Thursday, January 17, 2013

Wheat is for Man!




That's right! Wheat, being nutritiously dense, contains most of the vitamins and minerals necessary to comfortably sustain human life. Since we are surrounded by ultra refined rice cooked to death and  vegetables boiled and cooked out of nutritious existence, it is extremely difficult to come by food that feeds the body and nourishes the soul.  However, instead of succumbing to the adverse conditions and filling our stomachs with dead fillers we have found and commenced eating organic wheat.  How did we find it? That in itself was an adventure. Sandra, the director of FFC, gave us a couple of addresses to organic shops, so merrily we went to visit one. When we arrived at the supposed destination there was nothing that looked like an organic food store.  But, we did not fret because that is normal.  Luckily, we were with a couple natives and we had them call the number provided with the address. Come to find out it was still closed for the holiday of Pungal,  holidays usually take several days in India, but we ascertained the correct location, which was tucked away in an adjacent side road.  Next day, we paid a call on the shop and paid the price for the organic wheat and other grains and foods we bought.  Wheat, though it is for man, poses, unfortunately, a difficult problems in eating soaked, low heated, and plain, because it is almost unpalatable, and we have no raw honey or other natural healthy sweeteners to make it edible.
However, never do we falter or permit small inconveniences from stopping us.  Mani had the innovative idea to extract the juice from the sugarcane.  Great idea, but how? We started first by beating the poor sugarcane until it split several times longways then we twisted and squeezed it.  Effective? Well, sort of.  At last we reverted to stripping the sugarcane of its hard purple colored shell, cutting the inside into small pieces, blending it to a powder, then squeezing and straining the pulp in a cloth t to produce the sweet watery juice.  Fortunately, this worked better, and we were able to enjoy our wheat to a higher degree than before.  The moral of the story is never buy wheat unless you have something sweet to eat it with...maybe not.  The moral of the story is; if you are determined to do something you will always find a way to do it! (except, maybe, for exterminating all of the mosquitoes, I am still trying to find a solution for that one, heeehee)

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