{"id":2451,"date":"2017-01-21T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/?page_id=2451"},"modified":"2020-04-10T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:02:16","slug":"bug-banquet-feb-17-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/bug-banquet-feb-17-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug Banquet Feb. 17, 2017: Food Pantry Benefit Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

We held a benefit dinner at the  Capon Bridge Community Center<\/a>, in<\/span> Capon Bridge, WV.  We served a bunch of bug based dishes.  (Check the menu.)  About 30 folks, a really fun crowd, donated $513.00 to<\/span> the Capon Bridge Food Pantry. The Maurers, photographer and reporter for the <\/span>Hampshire Review<\/a>. were in attendance.  I appreciated the note of encouragement from <\/span>Chef PV<\/a>.  Why don’t you check out his <\/span>Buggin’ Out<\/a> <\/span>episodes.<\/span><\/h1>\n
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 The food pantry struggles to meet the needs of hungry families in our community. (1st<\/sup> purpose for the banquet.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A 2nd<\/sup> purpose of this banquet is to enlarge the awareness of insects as an alternative food source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Future CEO’s of Bug Co.?Terry Lynn’s Bug Brownies (From Kim)<\/p><\/div>\n

Menu<\/span>      <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pre dinner samples: <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong>Exo<\/a>,<\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span><\/span>Jurassic<\/a>, and Lithic Nutrition<\/a> protein bars<\/span>..<\/span><\/span> Chips and  Salsa w\/ Livinfarms.com<\/a> mealworms  and Bug Bistro<\/a> and Aspire<\/a> crickets<\/p>\n

HOTLIX<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/cite> snacks,<\/span><\/h6>\n

N-sects-y sushi (cooked mealworms in sushi rice rolls) Bug-itos –burritos with rice or Bug Eater Foods<\/a> brown cricket rice , Rainbow Mealworm<\/a>  and Seginus Farms<\/a> mealworms, and cockroach nymps from AaronPauling.com<\/a> , beans, tomato, cheese, lettuce and IncredibleFoods<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Sal de Cricket (salt, cricket and chili<\/span> Crik-cakes (cricket pancakes) w\/ Aspire<\/a> and Jurassic<\/a>,cricket flours<\/span><\/span> Pepperoni  rolls made with Aspire<\/a>  snack Cricket Power Powder. Brownies made with Jurassic<\/a> snacks Cricket Power Powder. Bug Eater Foods<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Jump Cricket Protein shakes Doggy bag (for the dog– really) : Chloe\u2019s Treats<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Hopn Bakery<\/a><\/span><\/span> criskets and Entobento<\/a> <\/span>(dog biscuits)<\/p>\n

Program  <\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u201cLet Them Eat Bugs\u201d 45 min. entomophagy slideshow<\/p>\n

This  webpage lists producers<\/span><\/strong> of insect based products<\/a>.  Many of the attendees asked where they could purchase their own.<\/p>\n

You can check out my blog: Ento Treats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some comments and photos from the Bug Banquet:  From Doug<\/a>, Naomi<\/a>, Kim<\/a>, and Chels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"N-sectsy-sushi,<\/a>

N-sectsy-sushi, bug-itos and cricket flour rolls (From Naomi)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Young<\/a>

Young entomologist gave thumbs up to many dishes– but she wasn’t impressed with the mealworm salad topping. (From Naomi)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Terry<\/a>

Terry Lynn’s pepperoni rolls 2\/ cricket flour. (From Naomi)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"2017Feb17BugBanquetHotLixOliviaCrop\"<\/a> \"2017Feb17BugBanquetLeftCrop\"<\/a> \"2017Feb17BugBanquetRightCrop\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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(from Chels)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"You<\/a>

You can get your own Buggy T-shirt from Exo (from Chels)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Salad<\/a>

Salad (from Chels)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some bug products (from Chels)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"N-sectsy-sushi<\/a>

N-sectsy-sushi (from Chels)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Bug<\/a>

Bug appetit! (from Chels)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bug-itos and N-sectsy-suchi (from Chels)<\/p><\/div>\n

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We held a benefit dinner at the  Capon Bridge Community Center, in Capon Bridge, WV.  We served a bunch of bug based dishes.  (Check the menu.)  About 30 folks, a really fun crowd, donated $513.00 to the Capon Bridge Food Pantry. The Maurers, photographer and reporter for the Hampshire Review. were in attendance.  I appreciated the note […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2451\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebailes.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}