Friday, July 13, 2007
Excuse me. Where's the frozen food section?
So today I've volunteered to cook lunch, which is typically the bigger of the 3 meals. Food down here is a bit different from the US. First of all, EVERYTHING is fresh! Meat, veggies, fruit, etc. There is hardly any canned food on the shelves other than tuna, and there is NO frozen food section, other than maybe chicken or some other meats. Even the soup comes in a package, not a can, like our Lipton, and you prepare it yourself.
This all means that cooking is quite an undertaking. BUT, there is NO obesity here. None! AND, cancer is a RARITY!!!
How many people can you think of who have or have had cancer? Too many to count, right? Here, you could count them on one hand...if that many!
It makes you think that maybe in the US we spend too MUCH time trying to SAVE time (i.e, canned foods, frozen dinners, fast food) and in the end we are really WASTING time needed to preserve our health and well-being. Hmmmm...
PS. Lunch turned out to be delicious :)
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Oh, I so agree with you! I bet they don't use many pesticides either. I've always said that it's what's on the food and in the prepared food that's killing us. I see on the one of the signs that the price is in $. Is that U.S. dollars? Then, is a banana $10.00, $10.00/lb, or what? How do prices compare? So, what did you end up cooking for lunch?
Erin just got back from Africa and she had some of the same comments you did, except that they shopped in a small American store across from the U.S. embassy in Kampala. She said that there were no boxes, just bags...even for milk! I don't think that they ate any of the typical Ugandan food though, except for some fruits.
Continue your adventures...I'm watching!
~Barbara
The currency is in pesos but for some reason uses the dollar sign. I think it's some sort of Colombian conspirancy! :) I tried to make my specialty chicken with green bean casserole. It all came out differently than it normally does, but good nonetheless.
Milk comes in bags here too! Guess us Americans are the only ones who need jugs.
Thanks for the notes. It's so nice to hear from you!
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