..

Caught my DD2 (3) eating flour from the bag the other day. So she would say YANBU.

But had not thought about potential presence of weevils. Boak.

<goes to brush DD2's teeth 2,003 times to remove possible weevil contamination>

Ew that's yucky.

Thought DD2 had been looking wobbly lately. That would be the weevils.

at Worra.... instant cure for drunkenness then? So a spoonful of flour at the end of a good sesh and you'll stay forever upright, OP.

I like eating raw potato and other people find that ... odd.

It must be the starch or summat.

Hi,
Have you heard of "pica"? It's the scientific name for when people eat non-food substances or ingredients - I think eating flour might come under this heading. Have a Google and you might find some more info.

By the way, I don't think YABU, but I can't imagine it's doing you any good. If it were a valid/healthy foodstuff when raw, wouldn't it be more common for people around the world to eat it that way?

Hahahaha worra that made me giggle out loud!

Oh I love raw potato too, LineRunner.

I also LOVE raw egg yolks on toast.

I used to eat chalk when I was a child and not pregnant.

I like to eat flour though. As Kayano said - in a cake. I used to have a bag of SR flour and used it even though it had little wiggly things about half a cm long in it. Made cakes taste nice.

It is a food substance most of us eat it everyday just cooked. Your not hurting anyone tell him to bog off

When I was about 5, I started nibbling on a pottery cup. It was part of a set from a dolls house - 4 cups and 4 saucers and a small teapot.

Over the next few weeks, I secretly worked my way through the lot . I don't know why but I distinctly remember wanting to eat it, enjoying the grittyness of the pottery and thinking I ought to do it in secret because it wasn't quite right.

Haven't thought about that for years, but the memory of 'craving' the pottery is clear. So the flour thing is odd, but not that odd

Sounds like pica, as others have mentioned. I have it, although my obsession is less healthy than an actual food stuff..... apparently due to a lack of a certain nutrient or mineral, in my case possibly magnesium or iron. I've stopped, on my current diet I don't feel like I need it but I do get horrible, horrible cravings....

Are they weevils, or weasels? (Thinks Worra will understand!!)

Dh eats raw potato. gross.

I love raw pastry - never eat it cooked Everyone I know thinks it's odd.

I dont have weevils in my flour - and if I did they would be a source of protein.

(((Big hugs to air tight containers)))

Raw potoatoes? better than cooked
Raw pastry - just a god given food really - I love raw pastry!

I eat raw potatoes mmm used to eat them when my mum had already cut for chips there fab. as a child i remember eating soil too it had a lovely texture and even now i can still remember the taste

I love raw potato as well, and the raw flour mix as described.
And frozen chips. Mmmmmm

I cant touch meat if theres still visible blood though (Still have vivid memories of being given wrong steak at a meal and hearing it Moo when I cut into it)