Do you buy the £1 fruit punnets....

zaksmum

I'd only buy them if they were covered with the cellophane stuff. And then I'd wash them just to be on the safe side.

Toothfairy4

Really wouldn't bother me. As someone has said, plenty of flies will have landed on any fruit before you get it home and people sneeze/cough all around us every day. I rarely was fruit and veg unless there's visible soil etc.

tanith

I would have no problem buying and eating it although I do generally wash fruit and veg whether its bought or picked from the garden..

Scrapaholic

I got 3 smallish punnets of strawberries for £1 today . They were cellophane covered . I'll give them a rinse before eating . If I thought too much about what might have touched various food items I wouldn't eat them. I don't like to think about people handling loose mushrooms and they always look as if they've got fingernail marks in them . I know what they're grown in !

valk_scot

I used to have an allotment...it had rats, mice, pigeons, rabbits, foxes and goodness knows what else running around nibbling the edges of things plus peeing and pooing everywhere. Not to mention the barrowloads of horse and chicken droppings I dug into the soil one way or another, or the legions of creepy crawlies. The one thing I didn't do was apply chemicals...the farmer in the adjoining farm did that bit, when he sprayed his crops.

I do the same for everything, home grown or supermarket or market stall. I give it a rinse under the tap, most of the time anyway, and peel only if necessary.

kjmtidea

Yes I do and i'm never ill so it can't be doing me much harm!

meer53

victory wrote: »

Just been into town, saw the strawberries £1.50 large punnet or £1 small, thought they look nice, loads of £1 bowls of all different fruit and veg outside a fruit and veg shop, started walking towards them and a fly landed on the strawberries, yuck...

Then the council sit on centre of town cleaning machine started up creating a whirl of dust.....

Then a man walked past the fruit and sneezed and coughed right by them....

Then a little girl who had been playing in the muddy rain puddles walked up to a punnet and took one much to the annoyance of the greengrocer....

After seeing all that I decided no thanks and bought the strawberries from a supermarket:D

I know you can wash them when you get home but :eek:

Can't be healthy fruit and veg exposed to all that surely?

Fruit doesn't grow in plastic containers. It grows in soil and is picked by people who probably don't wash their hands after they've been for a poo. Have a think about the strawberries you bought from the supermarket, it's a bit naive to think they're cleaner than the ones from the grocers.

cutestkids

Do you really think that the supermarket fruit and veg is any cleaner?

I have to say that this thread has me dumbstruck it really does.

coolcait

^^^^

Wot they all said.

Just because you didn't see dirt, grime, grubby fingers and snot going on the supermarket fruit - before it was packaged in cellophane - doesn't mean that none of that happened.

Wash it.

Wash it in a saltwater solution (and rinse well) if it makes you feel that it's safer to eat.

Or buy tinned [STRIKE]mush[/STRIKE] fruit, as someone else has suggested.

Perryl_2

I used to work on a fruit and veg stall, the bits we put into the £1 bowls were bits that were not always as fresh as the main contents of the stall, so personally I wouldn't be picking those as I knew they wouldn't have as long a shelf life.