I’m continuing with the Ration Challenge. For this week, my diet consists of the same rations provided to Syrian Refugees in Jordan. This is a fundraiser for Church World Service. You can make your donation at this link:

•  https://www.rationchallengeusa.org/richard-clem

Since I have a limited choice of ingredients, it’s understandable that there’s a lot of repetition.  For lunch, I again had soup.  with  rice and chicken bouillon.    On Wednesday, it also contained chickpeas (garbanzo beans), and on Thursday it contained  lentils.

Based upon my fundraising success, I earned a few bonus items.  These included a potato and two eggs.  My dinner both days consisted of fried potatoes and egg, shown above.

I had a total of about 9 cups of rice, and I’ve only used about a cup per day.  I used some of it today to make the rice cakes shown here.  (The recipe can be found on my Sunday post.)

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I’m continuing with the Ration Challenge. For this week, my diet consists of the same rations provided to Syrian Refugees in Jordan. This is a fundraiser for Church World Service. You can make your donation at this link:

•  https://www.rationchallengeusa.org/richard-clem

My lunch Monday was similar to what I had Sunday, except my soup, shown above, contained  chickpeas (garbanzo beans)  rather than  lentils.  It also contained  rice and chicken bouillon.  I served it with the rice cakes I made Sunday. (which I made yesterday), which contains about 1/4 cup of flour.

Supper consisted of rice and about a third of the can of sardines.  I served it with the flatbreads shown here.  They contained a total of a half cup of flour, a little oil, and water.  I had some rice left over, and I had some both Monday night and Tuesday morning with a little milk.

Lunch Tuesday consisted of the same lentil soup as Sunday, along with a couple of rice cakes.  For dinner Tuesday, I made more flatbread, and made some patties from the remaining sardines (1/3 can), rice, a little flour, and a little oil.  I fried them up, and they were palatable:

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Today was my first day of the Ration Challenge. For this week, my diet consists of the same rations provided to Syrian Refugees in Jordan. This is a fundraiser for Church World Service. You can make your donation at this link:

•  https://www.rationchallengeusa.org/richard-clem

My first meal is shown above.  I made soup from rice, lentils, and chicken bouillon.  I served it with one flatbread (which I made yesterday), which contains about 1/4 cup of flour.  I am allowed one spice for the challenge, and surprisingly, the bouillon qualifies as a “spice.”  It is very helpful, since it will turn just about anything into chicken soup.  As an added bonus, it also provides a few needed calories.

Since I have more rice than I have flour, I decided to use some of the rice for making a cake, shown here.  Using an electric coffee grinder, I turned the rice into flour and added a little oil.  I added enough water for a doughy consistency, and fried it on the griddle.  It was a little bland, but should go well with soup, sardines, or beans.

Dinner consisted of the rice leftover from lunch, fried with 1/4 can of sardines (and the oil in the sardine can), along with the last piece of flatbread and a glass of (unsweetened) iced tea:

To prepare for tomorrow, I made another batch of rice cakes and put them in the refrigerator.  This time, I remembered to add a little salt.   I also put half of my chickpeas (garbanzo beans) in to soak overnight, and I’ll add them to my soup tomorrow.

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Here’s the bulk of what I’ll be eating Sunday as I start the one week Ration Challenge. I won’t have time to cook in the morning, so I had to do some pre-cooking.

The flatbread isn’t bad, if I do say so myself. I used one cup of flour, a half cup from the house, and a half cup from my rations. So half is to test today, and the other two breads are for tomorrow.

The rice will mostly go in soup, since I’m allowed to use chicken bouillon as my “spice.” I also started soaking half of my lentils, which I’ll add to the soup as my protein for the day.

Thank you to those who have donated already. If you are able, please consider making a small (or large) donation. I’m about $72 away from getting the luxury of one (1) vegetable to enjoy during the week! So your generous early donations will prevent needless suffering. On the other hand, if you don’t like me and want me to suffer, then wait until next Sunday evening, and make a huge donation then!

Either way, your donation helps Syrian refugees who are going through the same exercise, through no fault of their own.

Donations go to Church World Service, which has an extremely good reputation for making sure donations efficiently go to where they are needed. You can make your donation at this link:

•  https://www.rationchallengeusa.org/richard-clem

Here’s an update on the Ration Challenge I will be taking from June 13-19. Please consider donating to Church World Service to assist Syrian refugees. You can read more and donate at this link:

https://www.rationchallengeusa.org/richard-clem