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Is it just me who dislikes being given home made things to eat?

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FlightAttendant · 08/10/2009 18:12

It probably is

but some jar of anonymous preserve comes home from the school tombola and I just regard it with suspicion then label it up for his teacher instead.

Is it just me? I do not like the idea of non inspected premises especially when people say 'Oh well ds was sick last week so he was at home with me and we made these'

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Tombliboobs · 08/10/2009 18:21

No, I am the same

traceybath · 08/10/2009 18:23

Me too. Fussy emoticon.

Dumbledoresgirl · 08/10/2009 18:25

Do you buy/eat cakes made by others? In my children's school, each class does a cake sale during the year - so 7 each year. They are very popular and my children always want me to buy 5 for £1. I try very hard to let them choose for themselves but it is tempting to nip in and get the obvious shop bought cakes some people donate, rather than the squishy cakes clearly made by some 6 year old child.

SixtyFootDoll · 08/10/2009 18:25

I will eat anything

BobbingForPeachys · 08/10/2009 18:25

Dopeople really say that? Wow, I woudl reptend otherwise and lie

We just have a chocolate tombola, big bars, small bars and boxes. Much easier.

have to say though given how much boiling preserves take, I think they'd be OK LOL

pipsy76 · 08/10/2009 18:52

ok, so we are sure the people making the processed food in the factories don't spit in it then!

colditz · 08/10/2009 18:54

PMSL

I have worked in all manner of food premises. I would FAR rather eat home made

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FlightAttendant · 08/10/2009 18:54

Peachy do not lie!!! I need the truth!

Pipsy, you have just brought that thought out of its storage place RIGHT at the back of my mind. Cheers

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FlameWithTooManyHormones · 08/10/2009 18:54

No homemade is allowed at our school any more after "incidents" with cakes ( imagine away)

It is a shame tbh

I eat anything.

colditz · 08/10/2009 18:55

I once worked with a girl who noticed a girl had come into the restaurant who used to bully her (colleague) at school. She spat in the lettuce!

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FlightAttendant · 08/10/2009 18:55

Flame

'incidents'?

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FlameWithTooManyHormones · 08/10/2009 18:56

I think some may have had non legal ingredients, and others just came from families that just one glance and you wouldn't eat em....

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FlightAttendant · 08/10/2009 18:56

actually I am never horrible, so nobody would spit in my frozen moussaka from Tesco would they.?

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DiamondHead · 08/10/2009 18:58

I did once read about someone who bought a ready meal pizza. The peppers on the top spelled 'Fuck Off'. I quite liked that one.

bran · 08/10/2009 19:01

I'll always remember the home-made toffee that my cousin made for our family when I was a child. It was the best fire-lighter ever, just a couple of pieces would burn brightly for ages and get a good fire going really quickly.

Guad · 08/10/2009 19:04

LOL at the pizza

I try and buy the neater looking cakes at least, one that looks like it hasn't been made by a child.

My friend only buys her own ones back.

Squishabelle · 08/10/2009 19:12

I have heard some terrible things that go on in food factories. Think home made might be safer. TBH I think that some people can be a bit ridiculous with their opinion of home made items.

thisisyesterday · 08/10/2009 19:13

lol i always eat home-made stuff.
agreewith previous posters about notknowing what is in shop-bought stuff.

Guad · 08/10/2009 19:14

I like nice looking homemade things, but I tend to avoid the ones with thumbprints in the hundreds and thousands.

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FlightAttendant · 08/10/2009 19:18

No I am very evry OCD about stuff like this though

I admit it is not normale

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SixtyFootDoll · 08/10/2009 19:19

i know someone who usedd to work in the factory that made ready meals for Marks, needless to say dont buy any.
nad we live near a biscuit factory - I have heard some interesting stories form there.
I would rther hhome made and tbh the people that go to the effort of baking cakes for school cant imaginea re the sort of people that would cut their toe nails in them.

piscesmoon · 08/10/2009 19:30

I buy cakes from the cake stall if I know who has baked them, or if it is so beautifully made and packaged that I just feel that someone who has gone to all that trouble must have a very clean kitchen and hands.

piscesmoon · 08/10/2009 19:31

I think that anyone who has worked in the factory avoids the produce-I know someone who won't eat Mr Kipling cakes for that very reason.

BobbingForPeachys · 08/10/2009 19:33

Yep, Dad won't go anywhere near anything processed and amde of chicken

Neither will I after what he told me

MovingOutOfBlighty · 08/10/2009 19:34

I have the following rules:

I NEVER eat something a child had input into making (knowing how many bogeys etc go inadvertantly into cooking with my dcs)

I NEVER try someone elses babies puree. One friend kept trying to persude me to try the fish pie she had made, pureed up. I would rather eat Greggs the rest of my life. [gag emoticon].