Another gift from our missionary friend which we have coined Novelty Jesus Packets.  On one hand, we are always grateful for the gifts bestowed on behalf of Jesus.  On the other hand, we are aghast at this type of processed food in a packet.  Each pack is supposed to hold one meal of pasta or rice.  We found out that you can buy these rinky-dink things for $5.00 Belize Dollars.  Do you know you can buy 5lbs of rice with that money?  Or, five packets of pasta?  Scary!!

We tried the Chicken rice one…apparently you have to add your own half chicken and 1/2 lb slab of Monterey cheese to complete the meal.  Am I missing something then?  What is the point in buying the packet when you have to buy all the ingredients for it?  Might as-well just buy rice, right?

We did attempt to cook it as a meal.  However, I did not have the chicken and cheese to go with it:

The original meal was supposed to be the rice portion on the upper left side.  I had to add the rest because it looked rather pale, anaemic and sorry-looking.  I added the greens to the rice to give it a bit of colour.  The eggs and bread were a “last minute” make-over because the rice meal lacked ooomph!!  Our verdict of the packeted rice:  very, very salty and no interesting or pleasing flavour.  Rather mundane.  Nonetheless, the gift still provided an experience that we would otherwise not have and so I can now be certain that we are not missing out!