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Evil weevils

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  • i ate some once. :D

    Why:confused:
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  • mookie
    mookie Posts: 2,655 Forumite
    i ate some once. :D


    Were they filling? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
  • Why:confused:
    see what they tasted like?

    no they'd spread from my flour to my porridge oats, and i was going through a raw oats faze...
    Trying to be good, not always succeeding. :A:beer:
  • sandy2_2
    sandy2_2 Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    I was going to use the last few spoonfuls of plain flour at the weekend but when I seived it I was left with about 4 or 5 things in the bottom of the seive. They weren't moving but looked like a thickish piece of cotton about 4 or 5mm long and a sort of beigey colour, perhaps they looked furryish as they were coverd in flour. I had a look at the links to weevils etc but couldn't find anything that loked similar. Any ideas anyone?
    By the way I threw all the flour out, didn´t do any baking and now have SR flour in the freezer hopefully killing off anything else
  • I was about to make an apple cake with some bramleys I'd got in store when I noticed the wholemeal flour I had was BBE 03/07 (as well as being plain not SR :mad: and I couldn't remember how much baking powder to add to convert it either!

    However I thought I should look closely at the flour and saw one or two little black insects, not many mind, but I binned it nevertheless.
    Were they weevils? I always imagined they would be wriggly creatures _pale_
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  • Sagz_2
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    Extra bit of protein in your pies! The flour might not be suitable for veggies tho:eek:
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    Once youve got them in your kitchen they are notoriously hard to get rid of.
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  • Oooooh er!

    No I don't think the flour had weevils in it, the little critters in my flour were tiny and didn't appear to have legs or anything.

    I don't know whether to thank you or not :D that is just gross, ewwwwwwwwww!
    :wave:
  • DawnW
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    If you keep your flour in an airtight plastic container they can't get in.
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