This is how some of the UHT milk packets look like
I was thinking of how schools were given UHT packets of spoilt milk last year, thinking why was this happening. Milk is truly expensive in a country mainly exports it’s dairy products from Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The act of packing the milk in pricey UHT packages. The cost of transporting milk from packing factories to schools.
There are food just as good or better than dairy milk, and cheaper to boot too.
Why not make soy bean milk, barley water or red bean drinks instead for kids from poor families? Low cost, easy-to-make, full of protein and other minerals, filling, FRESHly made. Pay the canteen operator and skip the middle men who makes all the profit from distributing milk.
Just soak the beans overnight, dunk the beans into soy milk machine with water, sugar N pandan leaf. Fresh food in 1/2 hour.
While we are on the subject of healthy school food, why not ban sugary soda drinks like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and all those artificial drinks, hook up a water cooler machine and sell healthy drinks instead to kids and teens.
I just so love the banana leaf cups featured here. So gorgeous. And eco friendly too. Just eat whatever that is in the cup and then, toss the biodegradable cups into your compost heap. And yes, the Thai snacks shown are delectable looking as well aren’t they? The Thai lady chef who took these pictures is Kasma Loha-unchit. Currently, she’s got a Thai cooking school at Oakland, California, across the bay from San Francisco.
The instructions to make the biodegradable banana leaf cups are at eThaiCooking.com page.
Can you believe this is really good looking reusable sandwich bag was once an old shirt, a piece of scrap cloth and a clean Ziplock bag?
How cute. I love it when old stuff are brought back to live as a new and so reusable item.
So gorgeous, you’d want to bring it to work Every. Single. Day.
The bag just folds up and snaps shut with a piece of velcro
The inside of the bag is a gallon size Ziploc bag (cut apart)
It’s a breeze to make, doesn’t take much time at all. Best thing is, you can just drop it in the washing machine, and then hang it up to dry in time for the next use.
Apparently, there’s a new strain of rice that does not need to be cooked at all. Super duper crazy stuff for all you lazy cooks out there! Downside is, you gotta wait for the agri scientists in India to sell it to ya! This soft rice is called the Agihoni Bora rice.
Apparently, it just requires a long soak (45 minutes), and that’s it!
Can you imagine? Finally, we are able to eat raw rice that has not lost all the great enzymes that might have been destroyed during the cooking process. Also, it’s definitely environmentally safer because we don’t have to use any fuel to cook it. It’s a boon to the poor who can’t afford to buy fuel, that is if the Indian farmers decide to price the rice grains within the reach of the poor.
Image taken from http:/macrocosm-magbook.blogspot.com/2010/02/rice-grains-that-need-no-cooking.html
Yesterday, I came across SheChive.com that showed some really awesome images of what we can do with food. It’s too fabulous, really. The ones below are all raw food.
My personal favorite is the orange skin carrying the orange segments to the food processor.
Hubby and I were having lunch at a Japanese restaurant yesterday afternoon.
He was served his favorite Salmon sashimi (raw food) in what looked like frosted glass bowl. Halfway through the meal, he realized that the bowl was not frosted glass but was actually a bowl made of ice.
How cool is that? (Pardon the pun! LOL)
It’s definitely something I would like to make sometime to serve to guests.
