To not want to eat food delivered to a bin?!

[PurpleCurtain]

Ordered some cereal bars in bulk that were delivered today by Royal Mail. I was in, but feeding my newborn and didn't make the door. They delivered it - to my brown bin, which is inside a bin store to the front of my house. The last things put in there were manure and very mouldy flowers.

DH thinks there's no problem - they are individually wrapped and then in cardboard box and he has thrown the box. I don't want to eat them or frankly have them in my house, and feel completely bemused at the lack of hygiene standards from Royal Mail. Am I being unreasonable?

I think you're getting an unnecessarily hard time tbh. Yanbu for that reason

@PumpkinKlNG

I do think the comments are harsh, I wouldn’t want to eat it from the bin either, the recycling bin probably but if it delivered to my general waste bin I wouldn’t eat them, surprised so many would!

Why not? Seriously.

Please explain why you wouldn't ear food that was in an individually sealed flow packaged and then packaged in a box with other flow packaged items and sealed. And then put into another cardboard box for transport.

What would make it unfit for consumption?

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

really? Individually wrapped food in a box from a bin? Wow.

MOULD not mold.

@Confusedandshaken

MOULD not mold.

💯

*eat food

Please take them to a food bank OP.

It's a stupid place for Royal Mail to put them but they're absolutely edible, don't waste this food

(clearly now need to put locks on the bin store)

😂🤣😂

@Embroidery

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

I really rather doubt that

It may not be the best place to put it but they're fine! It wouldn't cross my mind that anything was wrong with them, you also should have got them out a lot earlier if you were worried about mould infiltrating them

Nothing penetrates the foil/film bag they are sealed in
That’s why keep so fresh

@Embroidery

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

No, you really wouldn't.

I would still eat them as the food hasn’t come in to contact, only the packaging. However I would speak to the sender and just highlight what has happened. I work in the parcel delivery area and we have to speak to the drivers if they did something like this. Also pop a note on the bin store when you know something Is due to Say not to be left here for hygiene reasons.

I don’t know, it’s yucky to me, same way I wouldn’t get a box out of the bin if I accidentally threw it in🤷‍♀️ I wasn’t the one who said I would rather starve btw but I wouldn’t eat it willingly.

FFS!

Mumsnettery gone mad.

They shouldn’t have put them in a bin but not eating food wrapped in multiple layers is unreasonable.

Totally unacceptable to put ANY parcel inside a bin.

I know people say food is expensive, but the fact that so many people would waste it after it being in numerous payers with top layer coming into contact with something "yucky", says the opposite

@Embroidery

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

why are you lying?

Here’s me thinking they’d shoved a Domino’s or a Chinese takeaway in there

You’ll live

@Georgyporky

Totally unacceptable to put ANY parcel inside a bin.

Why?

Hi OP.

I’ve looked through a few of your previous threads and you definitely have some anxiety regarding germs/health. Please speak to your GP if you haven’t… it’s no way to live especially not with a newborn. I speak from experience x

@PumpkinKlNG

I don’t know, it’s yucky to me, same way I wouldn’t get a box out of the bin if I accidentally threw it in🤷‍♀️ I wasn’t the one who said I would rather starve btw but I wouldn’t eat it willingly.

Yeah really yucky 🙄

Is anyone else trying to think of a cereal bar that comes loosely wrapped in paper?