AIBU to wash yogurts and bananas? (No I am not and if you think I am you are wrongity wrong)

[SilentBoob]

I am talking about packed lunches. Both my children have a sandwich and whatever else they are taking all in one box. I don't wrap things separately. If I put a banana or a yogurt or anything in a packet into their lunchbox I wash it first. To do otherwise is surely revolting in the extreme? Have you seen the state of the yogurt shelves in the supermarket? So why would I nestle a pot straight from that shelf into the lovely soft sandwich I have just lovingly made for my child? And you wouldn't put an unwashed apple into the lunchbox, so why would you put an unwashed banana? I know they don't eat the skin, but we're talking about a skin that has been processed and sprayed and handled and groped and sneezed on how many times before you snuggle it into your childs lunch?

I am not mad.

Please inform my dh that I am right and not mad and he is wrong and revolting.

You are nuts :)

Get a 2 litre divided plastic tupperware - the sandwiches, crackers and other dry things go one side with (washed) chopped apple, cucumber and carrot sticks the other. Yoghurt goes revolting if not kept in a fridge so I wouldn't put it in a lunch box that is going to sit in a bag / on a shelf for 4h.

Just liquidise the lot and put it in one pot.

Less hassle all round and no fiddly sandwich bags either!

Bizzare. Just when you thought it couldnt get any madder another one comes along.

Am off to mass now, will pray for you op.

You're not right, because we all wrap our sandwiches you weirdo

Have you checked your 'don't come apart' theory?

Make a snack box up on a Saturday . Get your dc to carry it around a bit, drop it on the floor, store it upside down on a shelf for several hours and then drop it one mire time as they open it.

Get back to me on that would you?

Lol @ liquidise the lot . That does have a certain appeal...

I put icepacks in their lunch so no prob with keeping it cool.

Seriously? I am the only sane one on the whole of Mumsnet and you are all bankrupting yourselves on turtle-killing sandwich bags?

Does your dc not twirl their lunchbox around in the air then? Ds2 is like a windmill with his on the walk to school in the morning. I don't want to imagine the carnage inside his lunchbox if I didn't wrap the sandwich.

You are slightly completely bonkers

reuseable sandwich wrap is your answer

I would rather be a wrong slattern than a yoghurt washer

Life is waaaay to short and i doubt anyone has died from yoghurtpot/banana contamination.

Ah now, if you really gave a shit about the environmental impact you wouldn't be buying little individual pots of yoghurt in the first place.

Have you seen the pencil pots at school? People touch the pencils, then write with them! and the playgrounds, children are right out there, playing, on the dirty ground, where loads of feet have been!
OP, the madness has to end somewhere, washing packets is too far, kids sneeze in each other's faces all day at school and life's too short to wash stuff that will be peeled anyway.

You don't need to use sandwich bags (I do) as some lunch bags come with a little sandwich sized box to hold just that.

Life is too short to wash yoghurts

You are crazy, but you seem happy

Please understand I was being sarcastic at the start of that last post

yabu

You wash yoghurt?

You have far to much free time, and you need help

Yy to shouldabeenwashinajug

Yes. Very valid point re environmental impact of little yogurt tubs. I concede that one entirely.

They're not an every day thing - just a special treat.

Re sandwiches holding together - on the days they don't get eaten they come home in a reasonable state.

When you say wash, do you mean a quick rinse? Or a soapy water scrub?

Yabu either way, but I just want to gauge quite how much.

I bet you're one of those people that soaks their lettuce in Milton aren't you?

YABU and strange. You wrap the sandwiches and don't wash yoghurts.

Bizarre

Sounds like you make remarkably robust sandwiches OP, glued together with peanut butter or something.

Yuck to lettuce in Milton (People don't really do that do they?).

And no, of course not soap. The same sort of wash you give an apple. A good rinse and a check over and a bit of a thorough rub, then dry with a clean tea towel.

You are a cruel mother as your sandwich will get curly ends. Wrap it it in kitchen paper.

Also have you considered pre emptive measures for stopping your dc from letting his friend lick his banana? Or swapping spoons halfway through lunch?

You are utterly barking but very funny so I like you

My mother used to make her own yoghurt and we had it in our packed lunches. It was revolting.

OP, now I understand the target market for this product

So not really getting rid of any germs then?

Yy to Milton lettuce!! I read about it on here! Quite a few people admitted to it!