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?

I clean my kitchen floor about 5 times per day and so will eat anything off of it.

5 times per day? Blimey...no need for plates then either

5 second rule here in theory but in practice its 'if i get to it before the cat' as he's an ex-stray who will eat practically anything and moves like lightening if there's even the possibility of food

mutznutz

10 second rule.

I do 5 second rule here, sometimes extending to 10 second depending on what it is that dropped. No animals here - anywhere we've been that has a dog or cat, nothing gets eaten off the floor, no matter how quickly it's retrieved.

uncooked food - yep, rinse it and use it.
raw food - rinse it and eat/use it.
cooked food - blow on it (adding all those lovely mouth germs to it but removing any dust ) and eat it.

Outside in the street - it's left where it falls or kicked into the gutter but never retrieved.

Depends. If it's a whole turkey twizzler,and a Wednesday, then probably.

if its my floor - yes if I have dropped it, was intending to eat it anyway.
Not saying my floor is cleaner than anyone elses, but at least I know where its been. Bizarre logic I know but it works for me.

We eat it.

Maybe we are a bit icky, but tbh I hoover every day and there are no shoes in the house and no dog either.

So frankly the floor is probably as clean as the plates.

Not off the pavement tho, no way.

We eat it. Why on earth not??

I feel uncomfortable with how precious we have become about food: I used to eat carrots straight out of my grans garden, bread if it was not moldy could always be used for cheese on toast/croutons. Best before/expiry dates really irk me...

I've scooped icecream of the grass for DS in the past. Didn't do him any harm.

10 second rule applies here. Older children are still alive and very healthy. Same goes for out of date stuff- follow common sense rather than what's printed on the label. People are far too precious about dropped things imo.

pacific, I whole heartedly agree. I think people get very silly about germs etc.

5 second rule
and we have a cat
and wear shoes in the house

immune systems second to none, us lot.

What is this eating things off the floor thing??

I don't get a chance with 2 dogs hovering near anything edible.
walking hoovers My babies!

My MIL was appalled to see me pick a dropped rice cake off the floor and hand it back to DD. I was genuinely surprised that she was so horrified, in fact I thought she was joking at first
I was raised in a house where the cats roamed free across all surfaces and I can count on one hand the number of times I saw my mother mop a floor. I haven't had a stomach bug in about 20 years and I never get ill so I'm off the school of thought that a few germs are good for you!

Now we have the dog, unless it can really really be washed, e.g., raw veg, we have suspend the 3 second rule. It has to all go in bin.

Ah, yes, four legged hoovers dogs; we don't have one, but I just found DS4 10 months eating spilt Cheerios from the kitchen floor puppy-stylee - he was most annoyed being removed from them

you throw out anything that touches the floor in your own house?

Of course we pick it up and eat it! We have no pets, no shoes in the kitchen/living area and are normal sensible people who realise that its not gonna kill us!

providing you are quicker than the dog...why not!

that why we tend to have the three second rule, and not the five second....just too damned slow!

My older daughters tell everyone that when they were younger they always knew when I had dropped something when cooking a meal.

If I hadnt I put there plates on the table and if I had I used to shout them through to the kitchen to pick there own plate

I didnt have the heart to decide which one was the getting the dropped food

Apparently DD3 was in the kitchen this morning trying out the bits of bone the dog rejected last night... She seems to survive everything, but I'm not convinced that DH is really feeding her properly while I'm incapacitated.