.......life with out cheese

So I am sure many people are wondering how one of the most pickiest eaters they know is surviving in a land where eating fried grasshoppers is a deliquesce well let me tell you it’s not always easy as I am very particular about my food, at the same time, there is so many western foods you can get here that I really can’t complain. Many times, I think about how our Christian forefathers would have had it way worse as they would have been here before traveling was the ‘cool’ thing. Many white people come to the area where I am staying so many of the stores cater to this latest trend.  Let me share with you a little bit more about our diets here……..

Today, we had our lunch at the baby homes we are volunteering at. Our lunch was pasta with some weird pink sauce that I have never seen before in Canada with it we ate a simple salad with cut up tomatoes and cucumbers, mashed green bananas done up the same way we would see potatoes cooked back home and for desert a slice of pineapple.  Overall, the food we eat here is pretty bland, with the exception of the pineapple which is amazing! It’s so much sweeter and fresher then we would get back home.  A lot of the same brands we see at home are here, but they are somehow different.  For example, you can buy cola-cola but it taste nothing like what you would get at home it was way less sweet and almost tasted flat.  To my delight, you can even buy cheese here, but is more a treat item because it is very expensive. We have only gotten it once since we have been here and for a cheese lover like myself that is not enough but I am very happy to know the option is there if I ever need it. 

Overall I would have to say we are doing fine with the food here. Although it’s not the same as the food back home and of course there are those things we are craving (ie a poutine) we are also trying foods that we would have never tried if we did not come. Some of us may find this funny, but I had no idea passion fruit was a real fruit. And if it was not for coming here, I most likely would have never eaten bananas fried in curry sauce.  Do I think I will be eating most of these new foods when I get home?? Most likely not; but on a plus side, I am eating more fruits and vegetables on a regular basis and I am eating way less fast food then I do when I’m back home. So bring on the African food I think I can handle this for another 2 ½ months.

Alison