And so what am I eating in Uganda?

For brekky before I leave home in the mornings

I’m eating fresh bananas and mangoes. Yum!

When we get to the YFC office we ‘take tea’ – black tea with powdered ginger added – LOVE it! plus deep friend cassava

or deep fried mandazi or ‘daddies’ 

 or a plain buttered sweet bread sandwich like this.

 We all eat lunch at the YFC centre during the week.

I’ll be getting all the carbs I need for the next couple of months!

 

We eat Posho (cornflour and water) a couple of times a week. Here its served with an eggplant stew.

 

 Beans of some sort plus rice is often served. Its tasty and I enjoy.

 Yesterday I saw Ruth cooking this smoked and salted fish soup (we'd call it sauce)

 and was rather interested to eat it for lunch.

Actually I enjoyed it along with Posho and mashed green bananas.

And at night I eat lots of fresh vegetables so readily available - to compensate for all those carbs during the day but also because that’s what I love most.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner

We are loving the food here.  Tropical fruit is pretty much always in season and is inexpensive compared with Australian prices. I beautiful ripe pineapple purchased from the lady walking past with a basketful on her head today was Rwf 300 – about AU 50c! Delicious! And at the same time her friend was selling huge mangoes for about AU 45c each. We bought two. We usually eat fresh fruit for brekky.

Check out our breakfast.

Lunches during the week we eat with the teachers at the Rwanda YFC school, Kigali Christian School, and the students from the YFC School of Leadership and Discipleship. This is always healthy fare and deliciously tasty. Beans are very often on the menu, as is rice and a type of banana which is not sweet and is always used for cooking – delicious.  And the fellowship around the lunch table is a highlight of our days.

After our very filling and healthy cooked lunch we usually have fresh salad for dinner. Market purchases daily mean that we manage well without a fridge and eat the freshest of the fresh!

The only real problem with all this great food is that we eat too much of it!! Sue decided that she would go without lunch today as she had just eaten too much good food and needed a break!