and hugely wasteful to throw away bread

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Is it very stupid of me and very wasteful too if, after making a sandwich i notice a small patch of green mould and rather than just cut out the mould i don't eat the sandwich at all. Dh can't understand why i won't just cut out the mouldy bit. I'd be interested to know what others do.

I cut mould off cheese. With bread I search through the loaf to see if I can find a slice without mould if I have no way of getting a fresh loaf, otherwise it gets binned. This is only if it has just 'gone' not if it has been sitting for a few days.

I don't use it for the birds, bread is not recommended for feeding birds as it can bloat them and make them ill, including ducks, swans etc.

I usually keep a pack of part baked rolls just in case.

I'd chuck the whole thing, same with fruit! I'd maybe scrape the mouldy of hard cheese but tbh I hardly ever buy a block of cheese (am lazy, it comes pre grated!)

I must have a super sensitive mouth/nose because for me things are always 'off' a day earlier than for Dh. He'd be eating the 'off' bread and not taste it at all.

I had the worst food poisoning due to eating 'around' the mould of some bread. Never again. It gets chucked now, it's just not worth the risk.

If you saw it after you had made the sandwich there was a chance that there might have been more which also hadn't seen initially which got rubbed together with/on other ingredients.

You're not actually meant to just cut the mould off bread - something to do with the type of mould and the bread structure that the mould spores can be all thru the bread not just the bits you can see.

Cheese is fine to cut off the lump tho.

Depends on the colour of the mould - eat white, pick off green, bin if red.

I'd bin a whole loaf but not a block of cheese. Cheese is expensive.

I'm a bit of a bugger for scraping mould off things and eating it anyway (then feeling dodgy and trying not to catch DH's 'i told you so' look) but I find bread tends to taste fusty if you pick the mould off so I tend to chuck it. If it's already in my lunchbox in sandwich form though and it's just a bit mouldy in the bum crack bit at the top then I'd probably still eat it though

I freeze my loaves so they last as long as I need them to - I get slices out as and when I need them :)

I don't even eat it if I can smell the change in the bread, which can happen before mould grows. DH just cuts it off unless there's more than 2 slices with mould on. I refuse as I can't do it. The same with butter, cheese, pate... and if yoghurts look odd then I won't eat them. Pretty sure it's a neurological thing for me though.

No I'd never cut the mould off of bread I tend to make bread and butter pudding when the bread is past its best (but not mouldy) stage. If the bread is dry it soaks up the custard better.

Urgh you'll give yourself food poisoning doing that - it's really not good, and I say this as someone with a cast iron stomach who'll cheerfully eat all sorts of things past their sell by date.

However I exercise a bit of caution with it and don't eat spoiled food - if you can see mould, it's spoiled, and the whole lot needs to go.

If you find mouldy bread a problem a lot, try swapping to stuff you've baked yourself or from the bakery - it tends to go hard rather than mouldy, so can be frozen when it gets to that bit, then revived as toast or as the PP above me said, bread and butter pudding.

The whole lot would go in the bin, there's a smell off it once it starts to mould, even if it's just a little of the white mould. Stomach turning!

Plus, no one wants to get accused of witchcraft.

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Bread in my house lives in the freezer and we just get out what we need as and when, I even make our packed lunches with frozen bread and stuck them in the fridge for the morning.
If however I did find a tiny bit, I'd consider gauging it out and carrying on with toasting it but probably not make a sandwich.

YANBU. I accidentally bit into mouldy toast once - nearly knocked me sick

I wouldn't eat it, I would chuck it out on the bird table for the birds of throw it away.

the bread would either go out for the birds or in the compost bin, the bit in the middle of the sandwich might still be eaten.

Freeze bread if not planning to eat all of it or turn non-mouldy bread into bread pudding.

Pleased to see that i've been doing the right thing. Now to convince Dh.

I would cut mold from a block of cheese but any bread with mold goes straight in the bin.

Only real food waste in our house is bread. I'm always binning it and definitely wouldn't want mouldy bread!

didnt some dude sniff moldy bread once and the mold made him really sick? i just have some vague memory of seeing something in the news about it messing up his face or something?
Toss the bread you cant see all the mold that's growing and not all of it is penicillin

If the mould is just a few spots on a loaf I'll cut off the offending areas and eat - never been ill yet.

If you toast the offending slices the green goes brown anyway so you can't see it.

Mild doesn't taste nice but I eat Stilton and that taste lovely

I can't actually cut the bread once it's moldy as it's to hard