AIBU Bin rummaging 😡

[binratcherswife]

Changing username for this as quite frankly it’s embarrassing!

I’m not stickler for food dates. Don’t mind if biscuits, bread etc are out. However, I do tend to stick to use by’s for meat, yogurts etc. I might give slight leeway, but definitely think use by dates are there for a reason!

On the flip side, H is terrible. Thinks you should eat anything, even it is furry, stinks and with a use by date of 5 years ago.

My absolute bugbear is that he bin rummages. He actually rakes through the bin bag demanding to know why it’s been thrown out and ranting about ‘There’s nothing wrong with it.’ Does all the time.

Anyhow, this morning I have thrown creamy coleslaw out that is four dates out of date. I have just caught him eating it with his lunch- he has plucked it out of the bin 😡🤢. It’s honestly made me feel quite stabby.

So AIBU to think he’s a dirty bin ratching bastard with a stomach of steel or should I just give up and embrace the salmonella!

I would personally use my judgement. Things like natural yoghurt which are live with bacteria already - I would just pick off the mould and eat. Same with bread. I would try to use gone off milk to make paneer (which is what paneer used to be made of traditionally) but there’s usually a cut off for this so can be hit and miss. Things like cooked chicken / lentils / rice / beans etc I would still eat provided it hadn’t gone furry or slimy.

[quote binratcherswife]@TheMumblesofMumbledom i understand where you are coming from. I do use personal judgement with best before dates, however I was once extremely ill with salmonella to the point I was hospitalised- which is why I worry more. Things can be harbouring all sorts of nasties even if it looks and tastes ok.[/quote]
Maybe I'm quite lax because I have a cast iron stomach like your dh appears to have.

He will probably live to tell the tale. And if he does it will show that you were being wasteful.

@FenellaVelour

I keep hearing about these... Do you have 4 bins then?

So many bins!
One for food waste, one for general waste, one for mixed recycling, one for glass, one for garden waste. That’s in our area anyway (garden waste being optional).

Omg. Our council barely manages our 3! (Thanks fucking central government and your cunty cuts)

@FenellaVelour

I keep hearing about these... Do you have 4 bins then?

So many bins!
One for food waste, one for general waste, one for mixed recycling, one for glass, one for garden waste. That’s in our area anyway (garden waste being optional).

Yes we have the same bins. It's binmaggedon in our garden when it's really windy.

Lol at binmageddon.

Sorry for derail OP😂
@binratcherswife if he's never been sick, leave him to it🤷🏻 I eat some very questionable things sometimes too😁

You must throw away an awful lot of food for this to be an issue. I reckon I chuck out maybe 5 items a year that have gone past their date, and that’s usually because we tried it and no one liked it, so it got abandoned in the fridge. The thing to do is to keep an eye on the use by dates.

He actually rakes through the bin bag demanding to know why it’s been thrown out and ranting about ‘There’s nothing wrong with it.'

Your response to that bullshit should be "Do NOT question my decision to throw something out as if I am a child."

I'm a bit lax, but rummaging through a bin is revolting 🤢

[quote binratcherswife]@DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy I didn’t even know they were a thing!! We have general waste, garden and cardboard. I NEED one of those bins 😁😂[/quote]
Some councils mix the food and garden waste in the same bin.

What area are you in?

i need a food waste bin i considered a green cone but my neighbours attract rats that love the bottom of my garden so i dont want them any closer than that

I go by what it looks like and what it smells like, not by the date.

I've had 2 stomach upsets in 65 years, one was campylobacter caused by food I ate in pub and the second was norovirus, so my judgment can't be too bad.

I wouldn't rummage through the bin, but if he wants to eat out of date food, surely that's his choice?

I wouldn't like another adult telling me what I could and couldn't eat. If he wants to bin rummage then let him - it's not harming you?

If he's the only one that would eat it, why not just let him get on with it? If that was my husband is just let him crack on but tell him if he gets ill, he'll get fuck all sympathy from me.

But if you are dead set on throwing stuff away and want to prevent him retrieving it, a squirt of washing up liquid would do the job.

We put food waste into normal household one. Green isn't collected all year round

He is grim OP.
You maybe need to engage with recycling more tho?. Tip the food out, wash the tin and put it in the plastics bin.

Tin?? Wash the tub!!

Tbh the best way to prevent bin rummaging is just... Buy enough food and not to throw any out. Our food waste is now essentially just ends of veg etc and that's just ends I don't want for stock making😂 Some meat off cuts there and there. bit of a self praise there 😁

I thought this was going to be about the dumpster diving, you tube videos that are weirdly compelling for many school kids not admitting to having watched several myself, rather than walking smartly away

I am not sure I could stay married to someone like that. His behaviour would make my skin crawl and I wouldn't have any respect for him.

I think if it looks, smells and tastes fine then YABU. You don't have to eat it but if he wants to then don't throw it out

Yeah, this. Chill the little things.

If it really is off just squirt it with washing up liquid .
He wont eat that.

Stomach of iron. Bet he eats corner shop pies

Food security is about to become a major, major issue, even here in the (previously overfed) complacent west. The thing that astonishes me (parents were young kids during WWII) is how few people know how to check if something is still okay to eat - I can't remember not knowing how to double check if eggs are still okay to use, whatever it might say on the packaging, and the same with meat products, or dairy, or fruit and veg. This knowledge appears to have been lost in our over-sanitised, pre-packed world...

Where we live we have a biomass boiler of some kind with the local council, which is brilliant, they collect that weekly from what would have been the little composting bins and it gets turned into some kind of energy. Every now and then I forget though and put food into the main rubbish bin (only collected once a fortnight) and I live in terror of them finding out...!

Empty the food out of the packaging and put it in the brown food caddy and then surely he wouldn't remove it from that nasty thing?