To eat the rest of the lettuce

[ViaRia01]

TW: maggots.

I will try to just keep this to the point.

Had left leftover lunch in son’s lunchbox since Friday and when I opened it up there were maggots (yuck). Feeling queezy, I got it sorted out and washed up and the lunch box is back in use.

Friday was the first time ever that son has lettuce in his lunch box (and he had left sandwich crusts so some bits of lettuce were festering over the weekend). I am thinking that the eggs travelled into school on said lettuce leaf and that is the source of the maggots. We still have the same lettuce in the fridge and was planning to eat tonight.

Is it ok to do that or do I just chuck the whole thing out? Obviously I will wash thoroughly before consuming. And I will NEVER leave lunch box leftovers festering over the weekend.

Feel a bit gross about the whole thing so please be kind :)

Just wash it and you’ll be fine.

I would throw it out - I wouldn't fancy lettuce after that!

50/50 so far. Thanks for replying - hoping a few more will come along to see which way the vote swings.

I think if I had seen that the source was definitely the lettuce, I’d be less able to co time eating it. As it’s just an assumption/ guess, I can trick my mind into not being too put off by it.

I’d have thrown the lunchbox and then the lettuce tbh

Maggots would be from meat than lettuce. Unless you mean slugs?

Maggots more likely to be from a fly laying eggs on any of the leftovers, and them turning into maggots over the weekend, than coming from a refrigerated lettuce. Are there any maggots on the rest of the lettuce ?

No maggots on the rest of the lettuce but I will wash thoroughly just in case. The only meat in the box was a slice of ham. That’s makes me feel a bit rank though as that had been in the fridge (so was there a fly in my fridge?) or just a fly landing on the lunchbox while DS was eating, laying eggs which were then sent back home to us in the box?

Definitely maggots, not slugs. I guess this makes me feel better about the lettuce itself but slight more queezy about the situation as a whole.

Eat the lettuce!

The lettuce is fine. Just wash it.

I think the fly and ham is most likely. Wash the lettuce, eat the lettuce.

Or son left lunchbox open and unattended long enough for fly to lay eggs before putting the lid back on

Chuck the lettuce