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I was once making a cake (just for me) and had turned the layers out to cool. I didn't know the cat was in and I left them "unguarded" on the table. When I returned to the kitchen, the cat was snuggled down on my soft warm chocolate cake 
apparantly it was very comfy. Needless to say I did get any desert that night.
sorry but cats in the kitchen especially on your kitchen countertops is disqusting!
Agree.
Luckily my cat could care less about cake and icings. She loves cheese! So I have to keep an eye on my Doritos & cheese puffs 
I have both a cat and a dog but when i start to do anything in my kitchen (pets not allowed in kitchen though ) in their crates they both go. i guess its become a habbit i usto not stand them begging when we are having dinner . So I put an end to that
I love them both but no, but not my hubby so when he came home one day and saw the cat on the counter asleep, that was it .He rushed to Pet store and bought crates for both.
Some of my best memories with my mom was arguing with my brother over who got to lick the bowl and who got to lick the beaters. I swear my mom could scrape the color off the bowl getting that batter/frosting out. I always wished she'd leave me a big lump. I still lick the batter bowl if I want. Chickens back then didn't have salmonella like they can/do have now. The exposure has made it more commong. I think I read something like 1 in 100 eggs, that could be wrong. I wouldn't let a very young child eat it now just for fear, or maybe it's because I want it all for me...haha
almost all cat's will venture on to the counter, but a water squirt bottle works well, im sorry about you cake, my first one avalanched, We as kid couldn't wait for those beaters either cake mix or frosting, not like there is a whole lot on them. my kid's to when they were young
Luckily my cat could care less about cake and icings. She loves cheese! So I have to keep an eye on my Doritos & cheese puffs
Ditto on that, and I have 3, the oldest does not like swiss but will eat his weight in velveeta or cheddar, the middle hates cheddar, and loves swiss, and the little one is following his "brothers" and likes both so far. Cheetos are not safe even in the bag tied up. Once came home to a Chester Cheetah, all you could see was the tail going back and forth. Poked his head out and it was orange, chin to ears, and then went back for more, should have had a camera!
Good Moms let you lick the beaters, Great Moms turn the mixer off first! 
But serious...you can get sick from just about anything if it's not been treated properly. You actually have a greater risk getting salmonella from leafy green vegetables (romaine and spinach in particular) than raw eggs, and you don't see parents getting chastised for giving their children salads! The chances of getting sick from licking a beater or sneaking a bite of raw dough is similar to the odds of winning the lottery, so I don't worry about it. But the day I get sick from it is the day I buy a PowerBall ticket! 
I have cats and I wouldn't eat a cake my kitties got a hold of. Good call on tossing it out. What a waste of a good cake!
So pleased to hear the cake got thrown out And that I am not alone in the beater liking although my kids named my hand mixer beaters Sam and Ella as a joke 
No cats.......but my 3 yr old has destroyed quite a few cakes LOL. She took a fork and ate half of a cake I had iced and sitting before putting fondant on it...... stuck candles in the side of a fully decorated cake. Poked holes in one with her fingers... I think after the trouble she's been into about my cakes she has finally learned her lesson......I'm holding my breath and knocking on wood while posting this
No cats.......but my 3 yr old has destroyed quite a few cakes LOL. She took a fork and ate half of a cake I had iced and sitting before putting fondant on it...... stuck candles in the side of a fully decorated cake. Poked holes in one with her fingers... I think after the trouble she's been into about my cakes she has finally learned her lesson......I'm holding my breath and knocking on wood while posting this
That's cute though, great memories. She was only helping with the candles
We rescued a dog and he had never been tempted by anything in the kitchen until we brought home our new baby. We left the house for a few minutes and he ate an entire plate of applesauce cookies baked with Splenda for my diabetic parents. I think the tummy ache cured him of snatching things off the counter.
Our 2 year old learned about candy the same way. At church someone was giving her lifsavers and after the third one I realized they were sugar free. She had an upset stomach and spent all afternoon in the bathroom. Now everytime she has a tummy ache she tells us she's had too much candy.
My mom has an adorable photo of my brother and I when we were younger, sharing a beater. You know, the double kind that you turned manually? So cute, we both have these looks of eager anticipation and a half-smile with our tongues just getting ready to stick out and lick the whipped cream off the beater. ADORABLE! What you DON'T see, is that as soon as the photo was taken, I purposely turned the beater on my brother's tongue. as far as I'm concerned, THAT is the only danger in letting your kids lick the beaters!!!!
Ooooh, my mouth still hurts, reading your post! Isn't it terrible how mean we can be to our siblings when we are little? It's a wonder, sometimes, that we ever have adult families! Having said that...
We always enjoyed licking the beaters, myself, mother and on back. As my children came, they enjoyed the same. It was fine while I had two boys = two beaters. Third boy = the bowl. Fourth boy, I had my first KA. Ooops, now the balance was skewed. They went from scrounging tidbits from the beaters, etc, to getting a big spoonful each with no work. Progress brings benefits!
I still love and always will love raw cookie dough. And yes, adore salads.
I've already said that I eat raw cookie dough, but just remember...Just because you've never gotten sick from food poisoning doesn't mean you won't! And if you've ever had the "24 hour flu" you were sick from food poisoning. There's no virus that goes through you in 24 hours, but there sure as heck are bacteria that do. My MIL got food poisoning last week and was throwing up for two days and felt sick for two more after that. She's 88 so it was worse in her than it would be for someone else, most likely. I think that she got it from a little thing called "the buffet."
I have to say that none of my kids have ever had any sickness bugs, 24hr or more so I am banging on the wood and hoping they never do
I have to say that none of my kids have ever had any sickness bugs, 24hr or more so I am banging on the wood and hoping they never do
I'm lucky that way too, because I can't take any kind of stomach problems. I told my husband before we had kids that I can handle the nastiest diaper, but if they ever got something where they were vomiting, they would be his kids alone! I think that my son has been sick like that once in his entire life and he's 14, and my daughter maybe once and she's 11. Now that I wrote that I expect one of them will be sick tonight, I've probably cursed myself 
My eldest two kids aged 16 and 14 have only ever had time off school for funerals in all of their school life and my 13 year old son has never had any time off school in 10 years 
He was even so nice as to break his elbow at school on the last day of term and was able to go back to school after the break and my youngest two boys aged 10 and 9 have only had silly illnesses like an ear infection and one put a fork through his lip and needed stitches. My daughter has never had any illness other than being born with cerebral palsy
one put a fork through his lip and needed stitches.
I don't want to completely hijack this thread, but how do you manage to put a fork through your lip?
OOPPS sorry for hyjacking 
He was holding a folk in his hand and tried to climb over a chair, slipped and poked the folk through his lip from out side to the inside 
He sent me into full blown labour with my daughter
I think this thread has long been hijacked, but it has certainly evolved into something fun. Costumeczar, believe it or not, I do really agree with you. I know that just because I or my kids haven't gotten sick, doesn't mean that is isn't possible. (Knock on wood...) I suppose it is like I would never do canning like our grandmothers used to, using the oven. For low acid vegetables I always use my pressure canner. Obviously grandma lived to be able to have my dad but many in those days didn't. I guess I just have to choose my poison.
Scrummumummy, I had to laugh at your story. (Sorry for your son, and I don't think you really intended to go into labor at that time.) But one of my sons branded himself when he was little. He got into an altercation with his older brother (as was usual with four boys within five years!) and was shoved against the hot wall space heater. He still has a lovely spiral brand,I suppose since I haven't seen it since he grew up!
I was alraedy in slow labour and being my 6th baby I was high risk but she still held on another 24 hours all without pain relief I had 5 boys in 7 years and my daughter came along 6 years after my last son 
I had a strange and very painful incident with my sister when we where kids. I was putting on my school uniform, when having an argument with my sister, who is 4 years older than me decided that she had had enough and pushed my backwards, straight into the fire. still to this day we don't speak and i have a scar on my HUGE bottom after having lots of surgery
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