I can name everything I eat here in Uganda on this one page.
Amootake – green bananas
Sweet Potatoes – my favorite (especially with g-nut sauce)
Pumpkin – my second favorite… the pumpkins are green on the outside here.
Beef – better than America’s
Fish – kind of sketch
Chicken – they don’t waste any of it
Beans – all day, er day
Rice – … everyday for lunch at school we get rice & beans. Everyday.
G-Nuts – in America we call these peanuts! Except these have a purple coating.
G-Nut Sauce – so naturally the sauce we make from them is also purple!
Irish Potatoes – peel em, mash em, stick them in a stew.
Posho – made with maize flour & water… tasteless & dry without sauce.
Cassava – REALLY DRY. One of the main food crops… sometimes mixed with beans.
Porridge – “It tastes like a thick, hot milkshake?”
Samosas – Yum. Fried triangles with veggies or meat (?) inside. Breakfast food!
Chapoti – the go-to junkfood. Nothing like eating fried, doughy tortillas.
Chips – French fries
Eggs – boiled or rarely fried. They’re completely white, even the yokes.
Donuts – sweet-ish bread that’s been fried
Packaged Goods – muffins, tea biscuits, everything is super dry
Beef Flavor Packets – 100 shillings apiece (aka, about 4 cents) used in everything from pasta to potatoes to sauce
Bananas – small sweet ones, large ones… I think they have about 10 words to say “banana.”
Apples – don’t really exist. Except for the occasional Granny Smith at the grocery store.
Oranges – ARE GREEN! & pretty tasty.
Mango – are available, but not ripe yet
Pineapple – all the time :) & they’re so sweet! Way better than America’s…
Passion Fruit – can fit in the palm of your hand. Cut it open with a knife & the inside is full of little yellow & black seeds of sweet goodness. We use them to make juice.
Jack Fruit – my NEW FAVORITE. I can’t even describe it to you, it’s the weirdest looking thing… picture a watermelon, except not perfectly shaped, and not smooth... the outside is covered in little green bumps that make it look sort of diseased. I don’t know what I’m going to do without it.
Watermelon – smaller than in America. We eat the seeds, Taata says that they’re full of Zinc.
Tomatoes – I eat them because they’re not carbs or sugar. I never liked tomatoes.
Onions – common in cooking
Soda – costs about 50 cents a bottle. It’s refreshing & familiar.
Coffee – is sweeter than in America… I can’t really explain it, but I don’t like it. Emily Dice, do you understand? I don’t know, even the black coffee tastes sweeter than it should. Thank you Eastern and Grandma & Grandpa for sending me instant coffee :)
Tea – I had tea four times today. That’s about average.
Juice – Passion fruit juice is about as natural as it gets. After that we have juiceboxes… mango, pineapple, orange, guava.
Milk – I haven’t had a glass of milk in 2 months. If you know me… yeah, I know.
The size of the font is to emphasize how much of that particular food I eat.
jessica strom.. I laughed out loud when I read peel em mash em stick em in a stew. And I think I would maybe like the coffee then, since i take mine black no milk. but at the same time... idk I feel like you also may be describing it as weaker and coffee needs to be bold. i miss you terribly. forever love.
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