Eating things off the floor

[0karen]

really forked from "to expect people to take their shoes/boots off?"

When food has fallen on the floor do you bin it or eat it?

I and my DDs usually end up eating it but it drives my mum mad, especially if the girls do it?

What Mofo said. (wave to Mofo from MK)

3 second rule here, but basically the same as Bluddy!

Depends how clean your floor is, and whether you have pets. If I had a dog or cat then it would be binned!

I personally don't unless it's an uncooked veg as I was it off and cook it but the kids do it all the time lol

*wash

My DS is always swiping his food off of his highchair, it gets picked up and plonked back onto his tray!

Bit like bogeyface says - depends which floor? If it's my kitchen floor that's recently been mopped then yep, if it's the pavement then no, same goes for what you drop - a non-sticky sweet then I would but a banana or something that something would stick to then no.

As per Chloe :)

I bin it. I saw a documentary about it, and they studied the "8 second rule" and apparently the most horrific of bacteria can cling after a millisecond on the floor.

My dh always picks up stuff off the floor and eats it. But he is a law unto himself.

We endorse the 'did anyone see it fall?' rule.

Lady - I take it you didn't do BLW then

It really depends on how much DS wants to eat it. If it was a sweetie anything goes. If it was a slice of apple or banana I'm sure he wouldn't.

I think the same rule applies to me!

It's a 3 second rule here too...though if it's something particularly nice - like chocolate, the rule can be extended to 5

If I dropped a piece of fillet steak on the floor, I certainly wouldnt bin it.. I would rinse it under the tap.. as I would with most uncooked food.. as cooking will kill any bacteria anyway.

Cooked food it would depend where it dropped and if I managed to get to it before the dog pounced.

always pick it up if i'm the one who dropped it (or if it was DH because he's weird about it)

however, if it's fallen in the house where there's cat hari, I only pick it up if it's not "wet" food iyswm.
(ie, peanuts, fine, pasta, no!)

If it looks ok, yes I'll eat it.

Not if ther is anything stuck to it.

Only if I just dropped it, not if I found it on the floor!

3 second rule

We have a cat and would eat it, as long as its picked up fairly quickly (i.e. not time for the cat to have a sniff of it first). The exception is the hall, as shoes get wiped on the mat and the cat's food bowl and litter are here.

DS2 was mainly BLWed from floor-cheerios.

Thanks WeirdFamily for posting that, I thought I had misunderstood BLW and that it was not the baby feeding itself floor-food!

My gran used to say 'God kissed it, devil missed it' before scoffing it. It never did her any harm. Not sure if you have to have the backing of religious fervour for this to work though

We have a ten second rule here. Anything longer than that, goes in bin, and i certainly wouldn't pick up off floor from outside the house.

If it's the bit of floor under the highchair, we eat it. It gets washed 3 times a day! Elsewhere we bin it - certainly if it's in the street or a restaurant.

If rinsed fine, if not, no - dog & cat here, so worm eggs an issue (and believe me, I am not a hygene nut).

We have a cat and would eat it

I know times are hard but blimey...you'd eat your cat? [shocked]