Advise

Dear Clumsy Carly, It sounds like you had quite a party. I'm sorry your dinner made people sick because it sounded really good. Unfortunately, as I was reading your letter I saw you did some things wrong which resolved to your party disaster. One thing you did wrong was use the same cutting board to get both the veggies and burgers ready. This is bad because if the hamburger is contaminated the vegtables will also get contaminated. Another thing you did was not wash your hands after you touched the dog. You should always wash your hands after touching an animal, especially if you know it has fleas. You should also have cooked the hamburger off at 145 degrees F and reheated at at 155 degrees F to make sure any bad bacteria is cooked off of it and it's safe to eat. After buying your beef, you should have refrigerated it to defrost on the bottom shelf so that the juice doesn't drip down onto other foods and contaminate them and so it can defrost slowely and stay cold. When buying milk immediatly after returning home, take it out and refrigerate it to prevent it from spoiling. When washing the dishes you always want to make sure you are washing them in warm water to kill all the germs and using a clean dishtowel to dry them off so all the bacteria is off and your not spreading more. The last thing you did wrong was put the vegetables on the same plate the raw hamburger had been on. You should not put any food on a plate that had raw meat because if the raw meat had any bad bacteria on it, the other food would have gotten it too through cross contamination.

Hope this helps! Sincerely, Epic Fail