Bugs in my brown rice bag
Then as I worked my way up to the next shelf I find this brown rice bag. Its solid and doesn't have any movement in it like rice usually does. I thought water had gotten into it and molded. Lee looked at it and said it was full of dead bugs and poop.  I am so grossed out. I didn't realize that you could get bugs in rice bags. NASTY!!! |
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| Pantry pests! Yes, I remember talking on the phone and gazing at a glass jar with rice...... the rice was moving! Sealed jar so the bugs came with the rice!
Anything of grain is at risk including corn starch, flour, cereal, spaghetti (hard chew!). Once you clean everything, you might want to invest in a pheromone trap for pantry pests! Will collect and trap the buggers hiding in the crack and crevices of the pantry/cabinets. Pretty easy to find on line. Probably a good idea to keep grains in the freezer for awhile, an upright or chest if you have them as they get colder than the one on the refrigerator. |
| *shudder*
Gross gross gross  |
I take it it was ORGANIC brown rice with no nasty pesticides to kill the bugs
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| Trust me, you don't even want to know what type of contaminants are in our food. Nothing is totally clean. The USDA tries it's darndest to keep cotaminant level extremely low, but once in awhile something happens. How many samonella outbreaks have we seen?
Pesticide residue is one concern. Others include naturally occurring bacteria, fungus is always a concern, potentially harmful natural items such as found in chicken skin and fat (other than the fat), insect and animal contamination...ever been around a grain elevator and mice, insects? We should be grateful the food is as clean as it is. |
SheepieBoss wrote: Trust me, you don't even want to know what type of contaminants are in our food. Nothing is totally clean. Truer words have never been spoken.
Allowable contaminants are actually codified by each type of product. One of the grossest (to me) was allowable percentage of deer droppings in one particular food with which I am familiar. Shudder. |
| next time you eat eggs, rinse out the shells. Then place a shell inthe *new* packages of things. Also put one in flour, in cabinets etc.
This is an old trick *and don't ask me why i don't know why it works but it does* that our old Mexican maid used to do and taught my mom when i was little. |
Ron wrote: SheepieBoss wrote: Trust me, you don't even want to know what type of contaminants are in our food. Nothing is totally clean. Truer words have never been spoken. Allowable contaminants are actually codified by each type of product. One of the grossest (to me) was allowable percentage of deer droppings in one particular food with which I am familiar. Shudder. I hear peanut butter is one of the worst foods you can eat ...which I regularly eat a jar of all the time. As it's on the conveyor belt, some nasty things fall in... |
Quote: I hear peanut butter is one of the worst foods you can eat ...which I regularly eat a jar of all the time. As it's on the conveyor belt, some nasty things fall in...
I guess that's why I like the crunchy  Peanutbutter production is mostly closed container, no open jars or giant bins open to the air......think, grind and squirt, twirl on the lid....really no open containers on conveyors any more. |
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