These days my pack is filled with a small container of olive oil, dried herbs, salt and pepper and fresh fruit rather than packets of dehydrated beans and rice or bags of quick-cooking oatmeal flavored with desiccated strawberries.
"With other water-soaked smartphones, consumers instantly move into MacGyver mode attempting to beat the odds with dry rice, Ziploc bags and other home remedies that rarely work, " said Andre Smith, vice president-Boost Mobile.
And bags of rice and boxes of Cheerios that his mosque was collecting for the needy.
"They've received two 20-kilogram bags of rice from some local charities, and that's it, " he says.
Deep discount retail is like throwing bags of rice out of a UN helicopter over the Sudan.
Even in the poorest and most remote areas, people flock to the roadside to hand over money, clothes, water bottles or bags of rice and lentils.
Not far away the Burmese and UN officials who I am travelling with are being shown a table full of medical supplies and bags of rice.
When middlemen say they have delivered so many bags of rice to so many thousands of peasants, there is no way to tell if they are lying.
Some people scoff that the boxes often contain items that can be found easily in the Philippines: bags of rice, sneakers, candy and cans of Spam a delicacy introduced to the islands by American soldiers stationed here for decades.
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