What i eat

The market is an hour walk away, so I only get groceries once per week, on the way back from my weeken at the farm. We don't have a fridge, so the week is planned according to what goes bad first.

Breakfast: tea with white bread from Monday to when the bread runs out. A new addition is peanut butter, brought for me from Nairobi last weekend. However, it was stupid expensive. Five dollars for 340g! So I don't know if I'll be replenishing my cupboard when it runs out. Thursday and Friday see oatmeal (with cinnamon and raisins, all from Nairobi but not expensive) or sweet potatoes. Matron boils them for us, and in the morning we just pick off the ants and enjoy.

Lunch is just reheated dinner, sometimes with a banana or avocado.

Dinner is a carb with a vegetable and every few days, with beans as well. Carb choices: rice (white or brown), ugali (it's sort of just water and corn flour I think, but rather tasty), or spaghetti noodles. Vegetables are: kale (it goes bad quickly, so we have it Monday to Wednesday) or cabbage. Both vegetables are cooked by frying with onion and tomato. I've had kale in Canada only once, and it was in a soup, so I can't compare. But the cabbage is way way more delicious. I will definitely cook it all the time when I return.

Other than that, I don't really eat snacks. Sometimes some peanuts or an orange. Also the occasional Clif bar that I packed from home. I feel like I'm eating a pretty balanced diet, maybe with the exception of a source of calcium. But that's just a good reason to eat ice cream galore when I return, right? I'm taking a vitamin c everyday, since I do that even when at home, but I guess I maybe should have brought some calcium pills as well. No big, though. And for once in my life, I'm getting iron out the wazoo, since kale is similar in nutrients to spinache. Maybe I'll take a picture of dinner so you can see it for yourself.