To have thrown out this lettuce?

[rebelmum72]

Ok, I am not generally squeamish, and I do think it's better to not use pesticides on our fruit and veg etc etc

However:

whilst cutting up the farmshop-bought iceberg lettuce for dinner tonight, I came across a rather large worm nestled snugly in between the leaves.

It looked at me, I looked at it.

And I decided we'd be having cucumber salad with our dinner tonight

Whole head lettuce promptly went into the bin, worm went out into the garden where it is no doubt wondering at the mildness of the November weather, compared to the temperature of my fridge's veg compartemnt, where it had been since Thursday!!

So, AIBU to have wasted the lettuce?

Yes.

He lived in one part of it.

oh dear. fear yes UABU. could you just have washed it, after all the bug free lettuce probably had a few worms on it in its short life!

don't judge yourself too harshly on this one though.

A bit silly if there was only one worm.

I bought a lettuce once that I did throw away because the whole thing was infested with little flies - no matter how often I washed the leaves there were always more. That really grossed me out so it went in the bin!

Yes, I've had the millions-of-flies thing too, but that really was unwashable.

I'm feeling a bit hypocritical, as I thought I could be more blasé about it and not have it bother me.

Yes YABU. I would have eaten it.
You could have fed dh and the children, they wouldn't have known
Or cooked it if you were bothered, great recipe for lettuce risotto on here.
My poor dh has often found a caterpillar in his organic brocolli I serve up .

YABU, I fear! I would have washed it thoroughly and used it.

And if I ever decide a piece of fruit or veg is too gruesome to be eaten, it goes in the compost, not the bin.

If only there were a [smug emoticon]

We found a LIVE moth INSIDE a pepper on holiday this year. Ate the pepper after it had had a good wash. Also got a cabbage in my veg bag once that was infested with caterpillars. Hundreds of the wee buggers were crawling all over the walls in my kitchen. Rinsed that and ate it too. I once ate half a raspberry that had half a worm in it... it kind of put me off raspberries though .

YABU.

I do think its wasteful.... but i know if i'd seen the worm i'd not have been able to eat it.... I think YANBU, but i'm sure i'm one of very few....

I'd have chucked it out too