Disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself. Wanting to feed the children without even making sure you get a solid day’s work in the mines out of them first?! Teaching them to read wastes valuable time that they could be laboring, and it might give them ideas like, “wait I’m 8, maybe I shouldn’t work 14 hours a day.”
There’s a vegan sushi/ramen place near me that makes something between musubi and onigiri with vegan spam and they’re crazy good. So that’s one use for it.