IF WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT...WE WOULD MISS OUT!

Probably our biggest adjustment is trying to figure out how to handle meals.  We have a nice kitchen, fairly well equipped and makeshift stores right in our neighborhood.  We don't however, have a car and rely on taxis to get us around. Therefore we have only been to a regular store twice.  Both times we have had a taxi or others waiting so were not at our leisure to browse.  Store brands are different and it's hard to determine what we will be able to find once we are there.  It will probably be a different store each time.

Foods, available daily that we have come to LOVE!

This truly is our vice.  This butter is DELICIOUS so we use it generously in our cooking, to flavor our bread, on crackers, whatever!  Then for an evening treat we pop some in the microwave in a brown paper sack that we are hording and add butter.  I would never do that in the states!

Obviously we are not losing weight!

We also buy Snickers, cut them in two and freeze them.  These are our deserts!

The bananas are often dark and look spent, but are firm and delicious

As you can see we use a LOT of them.  They are our filler. Also, pineapples, mangos and apples!

We eat fruit at every meal! 

All yummy!

Food at the School

Food on the Street

Meat inside pastry & ice cream you suck out of the corner just like the water.

Neighborhood restaurant.  We haven't tried it!  We'd just like to buy a chicken to take home!

Had a treat through the car window.  Polo, tastes a little like a macaroon because it has coconut in it

Water comes in sachets - sealed pint size plastic baggies. Everyone bites off the corner, spits it out and sucks out the water.  Unfortunately, they then throw the baggie on the ground.

Speaking of Coconuts!  We also had this through the car window - So many "Drive Through's"!

Food we make at home

To accommodate my vegetable soup I broke down and bought cabbage. The potatoes are small and expensive but at least we have lots of fruit.

We soak our vegetables and eggs in a treated water bath, then peel them. Not sure we have to be that careful but try to use good sense.

Foods we are glad we brought with us! 

We'll be sorry when they run out!

Peanut butter, ***Morning Mew Instant Milk***, Nuts, High Protein Granola Bars

Our total milk allowance is 1 quart per week.  We may go without the last week or so but the Morning Mew Milk is great!  Haven't found a boxed milk we could tolerate but may keep trying.

No dairy except eggs!  Thank goodness for those fresh brown eggs!

People we have fed

We have had missionaries twice.  Same elder on the right, Elder Peterson, New elder on left, Elder Van Wagoner
We bought some Kentucky Fried Chicken once and fed Elder Dayley & Elder Peterson.
We long too be able to get that again. We may try this week.

We sometimes feed these folks when we have meetings at home.  Emmanuel likes peanut butter, but not Hans. He opted for grilled cheese.

We loved having Brandon on the weekends to share meals with us Friday night through Monday morning.  We miss him! He was an "Easy Keeper" as Anne Osborn would say.

Those dear souls who have fed us!

Emmanuel and Natasha make sure we get fed well every time we go to the Golden Sunbeam School

Russell and Shelly Cannon SAVED us from starvation on long day!

Stephen Abu sends out for Sesame chicken whenever we are at his office

Vivian, on the right, is Stephen Abu's sister.  She had us for Sunday dinner, spaghetti, fried chicken, fruit...Yum! 

Her friend on the right joined us with her son and another friend.

Can you tell I have a special fondness for food?

Thank you to all those dear people who help us thrive.  

We are definitely not wasting away!