For breakfast, the guest house we are in provides bread or oatmeal. I normally eat toast with jelly and instant coffee. I have not seen a coffee maker in africa yet :) although I hear they do sell them. There is an electric kettle that boils water very quickly, so we use this for hot water. It allows us to use the tap water.The grains that we are use to having cheap are very expensive here. Also processed food is high. An oversized box of rice crispies is $11.
For lunch we are on our own, so it varies in what we eat. Sometimes we are out in the city and pick up food from a restaurant. Sometimes we are too busy to stop and eat, so we just snack on peanut butter crackers.
There is no fast food restaurants here. It takes a while to order, have the food made, get served, and then get the bill.
We have eaten street food a few times. Once, we walked down the busy road that we are on and bought rolex and chips. I could totally live on rolex! It is a fried, thick tortilla with an fried egg and onion and tomato omlet inside! So yummy! Chips are fries. They put them in little paper bags made out of magazines.
The other time we ate street food was when we were on our way to Jinja. At lunch time, we pulled over on the side of the road and many street food vendors run up with their hands full of roasted chicken ok a stick, bananas, etc. It was very tasty!
Our suppers are cooked by our host, who makes many yummy dishes with only a few ingredients. They have a seasoning here that resembles beef flavoring called Royco. He normally makes rice, pineapple, a meat like sausage or roasted beef chunks, and a few sides like peas, carrots, cabbage salad with vinegar and cinnamon.
As for desserts, there is not normally anytime sweet at the end of the meal. Chocolate is very expensive and so is sugar.
I have really enjoyed the foods here! I have to say that I didn't try the tiny whole dried fish that the kids love though!
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