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 think you should give up now ladies. It's one of those aibu. You know..

Ianbu

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Might as well give up now, op's not listening rolls eyes

Rinsing in dettol solution won't work on those pesky germs

you need to steep stuff for ages to get the proper germ oblivion effect

I suppose I'd be hounded off this thread if I pointed out that one of these posts is crying out for an apostrophe indicating possession?

[pedant alert]

If you are that concerned about germs then why don't you get a small re-usable sandwich sized plastic box to put her sarnie in inside her lunch box? Think of all the unnecessary detergent you are using washing banana skins/yoghurt pots - not good for the environment!
I wouldn't put a manky looking yoghurt pot next to an unwrapped sandwich but then I would leave a sandwich unwrapped (how does the salad etc not fall out or do you only do moist fillings?). If I did put an unwrapped sandwich in a lunchbox I would be quite happy to put a clean-looking yoghurt pot next to it without getting myself in a tizz over invisible germs - which will also be all over the table your dd will rest her sandwich on between bites, and the chair she pulls out to sit on etc etc.

Since I don't wash anything unless it's visibly muddy or I have visitors this thread is a bit irrelevant.
Anyway DD2 is likely to stuff her apple or yoghurt pouch in the front pocket of her rucksack. After 4 years of school life that ain't clean

A Ha! - secretmincerinser - why do you rinse your mince?

See, funnily enough I don't think I am Frantic Germ Lady. We have a dog who is currently sitting on the sofa sharing a biscuit with my 3yo. They think I haven't noticed. And we go to the beach most weekends where my children have a happy time playing which whichever dead thing is their latest pet. My children are welcome to eat as many worms and as much mud as they deem appropriate over the course of their childhood. My daughter has a blankie that is frankly a bio-hazard, as she throws the most tremendous tantrums every time I wash it and lately I've not had the will...

I do wash eggs and pop cans though. Why wouldn't you? They are DIRTY!

You could wrap your child's sandwich in a cotton hankerchief, OP - get a pack of mens hankies with his initial on them, and they can go through the wash with the rest of the household stuff. No extra plastic packaging, the wrapping will hold the sandwich together, and can be lightly dampened to keep the sandwich fresh, and will protect the sandwich from the yoghurt pot and banana germs.

Oh - and you are completely barking, SilentBoob - but in a very amusing and lovely way.

This is weird.

If you're worried about the environment you can always wrap the sarnies in paper.

I felt sorry for a little boy the other day. He was running along the playground, trying to make it to his line in time and his lunchbox burst open...and his unwrapped sandwich fell on the ground

You nestle pots into your kids sandwiches? YABU.

How do you wash pop cans if you are out and about for the day and stop for an unplanned can of pop on a walk or something?

So a lightly dampened, initialled cotton handkerchief is not completely mad, but rinsing a banana is? Just to clarify.

Have you shown your DH this thread yet SilentBoob?

I wash fruits (except bananas/oranges...as they have a peel that humans generally do not eat) not because of the germs but because of the chemicals that might be used to grow them.

a bit strange not to wrap/box/bag the sandwich IMHO.

I am struggling to think why you would wash eggs? Either you boil them, in which case they have at least 3 mins in boiling water or you crack them open and discard the shell. Am I missing something?
A pop can is only something I might buy when out to drink there and then.I have never seen queues of people in the ladies washing cans!

Everyone used to wrap their lunch in a cloth hanky in the good old days ...

Usually it was a red spotted one and they tied it on a stick to swing jauntily over their shoulder.

Or maybe that was their belongings?

Like Dick Whittington.

This phenomene is commonly known as an Avalunch

at the idea of washing comestibles in a public loo sink. Have you ANY IDEA how revolting the surface of a basin in a public lavatory is??? HAVE YOU?

Never heard of cellophane or napkins?

So, you save on packaging and waste water...

On the germ side, I'd rather teach DS to eat his sandwich holding the wraper. Do you honestly think his hands are germ free? :o

(I wash eggs because they come out of chicken vaginas. And often have poo on them.)

Good grief-I used to collect eggs with my aunt-never once thought of washing them unless something was sticking to them.