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Do you use the 3 second rule with your kids?

Started by The Healthy Moms Magazine , author of The Healthy Moms Magazine 8/20/2010 11:33:06 AM

Maybe you are not familiar with this. I'll explain. When I was a kid if food dropped on the floor we would eat it as long as it wasn't there longer than three seconds. Most people automatically throw the food in the trash if it falls on the floor. What do you do? Do you let your kids eat food off the floor or do you throw it away?

We have a limited budget and as my family continues to grow and grocery store prices go up it is getting harder and harder to put food on the table. So if one of my kids drops food on the floor and then eats it I don't say anything. I just let it happen.  Although, if I find food on the floor then I throw it away. What do you do?

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Reply by Vika

author of ViSart - DaLi. 8/26/2010 3:55:02 PM

I will throw it away, I can't let them eat it, maybe if I just did floor-washing, maybe then I will close my eyes to that...


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Reply by Lorie

author of Be Different...Act Normal 9/17/2010 9:38:51 AM

If it is on my floor or at a friends house even than I am fine with them picking it up and eating it.  Honestly I think we are too freaked out about germs sometimes and it is actually counter productive to the immune system.

If we are someplace public, like the floor at Costco it goes in the garbage.


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Reply by Yama

author of The Olive Branch 9/17/2010 7:08:11 PM

In our home food on the floor doesn't last long. But it's not the children who get to it. It's either one of the cats or the dog, if he's inside with us at the moment.

If, by chance, one of the animals HASN'T messed with it ... and one of the girls quickly picks it up and eats it, I don't say anything. What can you say really? It's not really going to hurt them.

If the animals haven't gotten it and the girls haven't gotten it, I usually toss it out to the dog or call one of the cats over lol


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