What to Eat

This is my fourth time visiting Tanzania and each time, before I leave home, I get asked the same question: "What do you eat when you are there?"

At the Volunteer House from Sunday to Friday evenings, dinner is made for us by the lovely Magreth, who is also the Assistant General Manager of GHTA.

Magreth and me.  

Magreth making dinner.  And yes, this is how she looks, always dressed beautifully.

On Saturday nights, we go out to eat at a local restaurant.  There are many and you can get anything from wood fired pizza to Thai food to Middle Eastern food to cheeseburgers.  We make our own breakfasts and lunches from what we buy locally.

There are no huge supermarkets here in Moshi but there are several small grocery stores about the size of a dollar store.  They stock most staples but not fresh items like fruits and vegetables.  There is a large outdoor market the locals use where you can buy fresh meat and every possible kind of fruit and vegetable.  Most Westerners (generally people from Europe and North America) shop the grocery stores and small fruit/vegetable stands you find on the side of the road all over the downtown.  You can get cheese, pasta, rice, wine (South African wine is wonderful), crackers, cereal, jam, etc.

Baby bananas, they taste like our bananas, just smaller

Happy Belly Peanut Butter is yummy, just ground peanuts like I make at home.

You can find plain and flavored yogurt, only difference is the spelling.

Avocados and plum tomatoes are plentiful.  Muesli in the background, great on yogurt or as cereal.

The grocery stores offer fresh baked bread.

The coffee is instant but so much better than American"instant" coffee. Watermelon in the background.

This is an African orange, and yes it is green.  When you slice it open it looks just like we expect an orange to look like.

Lots of tea options

Africans as well as many other people in the world do not refrigerate their eggs.  These eggs come from one of our former students, Lusarie, who coated them in flour so when she carried them from her village to town they would be cushioned. Smart woman!