Think I'm going to be sick!

[FlatOnTheHill]

I know its very sweet when kids come home from school with a tupper wear box containing a pizza, cakes, or biscuits that they have made in cooking lesson.
But AIBU in looking at the contents and feeling totally sick?
The thought of dirty hands, maybe dirty school work top and utensils and the tupperwear box sitting around all day in the school bag with the contents getting warm and sweaty. Omg its just rank.
Does anyone else pretend to eat their share of the contents but guiltily chuck them in the bin

You might want to stay away from sandwich shops and all the restaurants where you can't see straight into the kitchen...

I'd just eat it to be honest. It would really hurt my dcs feelings if I didn't.

I wouldn't eat it. Maybe a cake made by a DC who was old enough to be reliable in the hygiene department, but aside from that, no and absolutely not anything made by a primary age child. No, no way.

Secondary school ok as DD clean freak primary & nursery yes the pretend oh that tastes yummy. DS is good at hand washing but also a sly nose picker. I just hate these school home made cake sales every other fecking week and heart is in mouth when Cake monster DS insist on buying one which I wouldn't if it wasn't for worthy cause.

Pizza is hardly going to make you sick - people eat it cold all the time! I always leave it out and eat it for breakfast!

ghostyslovesheep reminds me of the time my daughter made pineapple upside down cake , she forgot to take her own dish in so school lent her a glass pyrex one , looked lovely , tasted of washing up liquid !
Clearly hadn't been rinsed by whoever used it previously ! At least it was germ free !
That went in the bin but we've had some lovely stuff , today , shortbread hearts

My kids would eat anything nice they had made before they got home so the only stuff that made it home they wouldn't eat so neither would I lol

Fraid I would eat it every time. Why would school work be in the same tupperware box? But I'm a slattern

Don't they normally have a double lesson of cooking in the afternoon? We used to and then brought it straight home. Ignoring the fact on the way home we used to have egg and flour fights

I am a terrible emetophobe and have awful anxiety around food hygiene, use by dates etc.

DD brings stuff home from primary. Muffins, scones, bread for example and I eat them every time. They're ruthless about hygiene. I've been and helped them cook. All creations are made in the last lesson of the day and usually still warm. The ingredients are always stored appropriately. They're better than I am at food hygiene tbh.

Boak! Outer home ec department was vile. They gave you cold water and watered down washing up liquid(very watered down) to wash up with. The bowls in cupboard were always a bit greasy as a result. The chopping boards were kept under the desk and were next to you feet so any outside germs would be all over them. I wouldn't touch anything from that class.

Hermoine
Please re-read. Its the fact the kids prob dont wash their hands and you dont know if the school kitchen is clean. As someone else said, nose picking, and ill add bum scratching etc. Thats what im talking about. I like cold pizza by the way.

peppa that story made me sad!
My DS came home and handed me his sports bag. He apologised and said I tried to be careful but I think some of it fell out, I've made spicy pasta just for you.
When he was upstairs I opened the bag, pasta and sauce all squelched on the p.e kit and inside the sweaty trainers.
I've scooped it all out and put it back in the tub, he appeared asking me if it looked OK. His face, so worried, told him it looked lovely and I'd have it later.
I won't be eating it later but he's going to think I have!

Volup
No one said school work would be in tupperwear box
So wish people would read the thread before commenting. Its the same on all threads. And no im not a germ freak. I remember all the equipment at school with old egg stuck,to it and greasy.

Part of the cooking lesson involves food hygiene so I always eat it. I wonder how many people who bin this perfectly good food put their mouths on drinks cans or only wash grapes and apples in water. Probably way more germs lerking on those than on any cakes from school.

My parents never ate what I made in Home Ec. I didn't mind. I thought eating food at kiddy parties was grim even as a kid and even now don't like buffets.

No guilt here. My daughter used to bring it home and say, don't eat that, so it always went in the bin. What a waste of time, effort and money

Unless you have a problem with immunity then it's unlikely to harm you. But I do empathise - I had to leave the kitchen to retch (I wasn't sick) last week when DS was showing me something he'd made at work experience. I felt very guilty and tried to play it down, but by the time I got back he'd eaten the bits he likes and put the rest in the compost.

Sadly his dad was out - we don't call him Dustbin for nothing! Sometimes we even do a pedal bin gesture as DH does like his leftovers! In my defence I am on long-term medication that makes me retch and sometimes vomit at various smells, in a way I never did in my healthy days.

Tomato
Out of interest i only wash grapes in water but still worry? What else can i was them in. Ive washed apples in washing up liquid before. Purely because of pesticides.

Good grief what a bunch of wimps you all are.

The food has been cooked you know.

Poor kids, making food and their parents turn their noses up at it.

In primary school I never ate a single thing that the DC's made (usually decorated biscuits or fairy cakes). I used to call them 'snob cakes' and DC's used to think it was funny that I'd recoil at them. I have eaten Apple crumble my DD made in secondary school but I'd lectured her on hand washing first.

Complete paranoia. Anti bac'ing everything in sight is just OTT and really unnecessary.

I'd eat it, no question.
I eat stuff my toddler cooks, and have never ever been ill!
I took stuff home from school all the time and mum always ate it in front of me, making all the right noises (hero woman, as it can't all have been nice!) and it really made me feel good when she did. It gave me oodles of confidence in my cooking and I am now an amazing cook stealth boast so, you know, might be good for them!

Compared to some on here I probably have frightening hygiene levels, but we never get stomach bugs, and neither do the many friends who have eaten here!!

Flat - my dear dad used to refuse my school-cooked food for the same reasons and he was very open about it
now I'm grown up I don't blame him

Op I wash salad stuff in salt and berries. Not sure if it does anything however I am a school cook and that's what I was taught to do when I started.