i dropped a piece of chicken on the ground/DINING ROOM rug.....

this is in our dining room where we ALWAYS Eat, i dropped my chicken but picked it up again and ate it, could i have eaten more calories from the dirty-food-crusted rug? (kind of paranoid my family spills sugar, oil, etc everywhere)

...are you kidding, or..?

i suggest using the tools on this site. type in "dirty, food-crusted rug" in the search box and hit 'enter'. ;)

(hey, ask a silly question, get a silly answer).

 

Haha!
Whatever extra calories the chicken may have picked up were burned by you bending over to pick it up!
No worries! :O)

LOL. This thread is hilarious.

You actually may have eaten LESS calories, as some of the chicken calories could have migrated to the rug while rug calories rubbed onto on the chicken? So I suppose you would end up about even-- that is, if encrusted rug calories are around the same value as chicken calories. 

seriously.

my family's rug is famous for being food-dirty-->flour, sugar, candy, other food.

could ANY calories have been added on? sugar rubbed onto chicken? Oil?

Seriously then. If they DID, it is not enough to matter.

It is important to remember that EVERY calorie label you read is just an estimate. They are rounded. And the amount of calories you burn during exercise is an estimate also, as are your daily burn meter etc on this site.

So don't get hung up over it.

Even is a TINY bit of sugar or oil rubbed onto the chicken, which I doubt because it would have sunk into the carpet, then it is not enough to change the nutrition of the chicken. 

If you are seriously bothered by this possiblilty, I have to ask, do you have OCD? because honestly, that is not a normal fear.

I think it's a legit concern.  If I dropped something on a counter that had salt spilled onto it, I'd be worried about my sodium intake. 

I think you're going to be fine.  And if you do this occassionally, you've probably got one heck of an immune system, too.

I think it's a legit concern.  If I dropped something on a counter that had salt spilled onto it, I'd be worried about my sodium intake. 

I think you're going to be fine.  And if you do this occassionally, you've probably got one heck of an immune system, too.

exactly, !!! im just worried about similar things, especially since my family eats TONS Of sugar foods/spills it everywhere/oils, etc (bags of sugar)

Eh.  If it tasted better, why complain? =)  Were you breaking the calorie bank or did you have a few you could spare?  I think, at most, the calories you would've picked up from a bit of extra sugar would barely hit chewing-gum level. 

On another note.. How often do you get sick?

Uhh maybe you guys should try vacuuming or cleaning once in a while..

we do clean every so often, but its the rug RIGHT under the kitchen counter/table, sugar/fat/oil/crumbs ALWAYS get on it. (baker/cooking family=death for dieter)

I sent in a request a few days ago to have "dirty, food-crusted rug" added to the database.  Why don't you check to see if it's in there yet?

The very same "5 second rule" which permits dropped food to be retrieved and still eaten, clearly states, in subsection (c)(1)(3) that any dropped food that is deposited onto a dirty floor GAINS five calories, whereas any dropped food that is deposited onto a clean floor LOSES five calories.

If we can answer any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

=^..^= MOLLY

When in doubt...rub it off. Just take a paper towl or dish rag and dry the stinkin' chicken off, lol.

Hahah, honestly, I wouldn't worry though. Unless your family is literally spilling cups of oil or bowls of salt, it's probobly fine.

The carpet would soak it up quite nicely, I'd think. :-)

Hmmmm.  How many calories are there in 100 bazillion bacteria?  Are bacteria high in protein?  

It sounds like an interesting question, but not a real big issue calorie wise.

If you are completely serious about this, could you put a piece of plastic or a small piece of cloth or something under your chair at the table?  That way you could control the situation a bit more.

Of course, you could also just dispose of the dropped food and not eat it.  Apparently there is other dropped food that is not consumed...

Another alternative would be to determine the calories in one teaspoon of sugar and just add it to your calorie count each time you eat dropped food that has picked up "stuff."   It won't be exact, but it will allow you to account for something.

Good luck with this.  I truly couldn't tell how serious you are, but it sure got me thinking.  :-)

Personally I'd be more worried about the fleck of dog poop that fell of your shoe or the 100's of fuzzies that stuck to it, than the grain of salt...but hye, that's just me! LOL

GOd made dirt and dirt don't hurt?

I assume the ten second rule was applied.  If you were outside of ten seconds the chicken should have been discarded but under ten seconds you have no worries.

I prescribe to the 5 second rule as outlined by Molly!