I think they would all be fine to compost.

When you something that might have eggs. Put it in the freezer for a couple of days. It will freeze all of the eggs.

I toss everything from the kitchen into the compost... unused food, cooking stuff, leftovers, bread, milk, cheese, everything (minus old baking soda or other things that might have an extreme salts or ph). Eggs/moths definitely won't hurt anything outside. I don't do the super crazy stuff like deer carcasses or tons of fish bones... bad neighbors. There are fun-to-read "Extreme Composters" here on the site.... that should be a show on TLC.

My pile is the a standard 4x4x4 double bin system, so it large enough that these food stuffs don't cause the pile to get thrown off, smell, or go rancid from throwing away the typically "bad" items. My yard also has some woods/horse farm a yard away... so I am also okay with scavengers coming through and poking around for a free meal.

I know not everyone has the same set up... but If it rots...I thrown it in.

Last winter I cleaned out my mom's pantry and there was a lot of very old stuff from pasta to flour to beans and everything in between. It all went into the compost layered with leaves and other kitchen scraps. Probably 20 lb of stuff in a bin made of a square plastic trash can. I wet it down well. By last week when I visited, it was compost.

Those items wil be fine in the compost pile. Any eggs, or larva, of pantry, grain, or meal moths will be digested during the process. Any that may escape will be eaten by any predators out there.

kimmq is kimmsr

kinda like this...

I'd throw it all in, food, moths, and all!

kinda like this...

"We're gonna need a bigger compost bin."

Thanks to everyone for the responses, i'm chucking it all in. I use a simple pile method, and there are tons of worms when i turn it. So i feel like it's close enough to vermicomposting.

Nevermore44 Very good! LOL NT

cyn, I have a 2'x2'x4' high compost bin (from the city) that I'm using again this year for composting (cold) . Any excess food scraps that are too much for my worm bis go into that one. In the spring I put about 1/2 lb. of my worms in there and they're doing just fine. Seems to be composting very quickly. It's only about 1/3 full but the worms have lots of room to move away from anything they don't like or if it heats up a bit.

So I say throw all your goodies in there, add a few browns, (I often use a sprinkle of sawdust), keep it moist and nature will do the rest.

By the way, it was that same 4' high bin where I got my first redworms. They just populated the bin all on their own!

Harry