Food Spillage - Keep Or Discard?

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Food spillage - keep or discard?
« on: July 29, 2020, 03:38:36 PM »
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Clumsily, I dropped the fish food plastic tub on the floor this morning. I have a vast array of dried foods mixed in it, and only about 10% stayed in the pot, 25% landed on the bottom shelf of the fish cupboard, and the remaining 65% landed on the laminate flooring. I used some paper to push what landed onto the bottom shelf into a separate container, and the same with what landed on the floor into a separate container ie I didn't use the dustpan and brush. The corner where it fell gets mopped once a week on Fridays. The only time feet end up near that area is when sitting on the adjacent chair to observe or feed the fish - only me, several times per day ( sometimes in socks, sometimes in indoor-only shoes, occasionally in outdoor shoes :-[ ), but it's altogether possible that outdoor shoes have made no contact with that particular area since last Friday's mopping.

I hate wastage. What would you do, if you were in my position?
(a) discard both what landed on the bottom shelf and the floor;
(b) keep both;
(c) discard what landed on the floor but keep what landed on the bottom shelf.



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Re: Food spillage - keep or discard?
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2020, 05:16:44 PM »
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I dropped almost a full pot of 1 mm pellets a while back. I threw away the ones that landed on the washing machine door because I had to remove them from inside the drum and the rubber seal. But the ones which landed on the floor, I kept. I carefully brushed them up and pulled out the bits of fluff and the strands of hair etc When i used them I put a pinch into my hand and gently pushed the pellets across my palm, leaving any dust behind before putting the food in the tank. The fish survived.

I would definitely keep what landed on the shelf.

You don't say what type of food, flakes or pellets, but if it's pellets I would also keep what landed on the floor. Flakes might be a bit more difficult to separate from any odd bits of dust (your floor sounds a lot cleaner than mine  :-[ ) but if it looks clean, I'd put it in a separate container and check every pinch over before I used it.

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Re: Food spillage - keep or discard?
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2020, 06:32:04 PM »
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Thanks, Sue - very helpful. [It's a mix of flakes, pellets, crisps and bites.]

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Re: Food spillage - keep or discard?
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2020, 11:23:05 PM »
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I drop/spill food on an almost regular basis.
I have so many different types of food on the go at any given time that disposing of food that has been spilled is almost second nature.
I'm sure this isn't necessary though.

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Re: Food spillage - keep or discard?
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2020, 06:28:46 AM »
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I’d feel absolutely no fear in using the 35% that didn’t go on the floor.  I think I would also feel quite comfortable using what was on the floor too given where it landed. I would probably crack on and forget it even happened!! I’ve used fish food spilled on the floor where only socks visit numerous times before and scooped it up and forgotten about it.

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Re: Food spillage - keep or discard?
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2020, 04:05:00 PM »
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Thanks, both.
Littlefish, you sound just like me - but usually the lid is/stays on mine or the container is fortunately shut when it drops.

 

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