Thanksgiving Gluttony Penance!

Well there you are, watching the football game or just kicking back, pants unbuttoned because you just ate too much. You know, gluttony is a sin. Especially when there are people starving at this very moment. So Granny's going to act as the "Ever-so-High Priestess of the Ganja Goddess", and assign you your penance! ;)

Your penance is, since you have had more than your share of munchies today, you must provide for the hungry! I want you to go to the site below and play the game. You can do the vocabulary words, or even just the multiplication tables (hit "Change Subjects"). But play until you have equaled, in grains of rice, the number of calories you consumed today.

FreeRice

"According to some research, the average Thanksgiving meal is a whopping 3,000 calories. Nibble your way through some leftovers, and you could be consuming more than 4,000 calories in one day!" That is from-

Avoid Thanksgiving Weight Gain - Associated Content

(Add a couple of slices of Mom's Pecan Pie with whipped cream and you better add another 1,000 calories!) :eat:


The game is EASY- they give you a word (or multiplication problem) and 4 possible answers. You pick one and you earn 20 grains of rice for the UN World Food program. You are feeding the starving! 4,000 grains sounds hard, but you get 20 grains of rice for every right answer (no penalty for wrong answers). So even if you think that you ate 4,000 calories today, that's only 200 words or problems. (My 3rd graders do 100 multiplication problem worksheets every day! You're a big kid and can do more than a 3rd grader!)

I've done 10,000 grains a day, every day (and I'm on dial up!) since right before Xmas. I get kids at school to practice multiplication with it (and BOY do they need that practice!). It should take the place of that dumb solitaire game ( or what-ever you do to fill those "wasted minutes") on YOUR computer. You can play it for 10 seconds, or 10 hours, but play it every day. Make a big difference in some someone's life! :thumbsup:

Granny :hippy:

OK, I'll do it. Sounds like a good cause. Thanks for pointing it out.:)

I answered 7 questions and gave 10$ for each that I got wrong...

Drum roll...

I gave em $50...

A little bit of a struggle to give em my money...They wanted to know who recommended me,etc...I wanted to say StormCrow but she wasn't on the list...I went with KFC,lol...:jointsmile:

I never got past level fifty on the vocabulary words! They kept throwing obscure Scottish words at me:)

Anyway lots of fun and I gave them 6000 grains of rice, wonder how much that is in lbs?

By the way, didn't have that many calories today! This is making me hungry....

How many grains does $50 buy,lol???

The first 2 questions where a snap...I answered the next five multiple choice questions incorrectly and said to heck with it...I'm not educated...I never finished 10th grade...I wasn't into it but the $50 is real and I hope that buys alot of grains...:jointsmile:

In Canada Thanksgiving is in early October, so I've lost all the excess weight by now.

1680 donated so far, and still going.