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.

Nothing wrong with eating wasp eggs IMO. Stomach acid kills most nasties, certainly more than a rinse would.

You're a loony! :o

I don't rinse my mince Salmon. I nicked the nn from a thread about someones dh who rinses mince. I might have to change my name though as it does make me look like a paranoid mince rinser.

:O

I'm beginning to think that this is the same poster who irons everything... ;-)

Surely everyone washes the outside of a melon?

Em no

So we can add melon skin onto the list of rather odd things that you like to eat, along with egg shells?

What's this washing fruit nonsense? How odd.

(But not as odd as washing eggs - that's just fucking barmy)

Maryz my mum is a clean obsessive and regularly bleaches things. But when I was cooking something with mushrooms and moaned that I'd not done a very good job of getting the dirt off she told me to "put a bit more black pepper in, then we won't be able to tell what's dirt and what's pepper" :o

I sometimes put leaflets (like tesco booklet on mobile phones etc) on top of wet puddles on supermarket conveyor belt in case it is chicken juice! And I always wrap chicken in extra cling film before putting in my fridge in case of leaking juice. Am i alone in being a chicken juice obsessive ?

But I don't rinse yoghurt!

at washing bananas and yoghurts (and not wrapping/boxing sandwiches - what strange sandwich-making methodology results in sandwiches which don't fall apart under extreme shaking ?)

DSIL is the food police and on a recent visit (without DSIL, fortunately!) DNiece was more than somewhat at our not washing strawberries. I explained firmly that it was different when you buy them straight from the farm rather than a supermarket and I cannot be bothered to wash soft fruit as fast as my DC eat it in season.

It had never occurred to me to wash melons -I wonder if that is remiss-I have fed them to visitors.

SilentBoob I never wrap the sandwich, so am with you on that but for the sake of the environment (and because it's nicer and healthier) I just buy big tubs of yoghurt and put it into washable reusable baby food pots for a packed lunch.

Wouldn't wash a banana, it would go along separately on the outside of the lunch box and due to the risk of squashing is probably best kept as an at home fruit.

I don't wash fruit, veg, salad, mince, chicken... I don't use antibacterial sprays. I often eat after mucking out the horse. Sometimes with a dog in my lap. Occasionally with the horse sharing my lunch
Stomach of cast iron here. Never had food poisoning - although I did have a bout of norovirus last year

Lueji 'I hope not when you put them in the fridge'.....putting eggs in the fridge shortens their use by date.
SilentBoob 'Surely everyone washes the outside of a melon?' WHY WHY WHY?????

re: eggs. if you insist in cleaning them you should wipe them with a clean damp cloth and never actually put them in water.... Egg shells are porous - stuff can pass in and out through it (that is how baby chickens breathe). So if you were to run them under water that goes in ... especially never use soap as that goes inside the egg - bleurgh...

Actually that's the same principle as lovehandles mentions - as the shell is porous putting an egg in a closed environment like a fridge means that they absorb fridge air which isn't as nice as real normal air.. hence you should try and use 'em up quicker...