For the love of Rice!
I can’t believe it has been over a week now since I last wrote. So many movements going on, and Cyle has been an amazing coach/teacher/host. We are supposed to help him with the electrical then put the walls in. I can not wait!
So this one is a two parter. Jason and I are on day one of being vegan and I am so excited. We went to the grocery store yesterday and I thoroughly enjoyed exploring Whole Foods with him. He wandered through the isles in awe, collecting all the flax, chia, and hemp he could, hah. After a massive food haul and a few gadgets (including a Ninja!) we wandered back home to clean our glassware and cut up our big watermelon.
To give you guys a very vivid image of Jason he is a 6’6″ muscular Marine. I.e. he was eying every sasquatch meat stick in the store while holding tight to his veggie wrap and matcha green tea. He seems very excited about the whole thing, and I hope to be his support system because lord dropping all those habits will be hard.
I was vegan for a 7 month period previously and I really enjoyed it. My body felt better and I think my stories made him want to give it a go. Now we are stacked with all the berries, watermelon, edamame, and nuts. Can not forget alllll the nuts. Also! We found Len & Larry’s cookies, you know the like $2.00 a cookie for vegan protein cookies? We found them at Trader Joe’s for 86 cents each. We may have bought two whole boxes… Haha.
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On to the second topic, Rice Love. This is a beautiful company that sustainably produces bags and other products to help feed the hungry in Nepal and India. They are trying to grow to support the homeless in Hawaii too. But it is a beautiful thing. They employ and train local women in India to sew the bags out of used jute rice bags that would normally wind up in a landfill just contributing to the neglect. So with buying each bag you are helping to preserve the earth’s resources. Getting to why it is called Rice Love. Each bag is essentially a 1 kilo bag of rice donated. As they make the bags they donate a total of 20 kilos of rice to one family. That could essentially feed them for one whole month. They donate the rice before the bags are even sold as well.
Overall there literally is not a thing you could say wrong about what this amazing company does. Also when you get your bag there will be a tag attached with a red number on it. If you go to their website and enter in the number it will generate the actual family that bag helped feed. So beyond inspiring.
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” – Mother Theresa
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