BUGS! Ugh.

[susandennis]

I'm sick of my food. The dinner options I had in house all failed to peak my interest. But, I have fresh cold milk and nice, crisp cereal. WTF not?

I pulled down the big canister of cherios. LOADED with bugs. I mean there was a bug for every o. It was horrible. I had a smaller canister of misc cereal - a little frosted fakes, a little wheat checks, a few raisin bran. You know, the remains. BUGS. Not as many - I guess they didn't like the flavors. I ground them all up in the disposal. Left was oatmeal. I have a big box and some individual packets. I went for the packets. No bugs and pretty tasty. Now I've got to ho back into the kitchen and check the big oatmeal.

This condo has been pretty bug free for all of the 25 years I've lived here. I quit burning real wood in the fireplace years ago when I found some bugs that came in with the split logs. I had an ant invasion in a couple of spots about a decade ago. And that's been it. Until today.

I'm going to just believe it's a one off because the cereal was really old. New rule. Cereal in house, eat it. If not hungry for cereal, don't buy it. I do not heart bugs one single bit.

The fabric for pants arrived and it's perfect. I'm quite delighted because it's easy to find and there are several sources and it's not terribly expensive but has a really nice feel. It's 100% cotton knit. So. Yeah. Let the pants production begin!

We are having quite the wind storm. Sadly the leaves on The Tree That I Hate are all still green and not close to falling off. I miss my neighbors and can't wait til that view blocking tree is bare again and I can see what's going on.

Comments

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

Gross! You're the second person on my friends list to talk about bugs in their food today (the other person had something in her dried pasta and didn't realize it until it was done cooking :()

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

If it's weevils, you can pop a bay leaf in the canister to keep them out. Might alter the taste on sugar cereal, though.

[susandennis]

yeah, frosted flakes with bay leaves... they's a pondering

[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

Yuck! If you have other open packages of food in that cabinet, I'd check them now -- even if they're not cereal. Those critters can get into *anything*.

Tell Zoe to get on the job!

[susandennis]

Yeah, my pantry is bare tonight!! But, it needed cleaning anyway.

[howeird]

It's probably not the condo which is buggy, it's the cereal. From an article by psu.edu extension program: "How do these pests get into our food? Occasionally, some may find their way inside from outdoors; however, the majority of these pests are in food products brought into the home. The initial infestation can originate at the processing plant, the warehouse, the delivery vehicle, or the retail store (chances of becoming infested increase the longer a food item is stored at the same location).

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

We had a problem with weevils in our flour, we put it in the freezer for 24 hours when we get it to kill off anything in it

[ladythmpr.livejournal.com]

I do the same with rice. My one big problem with pantry pests one year came in with the rice.

Re: Reading all these comments...

[susandennis]

May the total number of bugs that you find equal ZERO!!!!

[laura davidson (from livejournal.com)]

Ewew ewew. If you want cereal but aren't sure you want much, maybe those single-serve boxes? :)

But ew.

[blues-kun.livejournal.com]

I like raisin bran, but I never buy it anymore because it attracts 30,000 tiny fucking beetles within like 12 hours of opening the bag.

I don't care for the extra crunch.