[PAR35]

Blame the Greenies who attack pesticides on one side, and GMO grains on the the other side. You end up with more bugs in the food.

Meanwhile, here are some recipes to try out on your husband:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/10401191/Top-11-bug-recipes.html

http://www.insectsarefood.com/recipes.html

http://edibug.wordpress.com/recipes/

Although I’d take a pass on the scorpions.

[BobL]

Since it involves food storage there is only ONE MAN on this site that can answer your question...

[KarlInOhio]

I guess you've never had a garden. I remember my dad picking corn, husking it and chopping out sections (usually at the silk end) which some corn worm had eaten. I remember getting little black bugs in freshly picked raspberries. I remember finding a live cat eating the turkey off my plate when I wasn't looking... well, that was easy to remove even if she growled a little while I did it.

[The Mayor]

Your husband is right, it’s no big deal.

[tiki]

Oh yeah, grains are grown outdoors where there are insects and then they are stored for months and months in silos. They wash the grains before processing them but the insects have bored into many of them and lain eggs and those don’t get washed out.

[Nevadan]

re: Has this ever happened to you?

Unfortunately, yes. And I have no advice to give. It seems to be a fact of life.

[gunsmithkat]

I bought some brown rice at the local health food store a couple months ago. As soon as I got it home the plastic bat went it to a sealed zip lock bag. A few weeks later the inside of the zip lock bag was crawling with grain moths. I have traps around the kitchen and they did not show any infestation.

[Secret Agent Man]

never seen pasta bugs in any pasta i buy. i will look for them now, though.

[smoothsailing]

My grandfather used to say; “You eat a pound of dirt before you die”.

Don’t recall him mentioning the bug limit.

[GILTN1stborn]

LOL, I would rather deal with these little critters than chemicals, modifications, and pesticides. Your husband is right. Sure better than what DC is getting these days. I saw on Drudge that they have bed bug problem! Now that is scary!

[DannyTN]

I prefer the sealed plastic wrapped pasta to the boxes for just that reason.

[RedHeeler]

Be grateful.

[GeronL]

Do you expect food to be grown or manufactured in an antiseptic clean room?

Did you grow up in a plastic bubble?

Everything has some bugs in it. Do you know that yogurt is actually a living bacteria?

Things are grown in the ground, do you expect there wouldn't be bugs of some type involved?

You do wash all your veggies and fruits before eating them, right? It's not just because of dust.

If you try to live a totally clean life, you could develop allergies. A little dirt is good for your immune system.

What does the FDA considered "defective"?

The first thing on the list is ground allspice that should not contain 30 or more bug parts per 10 grams or no more than 1 rodent hair in 10 grams.

Frozen Broccoli - Average of 60 or more aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 grams

ever wonder how easy it is for a can of Sweet Corn to pass muster with the FDA? - Insect larvae (corn ear worms, corn borers) 2 or more 3mm or longer larvae, cast skins, larval or cast skin fragments of corn ear worms or corn borer and the aggregate length of such larvae, cast skins, larval or cast skin fragments exceeds 12 mm in 24 pounds (24 No. 303 cans or equivalent)

Wheat Flour - Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams or 1 rodent hair in 50 grams.

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*source is FDA

Defect Levels Handbook The Food Defect Action Levels - Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans

[RetiredTexasVet]

Quit your whining, the UN has dictated that you should eat more insects thereby lessening your need for animal protein, leaving more for the elite, and contributing less carbon for global warming .... you hater and wrecker!

[jocon307]

This has never happened to me.

But, once back in the bad old days of the 1970s in Dirty Old NYC I bought an electrical alarm clock.

Brought it home, plugged it in, the clock ran, all was well.

As soon as the alarm clock went off the next day, and I hit the snooze button, like a million roaches ran out of it.

It was like a freaking horror movie.

I have other roach horror stories, but I will save them for future threads.

Yes, I threw the clock away immediately.

[davius]

Put your pasta in a plastic container and place a couple of Bay leaves in with it. It works for flour, rice, and pretty much any dry good except sugar (which doesn’t need any protection).

[Mount Athos]

I got this once in pasta from china.

I don’t buy pasta from china anymore

[dead]

Before each of us shuffles off this mortal coil, we will have consumed significant amounts of dirt, bugs, and other nasties. It is inevitable, by the very nature of eating.

Pick out the bits you see and don't sweat what you miss.

[BykrBayb]

If you don’t have bugs in your teeth, there’s something wrong with your ride.

[smokingfrog]

Bugs will show up in the pantry sooner or later. Invest in some quality storage containers so the bugs don’t spread to everything.