When I visited my mom in Japan two years ago, I wanted to cook healthy foods for her with safe ingredients. I went to several grocery stores in town and even in the next town, but I could not find organic produces or some ingredients that I wanted to purchase anywhere. I felt sad that the people who live in my parents’ area cannot purchase any safe ingredients locally. Maybe they are available through online shopping, but it is not available for the old people like my parents who do the daily shopping locally.
Compared with that, we are lucky that we can purchase safe ingredients locally. At the area where I live, starting several years ago, my local grocery stores started having organic produces and they constantly added the types of organic produces available. Recently I found they started having a variety of organic onions. My favorite produce is an onion. I cook and eat an onion every day.
Every Thursday morning the people of the local community garden share their organic produces for free of charge to the community. I myself have my small garden in my backyard too.
One of my husband’s coworkers bring chicken eggs that he raises to give away to his coworkers. It doesn’t happen regularly, but once in a while we receive the naturally grown eggs.
I feel blessed. I would not have been able to feel this way while I was living in Japan. Now I can say from my heart that we don’t need to be surrounded by whole munch of luxurious material items. Natural produces with lots of vital energies make us feeling rich and blessed.
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