To throw this food shopping away???

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I ordered my shopping from Morrisons via Amazon prime and one of the bags had a massive fly in it.
I know flies are everywhere etc but that's pretty gross I think? It was stuff like berries, milk, hot dogs etc but I don't have any anti bac wipes and the idea of eating food that a flies been crawling and pooping and whatever else all over seems pretty grim, Aibu tk throe ther bag of shopping away?
I do have a tendency to over react so interested what others would do
(I don't particularly have the money to be throwing bags of shopping away but k also don't want us to get sick, and I don't have any anti bac wipes in to give it a wipe over)

It's the OCD talking. You do not need to throw the food away and NO harm will come from eating it.

Just wash the fruit, it will be fine. Milk is in a sealed container. If you really are that worried, just put some washing up liquid in a bowl of hot water and use a cloth to wipe the outside of the packaging bottles, cartons etc.

Please don't throw it away. Confused about hot dogs!

It’ll be fine, honestly. You can wash the fruit just with water (no need for anti-bac wipes) and everything else is protected by it’s packaging.

Yes bin it if you feel that's the best option. It's your property, you've paid for it, you can do with it as you please. I'd be onto the supermarket though, if you kick off enough you might get a refund.

Supermarkets are increasingly removing "best before" and "use by" dates from goods and encouraging us to use our own judgement as when to throw stuff out. That's all the OP is suggesting doing, don't see why anyone else has an objection to that.

This is your OCD talking. All you need to do is wash fruit before you eat it. Food packaging doesn’t need to be washed in any way and certainly not with antibacterial wipes. Nobody ever got ill from handling a cornflake packet that once had a fly on it.

Don't be daft. There are flies all over my kitchen in the hot weather. What are you going to eat? Hermetically sealed food that you only open and consume immediately and shop every day?

You're not going to get sick. Wash the fruit before you eat it. Everything else is in containers. You're absolutely fine.

Also I mean this kindly OP but we do need some exposure to "dirt", it's good for us.
Give the fruit a rinse before it's eaten and it'll be fine.

It's a massive waste of food and money. The supermarket can't prevent a fly getting in a shopping bag. Don't be absurd.

What, no of course it isn’t what OP is suggesting doing! She’s talking about throwing away perfectly good food for absolutely no good reason. Binning food that’s rotten is a very different thing altogether. And of course she shouldn’t ‘get on to’ the supermarket about a fly! 🙄🙄

Even if the fly touched the fruit and you didn't wash it before eating, you'd be unlikely to get sick. People eat grapes straight from the shelf all the time in shops, and suffer no ill effects.

A quick wash with water of the unpackaged stuff should put your mind at rest op. Flies are everywhere. They land on food we've left out. No harm done here thus far...

Good that you've recognised it is probably OCD talking.

Why didn’t you mention ocd in your op?

There's all sorts of bugs around/on fruit. That's why we wash it.
Dettol spray and cloth works if you really want to wipe your stuff down.

She mentioned it literally 3 minutes later.

Well it’s important so should have been in the op otherwise it looks like it’s added when people don’t agree…

No it doesn’t. Well maybe to people who are a bit OTT on the AIBU/‘drip feed’ thing. Which gets incredibly tedious. Nobody cares whether or not you ‘caught’ a ‘drip feed’.

Sometimes people are genuinely just asking a question/looking for reassurance.

Don't be daft. If a fly has got into a bag of shopping that's hardly the supermarket's fault and is in no way grounds for a refund.

Anything that is containers will be fine. Anything else wash, but then you should be washing fruit and stuff anyway.

Babe do you think no flies have touched tour food from growth to packaging to transport to shop shelf to delivery?

Grow up and stop wasting food. Give it a wash and it's fine.

Flies will have crawled on your fruit as its being grown anyway.

The food will be fine, no need to throw it away.

Sorry forget the 'grow up' ad I see you have OCD. Yes you're over reacting Op.

I’ve just picked and eaten 4 raspberries from my bush in the garden. I ran them under the tap first. I’m sure there will have been all sorts on them before they were picked.

You will be fine.

You should wash your fruit and vegetables anyway.

if you are really panicking, wipe down the packaging. You don’t need anti-bacterial wipes. A damp cloth would be sufficient. If you are really panicking you could use a mild solution of bleach or rubbing alcohol.