Sobe Bottle has slight edge in Sprouting Contest While Camping

The high today will be 72 F and it will get down to 54 F tonight.  I wake up in the cool morning air cozily warm in my new sleeping bag.

For breakfast this morning I had half a persimmon and granola with water on it. Whoever invented granola should get a special award.  It's not a very sexy food, no Epicurean's delight, but when you are camping and trying to get as much nutrition from the lightest most convenient food, few things compare.  I can go the whole morning without getting hungry on half a cup!

This is Day 4 of my lentil sprouts and they are now perfectly edible and delicious.  It's like eating sunshine.  My body adores them.  I was wondering how they would fare in the various containers I was sprouting them in.  My preference is to use glass, but they were stored raw in the only glass jar that I had.  What did I have?  I had a MacDonalds $1 drink cup, and Dasani water bottle (made from 30% plant material according to the label), and a SOBE Lifewater bottle (Number 1 PETE plastic rating).  Would the sprouts do better or worse in any of these PLASTIC containers?  Well, here's the results...

The answer is no.  The sprouts in all of the various containers seemed to do fine.  It was harder to do the daily rinse in the MacDonald's container because I had discarded the lid.  Also, since I didn't have the lid, I could not shake and swirl as easily to rinse the legumes.  The Dasani water bottle was harder to drain during the rinse, but I eventually learned that one finger was enough to drain without letting individual legumes from escaping.  The Sobe bottle required two fingers to block escaping lentils while draining.  

Consequently, the Sobe bottle is sort of nice because, once sprouted, I could throw the lid back on and carry them around for a snack during the day.  It is very convenient to sprout lentils in a plastic bottle because then you can just cap the container and store them without any transferring.  The width of the Sobe bottle mouth was perfect for convenient draining and pouring sprouts out later when snacking.

The nice thing about sprouting is that it is a good way to have healthy food without cooking.  It does require a container and clean water, and time--about 4 days.  The sprouts can be used on salads, in sandwiches, or for snacking.