re: rice bags~ Amy

November 11, 2006

ideas on rice bags. I thought you might enjoy reading this. My mom also makes

an extra bag our of thin dish towels, sewed into the various shapes of the bag.

These bags are kind of like a pillow case for the bag. You side it off and wash

it, when needed. That way ones sweat doesn't get on the bag.

My mom says she has never had to replace her rice. She microwaves it often

enough that any bugs would be killed in the process. But it wouldn't be to

hard to take off the one seam that you make across the top after you fill it,

should you ever want to. I like the way the bags seems to have a bit of moist

heat to them, even though no moisture is added in any way to them.

Judy

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akfral

Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:03 AM

re: rice bags~ Judy

I like the idea of quilted bags...I usually use whatever I have on hand, a

knit or something soft.

I never channel mine, I don't know why I don't like it that way. Probably

because I eventually replace the rice and it would be a pain to pick out all

those stitches. We have all shapes and sizes of rice bags....big & fat, long

and skinny; small square ones (best for 4 year old daughter),

I like crisp sheets too but now that it is cold outside my feet are always

freezing. We all have electric blankets on our beds but I threw out the

controls years ago, I've heard so many scary reports of fires. So we just use

them

as plain old blankets, they are warm and I'm too cheap <cough, I meant

thrifty!> to throw out a perfectly good blanket, especially with the number of

kids that sometimes end up over here.

Back to vegetarian issues, I'm going to make quart size jars of bean soup

mix for my daughter's teachers and some friends. Its easy and inexpensive,

they

can reuse the jar if they want. I'll post the recipe if anyone wants it. AmyF

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