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stoppedtheinsanity
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Date: April 01, 2014 11:00AM
It a cold morning here and I was just cooking some steel cut oats for breakfast. As it was almost done cooking I started to pick out any dark colored specks that were there. Examining them before throwing them in the sink. It kind of made me laugh and I silently asked why I'm always doing that when I cook oats, because after I check each one they are only discolored pieces of the grain.
Then it came to me. Sitting at the kitchen table as a child eating my cracked wheat cereal which I detested, an older sibling has something stuck to her finger and is getting pretty worked up showing my parents that this dark speck is actually a weevil! We all protest and put our spoons down, refusing to finish our "breakfast". My dad nonchalantly says "they won't hurt you, they're good protein."
We knew from that day forth we would always have to check our bowls for weevil. Our parents couldn't be trusted to do it for us! Gross!
My parents used to store it in big drums and there was LOTS of it to use! So, not eating it was not an option. In those days when your parents threatened to not feed you if you wouldn't eat a meal, they meant it and you had to wait until the next one to eat. Which just may be cracked wheat again!!
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/01/2014 11:10AM by stoppedtheinsanity.