VeianetCorn with Worm
August 25th 2010 17:34
Family Canteen:
Category: My Garden and not
Yum! These are great, sweet, tasty and juicy corn. Everyone enjoyed the snack - corn on the cob. The corn were cut, mostly the top part is missing.
One of the kids ask why the top part is gone. I told them how the corn were harvested, having to be careful with the weeds around it because they were sticky and prickly. As I was peeling them, the top showed sandy looking moist and dark stuff. There were worms in it and so the top part were mostly chopped off.
The kids hearing the word worm, in chorus said "EWWWWW" gross... Some tried to spit the corn out, which is not easy to do. After learning about the worms in the corn, everyone stood up and stop eating the corn. After all, they did all the cooking and I was left with so many to enjoy for the rest of the day!
That incident made me wonder on how our brain can really destroy or restore us. It is that bad, knowing things that we do not expect, something that we do not want to know and the truth. It is hard to even imagine how that can happen. We always see the food as clean, neatly package and in the right temperature sitting on the store shelf. But do we really know where our food come from? Do we really know what it is made of and how? We are so comfortable buying from the store, ready to cook and convenient meals we share each dinner time with families and friends. But do we really want to know? Or convenience made a good impression that store bought food becomes what we call real food and do not want to deal with garden grown food?
I like to know where my food come from. I planted the corn, took care of it and when it is time to enjoy it, the worms got in there before me.
The worm so comfy and relax, laying on the corn, eating whenever hungry and can ruined the whole corn. You can see worms in different sizes and shades. It's like a worm living in the Garden of Eden, so plentiful and bountiful.
So, what am I gonna do? Throw it away? After all the hard work I have done, not to mention the time and money spent for watering and buying the seeds? In no way, I would waste a dime.
We are enjoying our corn everyday sans the worm. I wash them and chop off the part where the worm was enjoying. It still taste the same and no more mention of worms ( which helps a lot).
Corns are high-fiber, fat-fighting kernels of goodness,and satisfying to eat. It is also a source of several vitamins, including folic acid, niacin, and vitamin C. Not only they are beneficial, corn is also attractive to the kids because they are sweet.
I dare eat the corn without any ewww because it came from my garden and not from nowhere....
Organic corn planted this year. Looks good to me!
The kids hearing the word worm, in chorus said "EWWWWW" gross... Some tried to spit the corn out, which is not easy to do. After learning about the worms in the corn, everyone stood up and stop eating the corn. After all, they did all the cooking and I was left with so many to enjoy for the rest of the day!
That incident made me wonder on how our brain can really destroy or restore us. It is that bad, knowing things that we do not expect, something that we do not want to know and the truth. It is hard to even imagine how that can happen. We always see the food as clean, neatly package and in the right temperature sitting on the store shelf. But do we really know where our food come from? Do we really know what it is made of and how? We are so comfortable buying from the store, ready to cook and convenient meals we share each dinner time with families and friends. But do we really want to know? Or convenience made a good impression that store bought food becomes what we call real food and do not want to deal with garden grown food?
I like to know where my food come from. I planted the corn, took care of it and when it is time to enjoy it, the worms got in there before me.
Green worm enjoying Corn
Brown Worm Enjoying Corn
The worm so comfy and relax, laying on the corn, eating whenever hungry and can ruined the whole corn. You can see worms in different sizes and shades. It's like a worm living in the Garden of Eden, so plentiful and bountiful.
So, what am I gonna do? Throw it away? After all the hard work I have done, not to mention the time and money spent for watering and buying the seeds? In no way, I would waste a dime.
We are enjoying our corn everyday sans the worm. I wash them and chop off the part where the worm was enjoying. It still taste the same and no more mention of worms ( which helps a lot).
Corns are high-fiber, fat-fighting kernels of goodness,and satisfying to eat. It is also a source of several vitamins, including folic acid, niacin, and vitamin C. Not only they are beneficial, corn is also attractive to the kids because they are sweet.
I dare eat the corn without any ewww because it came from my garden and not from nowhere....
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