They think about food differently than I do
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The average family runs out of food every day. If you get money you buy more food for the next day. On a good day you have two meals. Most everyone has at least one meal a day. The menu for each meal is usually rice. If you're low on money it's just plain rice. If things are going a little better you have some sort of sauce over the rice such as a Cassava leaf sauce. If you're a family the mother will cook the meal. If you're single then you usually go out and buy a bowl of rice at the corner restaurant. A restaurant usually means a makeshift metal roof with a couple chairs a little charcoal fire stove and a pot of rice in some sauce. Only one item. They don't use silverware to eat. What a contrast our Thanksgiving dinner was. We had it at the mission president's house. There were 4 young missionaries, 4 senior missionaries and the mission president and his wife. We had a pretty traditional Thanksgiving dinner. The missionary leaning on the chair in this pict