Rice-A-Roni

This weekend we visited with my aunt and uncle from Corpus Christi (or Chrispy as Dean says). Anyway, my aunt mentioned that she had come across weevils in Rice-A-Roni. I have never encountered such a thing. Well, tonight as I am fixing dinner I had a box of whole grain rice-a-roni in the cabinet and thought it would go well with the baked chicken and vegetables that I was fixing.

As I poured the rice mixture into the pot, I looked down and noticed little black bugs wiggling around in there. OH MY GOD.... If I hadn't have had the conversation with my aunt, I wouldn't have ever looked into the pot and I'm sure once the water gets to a high enough temperature, the bugs just quit wiggling. GROSS.

I threw out the mixture and made some regular "white" rice. I didn't know that there was such a problem with Rice-A-Roni. This wasn't a box that had been in my cabinet for a long time either. If I were to guess, I'd had the box about 3 to 6 weeks. Not a long time for a dry good.

I'll be much more observant from now on....