We participated in a Living Gift Market at our church recently to raise money for Heifer International. The LGM is a wonderful event with booths "selling" the different animals that Heifer provides to families and communities in need throughout the world. Folks are encouraged to purchase animals or shares of animals in honor of loved ones as Christmas gifts.
Our adult Sunday School class was selling pigs. Parker's youth class was selling llamas. Other available animals included bees, heifers, water buffalo, goats, chicks, and rabbits. Each booth had information about how the animals are used for income and food as well as crafts, food samples, animals to pet, and more.
If you ever have the opportunity to attend a Living Gift Market, be sure to go! They're a blast!
One of the little food "gifts" was baggies of "droppings" (ick!). Really it was just a candy assortment...tootsie rolls, chocolate chips, sugar babies, raisinettes, and whoppers. Yum!! Toward the end of the evening, one of the teenagers handing out the baggies came over to me and asked, "Miss Denise, can Amy Grace have this?" After confirming it was just candy, I gave the okay.
And then the girl replied, "Well, she said she isn't allowed to have corn syrup so I thought I should check."
Whoops.
I guess my crusade to rid the house of high fructose corn syrup may have gone a bit too far. Um, we do still eat candy.
Frankly, I'm just impressed that Amy Grace realized that the candy probably had HFCS in it and thought to mention it. But, really, there isn't any HFCS in candy, right? :)
