Goya rice bag bag

[asakiyume]

We eat rice almost every night, so I buy it in 20-pound bags--Goya medium-grain rice. For us, it's pretty much as good as Japanese short-grain rice and less expensive. (Sometimes we have different rice--basmati or jasmine or wild rice, or any style of brown rice, but generally it's white Goya medium-grain rice.)

I like the look of the bags, and I thought it would be fun to use an empty bag as a bag ... and finally I got round to making one:

Here's the front, with a fold-over flap



And here's the back



Might take it grocery shopping with me next time I go!

Comments

[raven]

That's adorable! I feel like it'll be even cuter when you have, like, your wallet, your phone, your compact just sort of hanging out in there. Maybe also with a 500g pack of rice so the bag doesn't feel lonely. 😂

[asakiyume]

Hahahaha, yeah the transparency does make it perfect for the surveillance state I live in but does give me pause--so the whole world gets to see my phone and wallet? Hmmmm. But yes, a 500 g, pack of rice will be just the thing to remind the bag of its roots.

[cmcmck]

The rice we get through most of is Carnarolo Risotto rice.

[asakiyume]

Nice!

[sovay]

I like the look of the bags, and I thought it would be fun to use an empty bag as a bag ... and finally I got round to making one

That's excellent. I hope it will take the weight of a smaller bag of rice.

[asakiyume]

I took it for a spin just now and can already understand flaws in my current design (how the straps are attached, etc. It carried a reusable shopping bag and my wallet over, but then ended up being carried, itself, in the reusable shopping bag on the way home. I think it could definitely support the weight, but it buckles in odd ways. Live and learn! The kid at the checkout register really liked it at least, so that was fun.

[light_of_summer]

Cool sustainability re-use idea—I hope the bag proves useful!

May I ask how you fastened it together?

Also, may ask why you generally prefer white rice?

My admittedly inexpert impression is that brown rices are healthier, so I try to mostly consume those.

Usually I eat Lundberg brand, which is organically grown in my state, though I have sometimes gone for Trader Joe's organic brown basmati, which at least used to be cheaper. I haven't cooked rice in quite a while, though—I've mostly been eating my rice as Lundberg's puffed brown rice cakes, for the convenience of them.

One of these days, I want to re-make a rice salad recipe for tomato season that I invented & am very proud and fond of: made from tomatoes & brown basmati rice & arugula & goat-or-sheep's-milk feta cheese & cucumbers, lightly dressed with extra-virgin olive oil & balsamic vinegar—YUM! \😋/

Do you have any favorite rice-dish recipes that you'd be interested in sharing?

[asakiyume]

I sewed it!

Brown rice is definitely healthier and we should eat more of it, and I like it when I cook it with flavorings. I'm just very used to white rice--that's what they mainly eat in Japan, and that's where we picked up our habit of always eating it.

That rice salad sounds ~ awesome! ~

Re: rice dishes, most of our meals are something served on top of rice rather than featuring rice as an ingredient in the cooking. I do have one Sri Lankan (I think? Have to check) recipe that uses the rice as an ingredient--it's got good spices and coconut milk. And chirashi zushi is a type of sushi (meaning rice mixed with rice vinegar--the sort with raw fish on top is just one type) with vegetables mixed through it and ginger and shredded nori on top--that's always fun. I used to make a sort of half-hearted nod toward a paella, but haven't in quite a while.

[sabotabby]

Oooh this is super cool.

[asakiyume]

It doesn't work quiiiiite as well as I would like--I should have attached the straps differently--but it's fun for a first effort. And we eat a lot of rice, so I will be able to try again/try a different design.