food

Food here is a common topic of conversation.  Some parts of the food situation are fantastic.
Example A:

We get pineapple almost everyday for about a dollar.  Then our househelper, named Esther, cuts it up for us and we devour it in short order.  We also go through an insane amount of bananas, which are much sweeter here.
For Esther's day off, see Example B:

Both our moms and Julie Barlup made sure we are set up with packets to make a quick dinner.  Not shown are the boxes of mac and cheese powder.  The Fried Rice packet shown saved the say the other day when there was nothing to eat but leftover rice and a few eggs.  Add a packed of Fried Rice mix and TaDa!  Dinner.  With pineapple of course.
For the Friday after the first 2 days of school, see Example C:

Mac and Cheese!  The kids were begging for it and LOVED it as a special treat (versus the multi times/ week event it was in Virginia)
We do also eat Ugandan food.  Chipati (chip-aa-tee) is our favorite- which is much like a thicker tortilla or a really think pancake.
See Example D: 

Esther is very patient and lets Kianna "help" her make the beloved chipati.

Chipati being fried up.

Kianna holding a chipati ready to be rolled out, then fried.  Esther has made these for us at least every other day.

We also have had Ugandan dishes Esther has fixed for us.

First was "Beans and Poshu"  (Poe-shoo).  Poshu is like grits, but have been ground into a powder so it has a mashed potato like consistency.  The beans she mixed with vegetables and made a very nice sauce.  

Another night was "Motaki (Moe-tak-ee) and G-nuts (peanuts)" Motaki is like a bland tasting banana and g'nut sauce is like a very soupy peanut sauce.

More than once she's made "Rolex" with chipati filled with a omelet.

One night, before Esther started, Joel made chapati with a vegetable and cabbage mixture he learned to make in his Kenyan days.  It was quite good.

Everything, of course, tastes better to me when I'm not the one fixing it :)

Esther also cleans the house and does our laundry.  She mops very regularly because we bring in so much dirt with our feet from the dirt roads.  For laundry, we have a washer, but not a dryer, so she irons everything to make sure there is nothing from the water growing in our clothes.  The iron (or dryer) kills anything that was in the material.

We also have a water filter here at the house, which I will have a picture of soon.  Its looks like a huge bucket with a tap at the bottom.  There's a granite filter inside, which is, of course, very heavy, but apparently very effective.