To bin cooked spaghetti that's been sitting out for two days?

[Doowop1919]

Not a major problem but still, I'm being made to feel like I'm overreacting and "wasting food". Happy to be told I'm being unreasonable...

On holiday at a camping site (DH, mil, 2 DC).
I cooked spaghetti on Friday for pesto and there was some spaghetti leftover. I asked if mil / DH could pop it in the fridge whilst I put toddler to bed. Mil told DH it didn't need the fridge and instead, it's been sitting in the pot since Friday night (with the lid on).
Mil wants to feed the spaghetti to my boys tonight (4 yo, 16 months old) whilst we eat something different. I think the spaghetti should've been in the fridge and it should be binned.

So, Mumsnetters, am I being precious and unreasonable not to feed my kids spaghetti sitting out for two days? (It's just spaghetti with red peppers, no meat, no sauce).

Yabu - feed the children the spaghetti!
Yanbu - chuck it!

No way would I serve that 🤮

My mum is a war baby and my goodness - she never throws anything away. It’s frightening to be honest.
I have over ridden her occasionally and thrown away thawed warm prawns when her freezer was accidentally switched off
i only noticed when dog’s chicken was room temp rather than cold ( fridge )

Good grief, it's a handful of pasta, not wagyu steak! Chuck it and cook some fresh!

I am glad DH is on your side , there is no way I'd eat that esp with the temperature we have had this past few days.

Let MIL have it.

It’ll only take 10 minutes do knock up a fresh batch for you and the kids. Then you can all eat together.

😜

Why didn’t DH just put it in the fridge?

Although dried up 2 day old fridge spaghetti is equally unappetising.

Funny how MIL didn’t suggest she eat it.

I wouldn't feed that rancid old crap to my children. She can eat it if she wants.

I eat anything but I would draw the line at this. 48 hours out in this warm weather? I expect you will smell that it has started to ferment. Let her eat it if she really wants to.

Ugh, wouldn’t give it to a dog I hated.

YANBU. It's one thing being economical but quite another risking illness. That spaghetti would be grim.

Just come back from the park to cook fresh spaghetti. Mil couldn't believe I wasn't using the old stuff 😅 I told her straight I'm not feeding that to the kids and it will be bad. All I got back was "spaghetti? No! Spaghetti doesn't go bad like that"
She's lovely really but does tend to have a streak to her where she thinks she is always right about everything...

You'll all be happy to know my boys are currently being cooked fresh spaghetti!

Yes, it's really shocking actually. Mil's mum was in Dresden towards the end of the war, she must've been in her teens. They literally had next to no food. Mil will scratch a glass of jam out until it's see through. I never understood it. But I'm from the UK, and my grandparents were too small to remember the war...

And interestingly, everyone else has just come back and I've asked mil if I should keep the spaghetti for her. She's now said she didn't realise spaghetti could go that bad sitting out and will be more careful in future...
Bit of a breakthrough there!

So she wasn’t going to eat it herself? 🙄

My mother lived through the war as an adult with children to feed and she did not carry on like that!

On the German side?

I'm pretty lax on leftovers but that's too much for me. Pasta costs pennies anyway.

Having had food poisoning twice, 20 years apart, from reheated spaghetti that had been kept in the fridge, it would have been in the bin the minute everyone had finished.
I now won’t even order spaghetti in a restaurant, because most pre-cook it then “flash fry” in your sauce of choice. I’ve had food poisoning that way too!
Spaghetti and rice are so cheap there is literally no reason to ever keep either.

No, Italy actually. Naples to be precise which was bombed to hell and stripped of every conceivable scrap of food by the Germans. They didn't even have water. They were starving to death.