Oh yeah, I saw that yesterday. Luckily, I have not bought bag salads in a long time.

We cannot wait until our lettuce grows. It's so easy to grow your own. I highly recommend it!

Wow. A bat. That's crazy and gross. Have to check lettuce now. . .

My initial thought is, "oh the poor bat"

The chemicals on that product are at least as scary as any bat. I bought a bag, didn't get around to using it until over a week later. After dinner put the left overs in a plastic container, many days later it was still fresh when I went for a light lunch. Meanwhile a head of lettuce I purchased a week later was rusting away in my 'fridge. That product must be SOAKED in some preservative.

I just read about that this morning too! I quit buying bagged salad as a general rule too. Mostly I guy green leaf or romaine heads, sometimes red leaf lettuce. About the only thing I buy in a bag is baby spinach and I rinse before using. But I also heard about someone finding a live scorpion in a bag of spinach recently. Can't be too careful about anything.

Just this morning another bagged salad on the news. Different brand and it had a live scorpion crawling in the bag.

I have not bought any in a long time.

EWE!!!!! Talk about bad press! Ha! The only bagged veggies I buy are the julian or baby carrots. I still wash them even though the bags claim they are clean.

I completely get that it is a natural urge to be grossed out by critters in our food, but factually, our constant scrubbing and wanting to remove ourselves from our actual food sources is a much bigger health threat (as is the chemical threat pointed out by localeater). Standing down off soap box now.

It was a Giant washed salad bag that had a live scorpion in it.

I've been buying a lot of washed and bagged lettuce and vegetables. The convenience is a very attractive quality and makes it so much easier to pile on veggies when they're washed and cut already.

I think I'll inspect a little closer, but I'm not going to stop buying bagged for now.

"Wanting to remove ourselves from our actual food sources is a much bigger health threat".

If someone prefers to buy, cut, wash and prepare their own salad as opposed to buying bags that are at a higher risk of critters, bacteria and chemical preservatives and who knows what else, how is that a bigger health threat? Sure, fresh veggies have stuff too, but the less it's handled by producers the better. I'm not by any means a germophobe for myself because I have a healthy immune system and believe we need to be exposed to a variety of elements to keep that intact, but I'm really confused by your statement. Can you expand on it please? I mean historically people did just fine without bagged salads so how is it different now?

Scorpions are pretty sensitive to pesticides so that sort of speaks well from the standpoint of...oh never mind. I can't even... :)

I buy organic washed kale and dump the whole giant bag on the counter and sort through it. If I grew my own greens, I am quite sure I would have more critters and slugs than I want to ever see or imagine on, errr, food. Yeah, I like the supermarket removal from what's real.

I am growing tomatoes though and lots of herbs.