Rice and Beans
Well, I am now on the 8th day of rice and beans month. It has been quite an experience already! The first couple of days was difficult - everytime I would eat, I found myself hungry about an hour after I finished a meal. Then it got easier, and I was really enjoying the rice and lentils that I was eating over and over again.
But on Saturday, we had a retreat group. And racers. Those people aren't doing rice and beans month. Those people are doing eat-whatever-wonderfully-delicious-foods-I-want month. And believe me, their food smelled wonderfully delicious! Meredith, the kitchen manager, is a magician in the kitchen - I am pretty sure she makes the best camp food on the planet. And kitchen magician Meredith was cooking all the meals for the retreat and the racers.
Lunch was pizza. And some sort of cheesy garlic bread. As they ate it, it looked so SOFT and so CHEESY and it smelled SO GOOD. I watched them eat it as I thought of the rice and beans I would be eating as soon as they were done with their meal.
Dinner was some crazy pasta combination with bacon and chicken and cheese and who knows what other delicious ingredients. And there were breadsticks. And dessert was my favorite kind of cookie - white chocolate macadamian nut. It was so much harder than I could have imagined! I was ravenously hungry and REALLY wanting to just eat it all.
Now that the group is gone and the kitchen magic is temporarily on hold, I am not struggling near as much. I really like rice. A lot. And I have discovered that I really like lentils. And I like beans, but not the ones I cooked. I must have done something wrong, because I don't like them much at all!
The rest of the month will be quite a challenge - there are tons of people coming through camp. And lots of kitchen magic going on. But I am determined to make it! I want to stay strong and follow through on this commitment. I feel like if for no other reason, just to stand with my brothers and sisters in Christ in East Africa. They deserve it.
But on Saturday, we had a retreat group. And racers. Those people aren't doing rice and beans month. Those people are doing eat-whatever-wonderfully-delicious-foods-I-want month. And believe me, their food smelled wonderfully delicious! Meredith, the kitchen manager, is a magician in the kitchen - I am pretty sure she makes the best camp food on the planet. And kitchen magician Meredith was cooking all the meals for the retreat and the racers.
Lunch was pizza. And some sort of cheesy garlic bread. As they ate it, it looked so SOFT and so CHEESY and it smelled SO GOOD. I watched them eat it as I thought of the rice and beans I would be eating as soon as they were done with their meal.
Dinner was some crazy pasta combination with bacon and chicken and cheese and who knows what other delicious ingredients. And there were breadsticks. And dessert was my favorite kind of cookie - white chocolate macadamian nut. It was so much harder than I could have imagined! I was ravenously hungry and REALLY wanting to just eat it all.
Now that the group is gone and the kitchen magic is temporarily on hold, I am not struggling near as much. I really like rice. A lot. And I have discovered that I really like lentils. And I like beans, but not the ones I cooked. I must have done something wrong, because I don't like them much at all!
The rest of the month will be quite a challenge - there are tons of people coming through camp. And lots of kitchen magic going on. But I am determined to make it! I want to stay strong and follow through on this commitment. I feel like if for no other reason, just to stand with my brothers and sisters in Christ in East Africa. They deserve it.
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I have failed miserably, I made it (kinda) one week! That is it! I like rice and beans, don't get me wrong! But just rice and beans, almost killed me... (i think)
We are so cool btw! Did you know that!?!?!? Well I did, so I thought I would share it with you! ;)
Take it ease home skillet!