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[Guest guest]

okay, I need some help here. As a child I was fed mostly frozen and

canned produce. But I am trying to use more fresh produce for my

children. But I order most of my produce from an organic co-op and I

am just getting grossed out. I try to order broccoli and cauliflower,

but often it comes loaded with these little bugs, sometimes black

sometimes green or grey. I soak to food, shake it under water and they

just keep floating up so the food ends up in the compost, because I

can't eat it. Am I just being too squeamish? Is this normal (the bugs

I mean). Should I just get these foods elsewhere? They are much

cheaper through the coop when I can eat them. Any help on this would

be useful.

[Guest guest]

Bugs on produce is definitely normal. They were always in our brussels sprouts

when we grew them at my parents' house. After you soak them, put them in the

freezer for a day or two. Then thaw them out and soak them again. That always

got them all out for us.

 

If you can't eat them even after all that, it'd be more practical to buy them

somewhere else if you'll just toss them otherwise.

 

 

Laura <lballinger wrote: okay,

I need some help here. As a child I was fed mostly frozen and

canned produce. But I am trying to use more fresh produce for my

children. But I order most of my produce from an organic co-op and I

am just getting grossed out. I try to order broccoli and cauliflower,

but often it comes loaded with these little bugs, sometimes black

sometimes green or grey. I soak to food, shake it under water and they

just keep floating up so the food ends up in the compost, because I

can't eat it. Am I just being too squeamish? Is this normal (the bugs

I mean). Should I just get these foods elsewhere? They are much

cheaper through the coop when I can eat them. Any help on this would

be useful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

As a kid I had to pick the food that I ate out of the garden. I don't remember

bugs ever being in anything of what we picked. Maybe in shucked corn or

something but we threw that away as bad. They should pick the food (remove any

bugs crawling on it if there are any) and put it in a clean bucket. I don't

think there should be bugs in the food that they are selling you.

Renee

 

Laura <lballinger wrote:

okay, I need some help here. As a child I was fed mostly frozen and

canned produce. But I am trying to use more fresh produce for my

children. But I order most of my produce from an organic co-op and I

am just getting grossed out. I try to order broccoli and cauliflower,

but often it comes loaded with these little bugs, sometimes black

sometimes green or grey. I soak to food, shake it under water and they

just keep floating up so the food ends up in the compost, because I

can't eat it. Am I just being too squeamish? Is this normal (the bugs

I mean). Should I just get these foods elsewhere? They are much

cheaper through the coop when I can eat them. Any help on this would

be useful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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