dead slug in a cauliflower

squeaky

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Should I stop now?

Yes please

taplady

Iguana wrote:

Better that you found it when it was uncooked rather than cooking it and finding it on your plate!

I did just that ! :eek: had eaten 3/4 of my meal when I found a cooked slug on my plate :eek: had either come off the broccoli or cauli

I have been much more careful since then with washing my veg - they were from Tesco not a market or farm shop so i wasn't expecting any nasties!

SnowyOwl_2

I probably scoffed a few living bugs when out blackberry picking in the summer. I know I ought to have brought all the berries home to wash but they were so big and ripe and juicy I popped some in my mouth straight from the bush. Yummy!

Debt_Free_Chick

Unless you buy vegetables that have been grown in a hermetically sealed container all of them will have been crawled over by bugs and pee'd on by endless wildlife over the course of their life. However, before it gets to the shelf it's been washed - usually in chlorine (yeugh)

To me, the treatment of veg using pesticides, chlorine washing and other chemicals is much worse than finding the odd bug on there.

Spendless

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

Unless you buy vegetables that have been grown in a hermetically sealed container all of them will have been crawled over by bugs and pee'd on by endless wildlife over the course of their life. However, before it gets to the shelf it's been washed - usually in chlorine (yeugh)

To me, the treatment of veg using pesticides, chlorine washing and other chemicals is much worse than finding the odd bug on there.

It was bought on the local fruit and veg market DFC-so not sure if they would wash the veg 1st

I see most people would have done what I wanted to, washed it and kept quiet. I'll not feel guilty about doing that next time then:p

Debt_Free_Chick

Spendless wrote:

It was bought on the local fruit and veg market DFC-so not sure if they would wash the veg 1st

Perhaps what my mum would call a "quick cat's lick"

Yes, it won't have gone through the chemical washes that the supermarkets insist on. It would be pretty "normal" to find wildlife on veg from the market, just as it is when you grow your own. Funny that, I find growing my own has made me completely immune to bugs on my veg :rolleyes:

Your DH is being a right softie :rotfl: Just don't tell him in future

Loadsabob

Spendless wrote:

Feeling far too hungover yesterday to do a special dinner, we had one today. As I prepared our veg (bought off our market). I found a dead slug as I peeled back the green leaves from the cauli. Mr Spendless totally refused to eat the cauli-:rolleyes: and it's gone to next doors rabbits instead.

What would you have done?

Most weeks my organic veg comes with visitors. If I didn't get at least one slug or green caterpillar (thankfully still alive most of the time), I'd be suspicious as to its organic-ness!! Well, not really, but I certainly find it reassuring that creatures survive un-pesticided in my veg! I throw them out the back door towards the composter. Some of them have survived up to a week or more in the fridge before I find them, still living! Shows how good the veg must be to sustain them all that time!