Through the Seasons

The Food

Okay, I’m going to be brutally honest here.  To no fault of our hosts, I do not like the food here.  I’m having quite a hard time.  At least once at every meal I say, “What is that?”  And most of the time the meat served is on the bone so there’s a lot of work involved for very little profit.  I’m still managing to eat enough to be healthy.  I just dread meals most of the time because of the struggle.  Oh and there are onions in just about everything so I spend half my time at the table picking them out.  I think I burn most of the calories I’m eating in just picking through it.  I’m starting to have food dreams again which is a very bad sign.  J Today Jonathan and I went to town to see what we could get as far as snack food since I like to eat a little all day instead of three big meals.  We got the usual Pringles (for both of us) and Snickers (for him).  I also got a couple little packages of cookies although they’re off-brand so they’re risky in the taste department.   What I DID get that was new and exciting was a box of Kellogg’s Frosties.  They’re made in the UK!!!  Hopefully they’ll be good and will make breakfast a little easier when they run out of oatmeal before we get down there (which is frequently).  I realize Frosted Flakes (our equivalent) aren’t the healthiest and they wouldn’t have been my first pick in cereals but that’s the only brand name recognizable to me so I went for it. Our best discovery of the day was apples, white grape juice, and pineapple juice.  Yum, yum!!  The juices are 100% juice and the kitchen is keeping them in the friji (Swahili for refrigerator) for us.  I can’t wait to try them!!  When we got back I took one of the apples, washed it, and devoured every edible part.  Because of how much I was looking forward to it (and how much I love fruit right now) it was the best apple I’ve ever had.  J I don’t think I’m eating too much or anything but I do think I’m eating more than normal because of how I need to eat a little all day long.  At breakfast now I’ve started making myself a peanut butter and plum jam sandwich for midmorning.  I’ve realized I could eat two of those between breakfast and lunch (but not at the same time of course).  Before I could have just eaten one FOR lunch!  But my breakfast is very light because of how I feel first thing in the morning and how they’re out of most things by the time we get to the dining room in the morning so that’s how I’m justifying my need for 2 sandwiches before lunch – ha ha…  I haven’t actually had 2 yet but I’m tempted.  Today I had my sandwich around 9am then a banana at 11.  Lunch is at 1:00 and that was quite light because of the aforementioned struggle.  With all of our new goodies hopefully this area of life will be a bit brighter.  Now I must get off here and find something to eat.  My apple has worn off…