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.

Yes but you don't eat the shell - or do you?

And you cook the egg.

YABU and a bit bonkers

I wrap the sandwiches so they stay fresh and together.

Is your DH always right?

That would drive me barmy

But you dont eat the egg shell do you?

Even more

Yuck to damp hanky sandwich.

I wash cans of drink, and carry straws in my handbag (pilfered from M&S foodhall) for can emergencies.

YANBU

I contracted Clostridium Difficile which causes severe diarrhoea which is usually found in hospitalised patients who are taking antibiotic medication. But I had not been near a hospital and was not on antibiotics. I had only been shopping in the supermarket. So was it on the shopping trolley? Or was it on food packaging? I will never know. So I do wash foodstuff and packaging included in a packed lunch.

Read about Clostridium en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_difficile

good grief what an unnecessary palaver

Bonkers. Just wrap the sandwich in foil or cling film. If you choose foil it can be recycled - sadly ds's school have this nasty habit of sending all the packaging and empty yoghurt pots home, allegedly so you can check what your children have eaten but I'm darn sure it's just so they don't have to deal with the rubbish. My council recycles yoghurt pots as well so I don't think ds's packed lunch is environmentally unfriendly.

I don't wash eggs, however you cook them you either take the shells off or boil them, so what's the point?

DO hate people who don't wash their hands properly though - the sort of slatterns who either don't do it at all or wave their hands under the tap without any soap. Yuck yuck yuckety yuck. I know a GP who (I hope when he's not at work) doesn't wash his hands after a wee 'as urine is sterile'. Presumably it's not occurred to him that skin is not sterile, nor are his hands, nor is the door handle or flush...

DH is NOT always right, and neither is he right on this matter. I am still right and he is now wrong in the company of 100 Mumsnetters.

SilentBoob - dampened, initialled cotton hankie is pretty barking - just not as barking as washing fruit and yoghurt pots. But it was meant as a suggestion of an eco-friendly way to wrap a sandwich, without using clingfilm etc. Obviously a tupperware pot for the fruit/yoghurt/sandwich is a far less barking suggestion.

I do admire your determination, SilentBoob. Barking, funny and stubborn - you are the perfect mumsnetter!!

OP you'll be pleased your DCs don't have lunch where I work then (pre-school children). We operate using the 3 second rule - if food gets dropped on the floor, as long as we swoop on it straightaway they get to eat it None of them have been ill as a result!

By the way you are the only person I've come across who doesn't wrap sandwiches - they all do it, trust me ...

Ugh Ugh Ugh.
No one in their right mind puts a sandwich in a lunchbox without protection (bag, tupperware etc)
No one in their right mind uses the word 'Nestle' in a post and doesn't expect to get flamed

I would put the sandwich in a reusable paper bag. But then my children were capable of opening a paper bag by school age....

Should also say we always help to open sandwich bags, clingfilm, foil etc, if they can't do it themselves - but most of them do and they're only 3.

I have never washed fruit in my life.
Dcs have never ever had upset stomach/vomiting and they are in their teens.

Washing eggs?
Is that like washing chicken, where mostly what happens is that you splash chickeny bacteria all over the sink, draining board and taps, and cannot begin to destroy any pathogens by 'washing' a chicken anyway?

No, you're not right, you're crazy! Just use a sandwich bag.

Truly madly deeply bonkers. Great thread though to cheer up a wet Sunday.

I don't need to use a sandwich bag. Because I wash the yogurt pot.

Two words. School dinners.

Problem solved.

Mrsrobrrtduvall have they ever had worms though?

Because that's how you get them , from unwashed fruit & veg

I'd put the sandwich in a bag or foil and wash the yogurt pot and fruit.

YABU for not wrapping/bagging the sandwich. :)

i use baking paper, i think that's what it's called, it's brown. wrap up sandwiches in that like a present.

feel less guilty about landfill