.. to have still cooked the lasagne?

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Very proud of myself to have thrown together a huge lasagne from scratch while also working from home. Freshly cooked bechemel sauce, homecooked sauce .. I was putting on the final layer of pasta sheets ready for the oven and noticed 2 of those bloody tiny wheat mites crawling on them!!!

So there was already a layer of pasta sheets (from the same box) in the middle of the lasagne -and it would have been ruined if I had to have dug them out-

So ..... what would you have done?

I know this is so gross.

Wheat mites are tiny bugs that infest flour - also known as grain mites or weevils, if you see little specks of black moving in your white flour you need to check your cupboards. They are even in new bags from the shops sometimes.

On the subject of eating insects, there is a certain percentage allowed in peanut butter apparently.

How do you get wheat mites in lasagne sheets?? Are you sure it wasn't in the flour which you used to make the sauce??

My friend at work had a load of creatures fly out of a porridge pack once when she opened it releasing them into the office for weeks. She still ate the cereal! And she's very much alive!!

I couldn't eat it if I saw that, but there's probably nothing wrong with it. They can spread fungal spores and create mould that makes people a bit sick, but it's pretty low risk.

I suspect we all eat a fair amount of the little things. Easy to see on a big flat sheet of pasta, not so easy when they're hiding in shaped pasta, flour etc.

Ilike, the box of lasagne sheets was open and probably sitting in the press for a few months. Spotted one at the bottom of the box.

Definitely wasn't in the flour as that is in a sealed container.

Ilike, that porridge story is rank

haah, I know! And true!!

There's a lot of people here who need to go and have a closer look at the flour/pasta/rice/crackers/cereal/oats in their kitchen

The two most common things you will find in anything not sealed or over a couple of months old are flour mites (white pinprick sized moving dots) and booklice (psocids- more beige and about a mm long, distinct separation of head and body)

Don't get me to tell you about the time I didn't realise that the things in the salad bowl weren't caraway seeds but mouse droppings...

I would have eaten it and not told the family. I am sure we eat a number of bugs each day. Just breathing in on a summers day too.

Well I'd eat it, but then a fresh lasagne is the food of the gods!
A quick Google tells me they're harmless to people unless you're allergic to them, which you would apparently know by now as if you are then handling a contaminated product will give you itchy skin.
Apparently freezing kills them off and putting bay leaves in your cupboard will put them off as they don't like the smell.

I can't remember the volumes but we all eat insects regularly without realising it.

I'd have eaten it. Maybe I'm gross but hey-ho.

I'm assuming it was a meat-based lasagne? If so, not really seeing a problem here.

If it were a veggie lasagne, I would kind of see your point but would still consider you incredibly precious

I would have fed it to DH and DCs but not eaten it myself.

Cooked it and ensured the side which contains the mites was given to dh while I happily eat the non germy side.

I would have eaten but not told the fsmily, after all we eat dead animals everyday.

Boke! I would have binned it - irrational but couldn't eat it - and now due to this thread tomorrow I'm throwing out all my flour packets.

By the way OP I use crime fraiche and grated cheese rather than Bec Jamel - much less faff and just as nice.

Would have definitely cooked and eaten it no questions asked.

But then I have been known to use flour for cooking or baking knowing full well there's some flour mites in it

I'd have still served it.... to Ds and DH and made myself a salad ' on another diet kick love... enjoy your lasagne'

Tough one. If I'd gone to all the trouble of making the sauces and everything by hand...? God no. I think I'd have to cook it and serve it. I'd wait to see if anyone keeled over with an instant fit of the vomits first, and then move in for a bite. I am selflessness and heroism combined.

Apparently in the food industry there are acceptable amounts of insect parts and mouse-droppings that can be found in every set quantity of goods, and we all shovel loaves of bread and chocolate bars down our faces, soooo...

Ewww! I need to go and check all my flours and pastas.

Omg this thread is making me feel sick.

At least I might lose some weight if I can't eat anything!!

I couldn't eat it. Mind you, I haven't eaten lasagne in over 25 years since coming across something that looked like a maggot in the tomato sauce. It wasn't till then that I realised how many people I knew have lasagne as their go to dish for company...

I would've eaten it. Size wize, they're simply at the top end of the billions of organisms that will be in your food. They won't hurt you.

Wow I must be a freak. I wouldn't think twice about eating it and I'm a vegetarian