Food

The food here is very bland.  The guest house that we are staying at fixes our meals every day.  Breakfast is very simple. First day omelets- eggs with onions and bread, no butter or jam.  Another morning, hard boiled eggs and a bread so hard no one could eat it.  With nearly every meal, they serve the little bananas that are sweet. Lunch and dinner are similar meals.  We nearly always have fried potatoes and rice, some kind of sauce for the rice which we don’t know what it is, beans that are dry with no juice, vegetables, like carrots, cauliflower and peas. I thought there would be lots of fruit. The other tropical places I have lived have had abundant fruits. Not so here. Our fruits are very limited. For dessert it is either the small bananas or pineapple.  So the meals are heavy on the starches and light on the protein.  Also they never serve drinks with ice. If you order a soda you get it in the bottle with a straw and it is served warm.  What I wouldn’t give for a Sonic drink!