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'm confused they are to young to take a butty out of a butty bag but can open yogurts and bananas?

I bleach my whole weekly shop in the bath before drying it andn nuggling it in my fridge and cupboards and larder.

nuggling and snuggling it

Unwrapped sandwiches - bleurgh, dry & nasty.

I save my nuggling and snuggling for ... well... not bananas!!

Do you know what we used to do in assembly? We used to lick our fingers and clean the soles and outsides of our shoes with them. Of course, one fingertip's worth of spit didn't clean an entire shoe, even when you're 7, so we would put the same finger back in our mouth and carry on.

Bleurgh.

I think you are damaging their immune system-probably the reason that mine have made it to adulthood despite the danger!

Everything in DS's lunchbox goes in its own little reusable fabric snack sack that I made especially. No silly washing of pots or bananas required.

I don't give him yoghurt for school, makes the lunchbox dosgustingly yoghurty by the end of the day. He doesn't like bananas at school.

Do you wahs crisp packets too?

I don't use bags for dd (3) sarnies but always pop it into a perfect sandwich-sized box. No unnecessary packaging and it stays together. Not hard for a 3yo to pop open a lid lol.

It has come to my attention that there are also mad people who indulge in mince rinsing.
What is the rationale for this? Why do we need to do mince rinsing?
Or rinse mincing come to that?

I have been told to wash coke cans etc because people in the warehouses have been known to pee on them.

Is that why cans are sometimes sticky???

deadbody surely those snack sacks are only good for dry foods? Don't they get all crumby in the corners? They're very cute but practical?? Not very.

I know someone who washes eggs

You're worrying too much. I would not let outside-of-banana-germs concern me, as I have watched my children in action. Maybe you have clean children who don't roll in mud, put their fingers in their mouths all the time or lick random surfaces for no good reason. See BertieBott's post above.

If the outside of a banana is the worst thing they come into contact with all day I'd be surprised.

Also, clingfilm.

DD has been known to eat her sandwiches off the dog. She appears to have survived this < books fast track ticket to hell>

Coke comes in shrink wrapped plastic, how could anyone pee on them? There was an apocryphal story about rats in warehouses on coke cans, but it's all nonsense.

That snack pack woman is BARKING. Why on earth would you need a 'change' from tupperware boxes, which fulfil the function perfectly, in place of something that could only be inadequately wiped out? Imagine a tuna, mayo and sweetcor sandwich in one of those bags.

OP - get one of those lunch boxes that has partitions and keep the sandwiches separate from the toxic bomb that is an unwashed yogurt pot.

And I bet they do come apart, if they are not in a perfect sized partition.

You are disgusterous.
My friend at school bought unsecured lunch, and I used to heave when I saw it, coming-apart-sandwich embedded with cake and a spoon, apple covered in crumbs and bits of sandwich filling, cake with hard boiled egg on it, it was vile.
Oh and those ice packs make the bread damp if your not careful.

I do however have very weird sandwich issues, I really hate other peoples sanwiches they are almost always gross, I worked in playgroup plus for a year and the sight of all the poor childrens hideous lunches still haunts me.

You don't have to use sandwich bags, I wrap the DCs in piece of kitchen towel (wasn't there a thread recently asking what people actually did with kitchen towel, well that's what we do with ours!) that way they also have a napkin without me seeming to be far too middle class by actually putting a napkin in their packed lunch...

I think more needs to be done about this issue. What if I another child sneezes nears your DC's open lunchbox? Where are you then, mother? Where are you then!!!??

sorry i think you mad not to wrap the sandwich! if you don't want to use extra packaging then put the sandwich in a little box inside the lunchbox, tbh i'd be worried about the sandwich falling apart and filling falling out otherwise.

I am sure foil could be popped in the dishwasher and re-used...