Ok... that is weird. Are you sure it was the kitchen stuff and not the food itself? I can't really see how it could still be unsanitary if you've bleached everything and washed the silverware/pots and pans properly? I'm guessing that if you share the kitchen it's probably more difficult though...
Short of making your own sandwiches and salads and using plastic stuff, I don't really know. But I can't imagine that it would be cheap to eat that way, as typically cheap foods are things you pretty much have to cook to eat.
Yep. I'm sure it is.
Cup O' Soup
Easy Mac
And similar... there are tons of other Soups/meals that you microwave right in the container you buy them in, so no bowl needed.
I love that idea. Something I don't have to wash a bowl for is worth using the microwave for.
Peanut butter and jelly?
I'm wondering if it's something else and just misdiagnosed? My mom was a terrible housekeeper when we were young and we never got food poisoning. Dirty dishes can pile up but as long as you eat what you cook with and eat off of your good.
There are certain germs from mice that can make you very ill. I think you can have that same food poisoning reaction or worse. Someone here or the horse forum had that and it's not lack of cleanliness just bad luck that the one mouse that picks your home has it.
Okay, so in response to the questions and concerns that it might not be food poisoning... Because I don't think we have mice and we have an excellent cat who is a fantastic hunter. He catches squirrels, even.
1. My roommate has no understanding of germ theory.
2. My roommate never washes his hands. I've seen him wash them 4x since I've lived here. We've watched him prepare dinners with raw meat and not wash his hands once - not before, during, after, or after eating. He rinses his hands after using the toilet. He doesn't shower daily, or I'd be confident it happens more than once a day.
3. He is a Janitor. Who does not wash his hands and hasn't for decades. He comes home covered, head to toe, in a fine powder of sawdust about once a month. Except he told us it's actually mold from the drains and children's ball pit where he works. Instead of changing and showering, he fixed himself dinner and parked himself on the couch. The second time, he changed clothes but did not wash his hands and arms - you could see it on him.
4. The cutting board in the kitchen is a block of mold and bacterial growth. We sanded it, wiped with denatured alcohol, and salt scrubbed it. A week later, there was mold growth. (Please understand that I live in a desert state, and my previous roommate would leave coffee grinds in the coffee maker for 1-2 weeks before they molded. You don't see mold here like you do in most states. Mold is everywhere, but to have it crustily growing on everything is abnormal. I've never seen mold in a toilet before this.)
5. He doesn't understand disinfecting. At all. He touches raw meat (raw pork 1x a week) without washing his hands. We came home to a kitchen covered in blood once when he went away for the week. Like a horror scene. Duck blood everywhere.
5. A. He thinks a sponge disinfects on it's own, so he wipes the cutting board with raw bacon grease down and then wipes down the kitchen with it, rinses the sponge, and puts it on the counter. Then he will wash his water glass and breakfast dishes with the same sponge - a few swipes, rinse, done. Sometimes he uses soap. Then he dries the dishes and puts them away with the supposedly clean hand towel.
I can give you more details on the contamination if you'd like, but for now I'm stopping here. He was food poisoning me for months and the BF for almost as long - he eats like a goat, I've never seen him get sick. Once we switched to paper and plastic it got better, but anything we touch in the kitchen has to be disinfected first.
