Toss your spinach!!!

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KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 10:06 AM In case you haven't yet heard an ecoli outbreak has been linked to bagged fresh spinach...so throw it out! I just bought some last night...we had salads for dinner...we seem fine this morning...husband still says we have to toss it...I think he just doesn't want to eat his salad for lunch!!! J/K...toss the spinach!

mrounds Posts: 12 Joined: 2006/08/25	2006/09/15, 10:50 AM Yikes, that's not good. Where was the outbreak reported?
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 10:57 AM I don't know that it said....but one person has died...several are sick...they don't specify the brand as far as I know either....mine is a spring mix...just has some spinach in it...hubby says toss it any way...not worth the chance for a 4$ bag of salad....if anybody else knows something more specific...please share!!
mrounds Posts: 12 Joined: 2006/08/25	2006/09/15, 11:13 AM Well just found an article on this http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/09/15/hscout534975.html Not sure where you're from but you might want to throw that bag out just in case!
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 11:41 AM Yeah....mines already tossed...thanks mrounds!!!
mrounds Posts: 12 Joined: 2006/08/25	2006/09/15, 11:45 AM No problem, besides, nothing could ruin your day like some e.coli in your spinach :) Mike
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 11:48 AM Well....I guess that's true!!!:big_smile:
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2006/09/15, 01:11 PM What if you cooked the spinach? would that kill the bacteria?
mrounds Posts: 12 Joined: 2006/08/25	2006/09/15, 01:51 PM I believe (I'm not a scientist) you're supposed to wash it first in really warm water or better yet boil it. I still wouldn't take the chance at this point seeing as it's spread to 9 states.
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 01:57 PM I actually saw a show about this a little bit ago....where a little girl got severely sick from e.coli from a bag of lettuce...something about animal droppings,or the workers not having a way to wash their hands in the field...and because it comes from a bag peopled are fooled into thinking it is sanitary and not washing it...if you boiled it I imagine that would cure the problem...but mine was a mix of different types of lettuce...so I just tossed the whole thing...I'm with Mike...wouldn't want to take the chance.
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2006/09/15, 02:01 PM One reason to grow your own! -------------- Scales are for dead weight: We are not dead yet! Still trying to find out how to do the Hollywood Free Press. Ivan Montreal Canada (City of festivals)
mrounds Posts: 12 Joined: 2006/08/25	2006/09/15, 02:50 PM Now that I've been thinking about it I had a salad last night for dinner. It was one of those bagged ones too. I better check that out when I get home :surprised:
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 02:52 PM Well mike....your still with us...so I think all is kosher!:) Yup....grow my own...screw the flowers...I'm goin for veggies!!!
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2006/09/15, 03:02 PM I always eat and feed my kids raw spinach and for the last week my oldest is having stomach craps and throwing up, I hope it's not the spinach, I have been thinking it's puberty setting in with her as she is 12 and going on 13 January and hasn't started the menstrual yet. Well tossing the spinach and sticking with the all time favorit Brocoli!
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 03:21 PM stomach cramps and throwing up????I don't think thats puberty setting in is it?I don't remember that....you may want to check with your dr...better to be safe than sorry.
mrounds Posts: 12 Joined: 2006/08/25	2006/09/15, 04:07 PM Yea I agree, that doesn't sound like spinach but then again I'm a guy so what do I know about "girl stuff" :) Can't hurt to visit the ol doctor for a check up. Hope everything is OK with your daughter. Unfortunately I live in a condo so I can't grow anything outside. Gotta love common property :\|
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/15, 04:16 PM mmmm.....did you mean "doesn't sound like puberty"????You wrote "doesn't sound like spinach"....I don't think it sounds like spinach either....so thought I'd double check on that one!!!!!
mrounds Posts: 12 Joined: 2006/08/25	2006/09/15, 04:32 PM LOL I got spinach on my mind! Must be the e.coli talking...or typing.
jeramiemaza Posts: 167 Joined: 2006/08/02	2006/09/15, 04:44 PM I suggest going to the doctor and checking it out. I have my professional food manager certificate, we learned all about bacterias and other food born illnesses. They are no joke and your daughter is definitely experiencing symptoms of food poising. ============ Quoting from SFGiantsMVP: I always eat and feed my kids raw spinach and for the last week my oldest is having stomach craps and throwing up, I hope it's not the spinach, I have been thinking it's puberty setting in with her as she is 12 and going on 13 January and hasn't started the menstrual yet. Well tossing the spinach and sticking with the all time favorit Brocoli! ============= -------------- You got an alligator mouth and a hummingbird a$$ Your mouth writing checks that your a$$ can\\\\'t cash 145 and I\\\\'m out of your weight class Want to survive, you better scramble like eggs and break fast (TI, GRAND HUSTLE)
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2006/09/15, 06:14 PM And I just read an article that said cooking might not kill the bacteria and it is advised, at this point, to just toss the spinach out. washing will not get rid of it. I am wondering if it is actually within the cells of the food because they are grown with manure for fertilizer?That would seem to make sense that you couldn't get rid of it by washing it. I guess i will stick with frozen spinach! -------------- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle