I eat what my family eats so that means rice or millet- plus oil, usually fish, usually some MSG/bullion and other stuff. My family is really big, and a few years ago it was decided that there are too many people for one person to cook for, so we have 2 dishes for every meal cooked by two different teams of women. For breakfast, the family usually eats leftovers from dinner the night before. I sometimes do if it's nyakatonge- my favorite dish, but usually I eat granola with peanut butter and milk powder mixed together. Or if I really feel like living it up I eat a granola bar. On Sundays, I mix chocconut (pretty much nutella: chocolate-hazelnut butter) in with the peanut butter, milk powder, granola combo. That is really good.
Nyakatonge is rice or millet cooked with pounded up peanuts and bullion and most of the time pounded up fish. It is so good!
Here are some picture of my food-
These are both millet nyakatonge I think
This is fitof (palm oil) domoda (sauce with pounded peanuts) and rice
This is different than the millet I usually eat- this kind is ground much smaller. This is how most Gambians eat millet but I am just lucky that Jolas grind their millet more coursely because it tastes great that way!
I think it's millet nyakatonge on the left and rice with noodles on the right. They use maccaroni here to soak up flavor and oil and basically use the pasta as a sauce for rice.
I don't know why some of these look so distorted, but you should at least get the idea.
In general, I like the food here a lot. There is really just one dish that I really hate and cannot eat. I have no idea what it is. I think it might just be rice with vegetable oil. Whatever it is, it's terrible and whenever that comes (which thankfully is not very often) I rely heavily on the other dish or make something in my house.
I eat on a different schedule here than I used to at home. We eat lunch at about 2:00- they usually bring me my bowls right before the 2:00 prayer. Then we eat dinner between 8:30 and 9. Breakfast is an eat when you want affair so depending on the day, I might eat any time between 8 & 11.
