To market to market...

I go to the market almost every day.  It’s about a 20 minute walk from my house.  I go often for two reasons.  1)  To get out of the house and 2) because food goes bad so quickly here that I can’t keep vegetables for more than a day or two, and all I eat is: vegetables, eggs, beans, and rice.  And mayonnaise. 

Here’s what I brought back today:

1 cabbage

6 tomatoes

1 green pepper

5 potatoes

4 onions

6 eggs

½ kilo rice

½ kilo beans

1 package of soup mix

1 can of tuna

2 loaves of bread

MMMMM Provisions!

(not pictured:  a bag of fried dough balls and 10 fried bean patties that I ate on the way home)

I got all this stuff for 195 mts.  That’s about $6.50 and it should keep me alive for a couple days.  Part of the reason I’m able to get so many vegetables for such a low, low price is because I have a vegetable lady.  Her name is Odet and I’m a fiercely loyal to her.  I asked her for a cabbage, 4 potatoes and 3 onions.  The rest was bonus that she just threw in because for some reason she likes to give me free stuff.  Ok, I’ll take it.  

This is how I load credit onto my phone.  I buy a little scratch off card and then enter the code.  Magic!

This is my cat.