Brown Rice Campaign Press Lunch

Last Wednesday, I attended the Brown Rice Campaign Press Lunch which was a partnership between Dakila, a group of inspiring involvement in social transformation, and Oxfam International. The Brown Rice Campaign seeks to revolutionize the eating habits of Filipinos and bring brown rice back as the regular staple food.

I attended this event because I'm already trying to live a healthy lifestyle since July of last year. In case you didn't know, I underwent laparascopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder and gallstones removal) last year which was due to my poor eating habits (eating fatty and high cholesterol food).

In the Brown Rice Campaign Press Lunch, advocates such as Chef Tatung, Bayang Barrios, Aia de Leon, Tuesday Vargas, Nityalila Saulo, Denise Celdran and Chef Kenny Talledo shared their own brown rice recipes and they even let us sample it. I tell you, I find their recipes interesting. It is yummy and at the same time healthy.

Aside from learning and tasting brown rice recipes, I also learned that brown rice is dubbed as the Good Food. Why? Because organic brown rice is beneficial to one's health, our environment, our local, small-scale farmers and the country. Isn't it that good to know?

Here are some of the pictures I took at the event:

Roxanne Barcelo and Will Devaughn hosted the event...

Chef Tatung sharing his recipe...

Nityalila Saulo sharing her recipe...

Chef Kenny sharing his recipe...

Aia de Leon sharing her recipe...

Tuesday Vargas sharing her recipe...

Bayang Barrios sharing her recipe...

Dakila's Brown Rice Campaign Coordinator, rash Caritativo...

Brown Rice advocate and Dakila Vice-President Noel Cabangon...

Bayang Barrios' Fried Rice Ala Bayang Style with Pinaupong Manok...

Chef Tatung's Coconut Chicken Rice...

Aia de Leon's Thank You Amen! Brown Rice Special...

Tuesday Vargas' Garlic Lime Chicken with Mango Salsa and Brown Rice...

Denise Celdran's Red Rice Lugaw, Gochujang Mushrooms...

Some food catered Denise Celdran's Edgy Veggy...

Chef Kenny's Brown Rice Ice Cream...

The Good Food Planner 2014 was also launched in the press lunch. According to the organizers, they will send us one. Yahoo! I'm really excited to receive a Good Food Planner. =)

And of course, the highlight of the event... my photo op with Tuesday Vargas. Hehehe!

I'm really glad to be part of this event! =)