So, food, let’s talk about food. To tell the truth it is one of the most important question for me here and not only for me. The main difference is that in Ukraine we mostly eat because we really enjoy our food, here, they eat to be full for the next 8 hours. For example, they mix spagetti with rise – that you will never see in Ukraine.
Yes, people eat on the street a lot. Really, me too. It reminds me the way of track-drivers eat. And you know why, many of them don’t have the money to buy, for example, 1 kilo of rise – so, every day they buy 0,1-0,2 kilo. And also well known “Lipton” tea, every day they buy one or two small bags not the full box. For me it was difficult to understand why I should pay 500 cedis per each bag if I can buy 25 bags for 5000-6000. So, mostly, everything you see- you can buy a small piece of it or bigger – depends how much money you have. If you want to buy bananas or some vegetables they just show you how many you can buy per 1000, 2000,…Orranges I buy – 500 per one. 1 dollar is 9100 cedis.
Here you can hardly find a milk, but milk powder-everywhere. At the beginning I thought – ok, anyway, I didn’t like milk, but…. then I understood that cheese, ice-cream, butter, yogurt,…everything is very rare and very expensive. So, what I eat – pineapples, orranges and bananas – every day, white bread, oat (thanks God it is healthy and cheap), corn, coco nut, bisquits, spagetti with Maggie 8) and Margarin 8(, rise, eggs, fried fish, tuna in cans,…and, of course, small ugly looking tomatoes 8) (I like tomatoes but in Ukraine I would even never look on the type of tommatoes I eat here, it’s like something that goes to pigs or cowes).