{"id":1703,"date":"2004-11-12T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2017-09-19T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:50:57","slug":"1703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/12\/1703\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosy Beggars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what you should put in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/neighborhoods\/stories.nsf\/news\/story\/E2CF56844B6450BF86256F4600681362?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=What+goes+into+the+%22perfect+bag%22%3F\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;perfect&#8221; Scouting for Food bag<\/a> this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> 2 cans of hearty soup, stew or chili supply many nutrients;\n<li> 2 cans of tuna, chicken, salmon or luncheon meat contain protein and iron, and canned salmon is a source of calcium and omega-3 fatty acids;\n<li> 1 can of fruit supplies vitamins A and C, folate, potassium, fiber and other healthy substances;\n<li> 1 can of 100 percent pure fruit juice contains vitamin C and often beta carotene;\n<li> 1 can of vegetables supplies beta carotene, vitamin C, folate, complex carbohydrates, fiber and potassium;\n<li> 1 can of tomato or pasta sauce contains lycopene, a healthy substance that is more available to your body in canned and cooked tomatoes than in fresh tomatoes;\n<li> 1 canned meal offers a variety of ingredients and nutrients;\n<li> 1 can of beans contains plenty of protein, complex carbohydrates and fiber; and\n<li> 1 can of evaporated milk makes an excellent source of calcium and protein.<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;re getting out of the Noggle home again this year, same as last year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any cans of meat, such as Spam, we received as a joke.\n<li>Any stray cans of stuff that I bought on sale as a bachelor (but was too lazy to prepare) which archeological digs have uncovered in our pantry.\n<li>The annual can of clam chowder that I buy because I like clam chowder (but was too lazy to prepare).  Because Heather doesn&#8217;t like the the smell, she gets rid of the can by any means necessary.\n<li>A can of mandarin oranges.  Where do they keep coming from?\n<li>A can or two of corn or beans that we have, which we would eat on our own but because we have an extra, we throw it in.\n<li>Any cans of french-cut green beans bought by mistake.  Probably by me.<\/ul>\n<p>I mean, come on, it&#8217;s <i>charity<\/i>.  I give surplus and cast offs.  Whenever someone starts telling me what to give, I think he or she is about one step away from telling me what he or she wants to take and one and a half steps away from <b><i>just taking it<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what you should put in a &#8220;perfect&#8221; Scouting for Food bag this year: 2 cans of hearty soup, stew or chili supply many nutrients; 2 cans of tuna, chicken, salmon or luncheon meat contain protein and iron, and canned salmon is a source of calcium and omega-3 fatty acids; 1 can of fruit supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16919,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/16919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}