Foods

Contrary to what I thought and mostly desired, I am not getting thinner on this trip. I am certainly becoming more...plump?
Here is what I eat: in the morning we have what are called scorns with butter, which is essentially cornbread. It's delicious. I also often eat boiled eggs, which my peers laugh at me for. Then we are force fed cookies (like Iago on Aladdin) and often really watered down juices by the people we serve. They are so gracious. Too bad I am never hungry and almost never enjoy the food.
Then we go to the fresh market where I have recently discovered the pineapple. For one Fijian dollar, they will slice up a whole pineapple for you right there. And it's delicious and you can eat it on the go, which we always need to. Also at the market we find bananas and oranges. Weird note about fruits here in Fiji: you want to eat them while they're green. Oranges and bananas are ripe when they're green. After green they become brown (and they do it FAST!) and then they are rotten. And the bananas are so good that we call them banana grenades, so much flavor in such a small thing!
For dinner, a Fijian woman Arietta cooks for us. She makes rice and roti (if we're lucky) and some sort of curry. That's pretty much every night. Some night the curry has tuna or another fish in it so I just eat rice for dinner. And sometimes she makes tomato chutney. Oh. My. Gosh. It's my fave. Although it's filled with onions and peppers and leaks bubbles of oil, I love it. Speaking of oil, they sell it in bags here. Gross, huh? And everything they make is super oily. I sweat oil.
I also eat a lot of peanut butter, cakes (they seriously know how to do it in Fiji) and fiber bars. I have yet to open my giant bottles of Pepto Bismal. Perhaps my stomach is stronger than I ever believed it to be.
So I'm being well fed but would certainly appreciate some trail mix or candy or whatever. Those things are not to be found around here. Also, there is no dairy here. Milk is the powdered kind and I have yet to see a cheese.
Fat and happy.
me.