I don't always buy organic. I use primarily frozen veggies - fresh veggies and I do not have he best track record in my fridge, they always seem to go bad right under my nose and that worries me. And our small town rinky-dink grocery store has an abismal produce section - not always able to travel 15 min. to the nearest large chain grocery store either.

I kiss them both. All the time. Heck, when they go in to the AV's (and they are going in for their wellcheck next week), the AV assistant always smooches Jerry.

We have cats and a dog, but they are not allowed out when the birds are out. Not the most convenient, but at least everyone is more safe.

Having other animals is "against the rules"?

Well, I'm obviously in deep kaka, then! LOL!

I use aerosol hairspray maybe once or twice a week: always in a different room and door is closed.

So your not completely alone.

Compulsive handwasher here.

It seems some are concerned about feeding frozen veggies instead of fresh...unless you grow your own or purchase from a farmer's market and use it quickly the frozen veggies (without added salt or other stuff and not processed) can be more nutritional)

Here's part of an ariticle regarding fresh and frozen...link follows

“When fruits and vegetables are picked, they are still, in a sense, living organisms,” says Barbara Klein, PhD, professor emeritus of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “But once you take them off the vine, they immediately go into senescence, which is a decay process.” The cell membranes begin to break down, releasing enzymes that cause vitamins and phytochemicals to degrade. The process is irreversible.

Vegetables tend to lose their nutrients faster than fruits. (Strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, interestingly, may continue to gain a cancer-preventing phytochemical, anthocyanin, after they’re picked.) Nutrient loss is also accelerated in any produce that’s been cut, chopped or undergone tissue trauma (such as bruising).

But time itself is your biggest nutritional enemy. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University recently discovered that after eight days of storage at typical refrigerator temperature (about 40 degrees F.), fresh spinach loses almost half its folate, a vitamin-B compound essential for healthy blood and cells and, during pregnancy, for preventing birth defects.

The problem, of course, is that it can take up to three weeks, particularly in winter, for spinach and other fresh produce to travel from the field to your table. That’s where canned and frozen goods come to the rescue.

http://www.lifetimefitness.com/magaz...tArticleId=527

I don't disinfect cages, dishes, toys etc although I do wash them. I don't think disinfecting serves any useful purpose and has the potential to cause harm, either from me failing to rinse properly or from a low germ population leading to weakened immune systems. And I do a LOT of bird-kissing.

LOL, who can resist kissing sweet little Tiel faces!

OOPS! I kiss my all of my birds when I take them out to play and when I put them in to rest! I'm really lucky I have any lips left!!