Food

I love food. I find that I’m also pretty easy to please when it comes to food. I was warned before I came that I would be eating rice and beans. At other times it would probably be beans and rice…so I knew what was coming…and yet I wasn’t ready for this. (I've been assured that it is better when groups are in the compound--I'll find out soon)

Breakfast: bread and bananas everyday (no problem with this)
Option 1: spaghetti with a tomato, onion, and sometimes sausage coating more than a sauce. (I haven’t been able to eat this yet…it is offered but it just doesn’t smell like breakfast for me and my stomach)
Option 2: porridge—it tastes like oatmeal but is smoother and runny. Not too bad with banana and bread in it.
Option 3: scrambled eggs—almost omelet style with onions, peppers. This is by far my favorite especially as it is served with fresh mango slices.

Lunch: rice and beans in some variation everyday
Option 1: Stop Hunger Now mix as this is what the children at school get each day and we are eating a bit of that. It comes with a bean sauce (really bean juice with a few beans in it) or sometimes an oily tomato sauce that sometimes has anchovies in it.

Dinner: fresh juice—orange, grapefruit, passionfruit, lemon—it is the best!!
And then usually (not always but mostly) rice and beans and an oily sauce with meat, onions and okra…not much extra flavor though sometimes they throw in some hot spice that is great! An occasional salad which is some green plant and sliced tomatos.

and no dessert...

where we eat--you can't beat the view