Dear Friends
and Neighbors:
I like rice! We enjoy eating white rice 3 times a day here in the
Philippines. You should see the way the missionaries pile up the rice on
their plates at each meal. It looks like a small mountain! I
suspect that many of them have never eaten so well and so much food in their
lives as they do in the MTC. The rice fills up their belly. They
can eat as much as they want!
When asked in my final interview with them, what did you enjoy the most in the
MTC, they often answer, “the food!” We have a subtle contest to see who
will put on the most weight in the 19 days of MTC training. Can you
believe that some missionaries put on as much weight as 3-4 kilograms in the
first three days! – and 8-15 in the next few days! I am told by our
MTC Nurse-nutritionist that refined white rice is just empty calories. I
am told my Brother Villanueva, our manager of training that anything served
beyond rice is simply a side dish! (We eat a lot from the “side
dishes!).
I am now down to about a table spoon of rice at each meal. But better
rice than lice! Please refer to Sister Taylor’s “The nutritional value of
eat ants and weevil” attached.
Love,
George
& Debbie Taylor
The
Nutritional Value of Ants and Weevil
Recently,
after visiting the doctors I decided to turn over a new leaf for my health, and
eat American oatmeal for breakfast. Today while sitting at the table in the MTC
cafeteria eating the oatmeal with our senior couple, Elder Armstrong looked
down into his bowl of oatmeal and asked, “What is the food value of eating
ants?”
My
eyes widened as I realized that I had just finished my cereal. I laughed and
said that I would research the nutritional value of eating ants and weevil as
soon as I returned to my office. I remembered my father talking about eating
bread that he thought was cracked wheat, and then found out later that it was
cooked weevil.
Well,
I want to give you the official report on the nutritional value of eating aunts
and weevil. I’m sorry to tell you, but
you don’t get much food value out of either one, and if you did, you would have
to eat a lot. Needless to say, if it makes you feel better thinking the
nutrition value has improved the oatmeal or bread, you may continue to think
that way.
As
for me, I prefer plain oatmeal with sugar, cinnamon, and milk. Enjoy!
Debra
S. Taylor, August 2012
