Do You Eat Bad Food?

@gtargirl (5376)
United States
November 19, 2008 12:34pm CST
I'm putting this discussion under life because the people in "cooking" might find this offensive, lol. I am the daughter of two WWII POWs and apparently I have "adopted" some of their habits. One of which is to not throw away bad food. If the bread has fuzzy blue spots . . . just take them off and eat the rest. Or if there are little bugs in your uncooked rice. Well we just sift the bugs out and cook the rice. And if the bad rotten fruit or potatoes have touched the others in the bunch will you still eat the good fruit? By the way what is yogurt made out of anyhow, and sour cream, and butter milk? Just a thought.
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@GardenGerty (160708)
• United States
19 Nov 08
One of my pet peeves is to waste food. Yes, I will pull the blue fuzzies off of bread. I freeze my rice and other grains so that it does not get buggy. I only throw away the rotten piece of fruit. I freeze the overripe bananas they make good shakes and great banana bread. I will put fruit and potatoes in an extra refrigerator. Yogurt is a bacterial culture in milk products, butter milk is what is left after you have churned butter out of full fat, non homogenized milk, (Or is cultured, now a days). Sour cream is just that, or is cultured. ( I cannot figure out how they make fat free sour cream, but they do that, too.) I did without food on occasion growing up, and I like to save on food. I have a bag full of ground up bread heels and cornbread to make stuffing out of.
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@gtargirl (5376)
• United States
19 Nov 08
What an awesome and complete answer, Gerty. Thanks. I never thought of freezing rice and other grains. Interesting. I will have to try it. We also use overripe bananas for pisang goreng (an Indonesian desert). It's just fried bananas with yummie coating. And old bread is awesome for bread pudding and I will try it for stuffing this Thanksgiving. Thanks again, you're wonderful.
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• United States
19 Nov 08
I am sometimes like that too. I was just brought up not to waste food and money as well.
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@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
19 Nov 08
Yuck. I am sorry that is kind of gross. In my case. If I see anything wrong its out. If one fruit is bad the whole batch is bad. If one piece of bread has green the whole loaf is bad. It just gross
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@Modestah (11179)
• United States
20 Nov 08
that is so true - they do not press the pretty apples or cider and the black skinned bannanas make the sweetest breads.
• Canada
19 Nov 08
My husband knows how to "clean off" bread and cheese that have started to turn into something else. He knows how to do whatever he needs to do to food to make it edible to "everyone else" and I trust him because I've seen just how good at this he really is. Not sure I'd trust anyone else to "clean" food like that.
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@gtargirl (5376)
• United States
19 Nov 08
That sounds awfully interesting. Care to share some of his "cleaning" methods?
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
yes I am the same, I do not throw food away unless it is rotten, I just have no money to waste.
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@gtargirl (5376)
• United States
19 Nov 08
I hear ya, WinterRose. Hey, even old, stale bread is good toasted with melting cheese and a slice of tomato.
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@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
20 Nov 08
Considering how hard life is nowadays, if I don't have any choice but to eat what is on my table, then I will. As long as it will not cause me any disease. I will not be choosy this time since a lot actually don't have any food to eat.
@Optimize (201)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
I eat fast food alot. once every weekend usually. But i have a very fast metabalism and i exersize daily. I also eat very very well during the week so being bad on the weekend doesnt make much of a difference :p
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
20 Nov 08
I was raised that way too. But as a child, I had frequent stomach upsets, my guess is that is was because of my parents habits. When I moved on my own, at the age of 19, my intestinal problems disappeared for the most part. I still have problems occasionally but it is only normal.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
19 Nov 08
Oh my. I would not eat bad food LOL. I used to work for a popcorn factory and bugs would be in some of the kernels. We had to pick out the bugs or bad kernels and then send the rest of it for processing.
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• Philippines
27 Jan 09
I don't want to eat that kind of foods. that is why I don't want to watch Survivor and Fear Factor shows because they are showing people eating that kind of food.
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
19 Nov 08
I am very picky and fussy about my food. I buy premium brand food and good quality items. I wash vegetables and fruit, peal some of them too. I always throw away bad food. There is no way I would eat bread after picking off the mold. If there were bugs in my rice I would get upset and the whole lot would go in my bin. I eat a healthy vegan diet. I thought bad food was unhealthy choices like deep fried chips every day. You mean bad food is as you have described it and people in prisoner of war and concentration camps had to eat bad food. Yuck. All the best my friend.
@katkat (2378)
• Philippines
20 Nov 08
Same here. I don't eat food that is rotten or have molds in it. For me it is gross to eat food that has mold or not in very good condition. I don't throw bad waste instead I make it as a fertilizer by composting. That way I don't waste my money or the food and I have a organic fertilizer
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• Australia
19 Nov 08
Years ago my parents heard that there was to be a flour sortage so bought quite a few bags of flour. It took them years to use the flour up and over time the weevels moved in and the flour developed a funny taste .Before every use of the flour the veevels were sifted out and even though my mum is a great cook the funny taste came through . It seems to have given them no lasting ill effects ,although Dad has passed away mum is hail and hearty at eighty-six years young.
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• India
20 Nov 08
no i wont eat bad food because the health will be spoiled and we will get lots of diseases when we eat the bad food and road side food....earlier i used to eat the food in the restaurants and outside my health got down and now i am eating only my moms food which is very healthy and very nice...my moms dishes and very nice and they where very healthy....
• Philippines
20 Nov 08
Yeap! a lot of them! and the worst of it. I like them better!
• India
27 Jan 09
never i am perticular about what i eat and what i avoid in eating i love light food to eat and i prefer that i intake only liquid for me and fruits they are really healthy and makes you more lighter in feeling and activate positive thinking.
@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
I don't like to waste food either. I was brought up to believe to throw out bread was a grave sin, however I do throw out bread with fuzzy blue spots because the mould has spread its tentacles throughout the bread even if you cannot see it. I shop in small quantities and freeze my loaf of bread. I put rice, beans, lentils, cornmeal and flour immediately into glass jars or plastc containers so bugs cannot get in. I have had buggy rice on occasion and thrown it out. If one apple is rotten I throw it out and use up the rest as soon as possible. I also freeze bananas and make muffins at a later date. It is so sad that people throw out so much food, particularly in North America.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
20 Nov 08
Throw out the bad eat the rest . but if I find bugs in flour, beans, rice it all goes in the trash. Dont eat much yogart and some sour cream, No butter milk at all. And it is all made from curddled milk!
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
20 Nov 08
just the other day I sliced the mould off of some cheese. It was still yummy cheese. I grew up for a while in the tropics and it was just par for the course - you pick through your grains when you buy them to get the weevils and such out - and then put it up in tupperware.
@phoenix25 (1541)
• United States
20 Nov 08
I could deal with everything except the bugs in the rice. That's where I draw the line. When I was growing up, we were poor and so we couldn't just throw away good food. We also lived in the south where bread molds easily, so it was more often than not that the last few slices of bread would have a spot or two of mold on them. We would just pick it off and eat it. No big deal. They sell cheeses with mold on it and people don't freak out about that. If I had a bag of fruit or potatoes and one went bad, I would just throw the rotten one away and and use the good fruit or potatoes. I frequently will cut off a bad spot of a potato, also. Now, I do throw out food when it's been in my fridge a couple of days. My mom used to keep stuff in there forever and then we'd have to guess if it was okay to eat or not. I'm not into playing that game, so if it's been in there a few days and I'm not going to eat it, in the trash it goes.
@drealm (79)
• China
20 Nov 08
If I am in ketotis, and eat something , say, for lunch that is a bit too carby and knocks me out, when will the stick show it? If I use a ketostick and check an hour after lunch, will it show? Will it not show till the next day? If I were to "test" a food to see if it's too much, I'd like to KNOW it's that food, instead of something else. I know this sounds confusing, but hope you understand what I'm trying to ask. Thanks a lot!
• India
20 Nov 08
My mom also have the habit of eating fuzzy food, she will remove the fuzz and have the rest.But my opinion is not to eat decomposed food.