Do you wash your fruits and vegetables?
Ok, ok, I have been known to be a bit of a lazy person from time to time (dont pay attention to the full pile of laundry waiting to be done since the weekend!). And even though I am pretty health conscious, I have caught myself ‘wetting’ a fruit or veg in an attempt to pass it as washing. I know, shame on me, two slaps on the offending hand.
It is an important part that needs to be done though. Just think of all the strangers, some peed quickly on way to work and shook their johnsons in a gesture of cleaning themselves, touched our produce… a lot. Then you have all the chemicals, lovely bacteria and whatnot that have found a home for themselves in the who knows how long transport and storage process.
No washing will clean them perfectly, but some effort will take care of most of that crap.
So, here is what my lazy self has decided to do to achieve this feat. Even though there is advice out there not to wash the food until just before you are going to eat it, that just wasnt working for me.
I get back from the store. Fill my kitchen sink with lukewarm water and put a few drops of my natural fruit and veg wash (not sure what its called, but if you want I can check). Then I dump the whole fresh lot in there and wash it up. Let it sit in the water for a few minutes and then pull it out and put them on a towel to dry. Off to the fridge and fruit bowl and we are ready. I have not noticed things going off quicker because of my one wash fits all approach.
What do you do? Or am I the only one that used to have an issue with this.
I take the lazy wash way out, too. I’m too slothy to wash just before eating each time. Whatever. Plus, Maddie tends to sneak around helping herself to any food out on the counter, so it had better be clean!
I also get skeeved thinking about produce and germs. Heck, I get skeeved about most things containing germs. And then this came out today…my mom sent it to me along with a few friends (I guess I have a reputation) and the sad thing was, I knew all of these nesting grounds already! LOL
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=100202755&imageindex=1
I like the blog! Yay! This will be fun!
Interesting.. And sadly enough I’m a rinse it off quickly to say I did it kinda girl… I usually use a fresh paper towel though and give it a good shine so I guess I’m always hoping that it helps scrub some germs off of it… but you can’t protect yourself from germs – if I was a complete germaphob I could never be a teacher – especially a Kindergarten teacher! See.. now I can’t think about germs to much or I would never tie a kids shoe (thats been slopped around on the bathroom floor at school!) or hold a kids hand! YUCK! Trying not to think about the germs that lay around our world and thank heavens for our immune systems!
I am not a germaphob at all actually. The main reason I wanted to learn to wash them good is because of the chemicals. The rest is just a bonus.
I actually think germs are needed for a healthy system ;)
I wash just before eating too!
LOVING THE BLOG!!!
Thanks Zizi!