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.

I don't wash apples either. I buy them and give them straight to the boys to eat on the way home.

I'm sort of with the OP on principle - if the other solution is to wrap everything in plastic then I'd rather wash. Packaging waste depresses me muchly.
And I get the banana thing: it's not about germs as such, it's about pesticides and wee scurrying footprints.

I reckon you'd be better spooning yoghurt and fruit, cutted-up natch, into reusable, washable tubs OP. Reduces packaging at source and at home .

Bonkers.

Whatever floats your boat, honestly. Things in DC lunchbox get bashed badly so I can't imagine that mix of stuff in the lunchbox, anyway.
Most bacteria are good for you though, and small exposure to many of the mildly badly germs are good for you too. So your DH INBU either.

Water doesnt wash off pesticides

barking mrs!

I'm confused because you sound as if you enjoy the lunch making. That is mad. I spend a fortune on school lunches just to avoid making packed lunches.

You need one of these: laptop lunches
dd's lasted 4 years of junior school and is still in perfectly good condition.

Milton lettuce

Wierd, wrap sandwiches, give tube fromage frais for packups. No mess or fuss or spoon. Problem solved.

So you're rinsing, not washing... Then not only are you being weird you're also wasting your time. A splash under the tap will not remove anything from a banana skin, except maybe a spider that may have been clinging on to it.

Weird, just weird.

Cold water won't kill germs.

Wasting water

Get some Buzz Lightyear stickers
Stick them on the sectioned Lakeland lunchbox (or, even better, let your 3 year old stick them on)
Use it.

SilentBoob try these
www.pricerighthome.com/Toy_Story_Buzz_Lightyear_Glow_in_the_Dark_Stikarounds_50_Stickers/BUZ052.html

YABU for thinking that 'a good rinse' is going to do much in the way of getting rid of germs and dirt. Just get frubes - they're in a box so no one has sneezed on them - and buy a divided lunchbox where the sandwich lives on one side and the fruit and yoghurt on the other. Systema make good ones and you can always put stickers on it :)

X posted with other people with the same idea :o

My 18 year old DS never had a washed banana or yoghurt in his life - OMG how has he survived to adulthood without falling down with the plague!!!!

Too much time on your hands!
Mine have also made it to adulthood without washing them. Wrap the sandwich.

What about all the children who's cruel mothers dont do this who eat their lunch, touch the table which your DC then touches and then, depending on their age, probably puts their hands in their mouth? Or all the children who pick their noses, scratch their heads, don't wash after going to the toilet?

The kind of germs you would find on yoghurts are on all surfaces all the time. Its good for our immune system. And as you'll see on the other thread, many people wouldnt wash the apple!

I never wrap the sandwiches just cut them in half and put them in a half sandwich size tub. No packaging harmed in the making of my sandwiches.

Oh and yab weird

This is a funny thread

I particularly identified with the image of the lunch-box swinging antics - mine used to do that. And swap stuff