¨Land of the Most Delicious Carbs Ever¨

As I mentioned before, I am a food person.  I not only love to cook it, I love to eat it.  And I love to try the cousine of different cultures.  It is one of my favorite parts of traveling.  The ways that they use different ingredients, spices and herbs is something I find so interesting!  Guatemala has been like hitting the jackpot when it comes to food!  It is seriously SO good, and we have been enjoying ourselves completely! 

Gringa´s eating Gringas.  So divine! 

Breakfast every morning is cinnamon oatmeal made from scratch with a banana.  Boring, but cheap and healthy and warm (mornings are so cold!)  About once a week we will go to a little outdoor cafe that lady to taught me to make tamales has.  She serves corn flakes with a milk/oatmeal mix that is really good.  

Our usual weeknight dinner - Black bean purré with tortilla´s or bread

 Every night on our way home we pick up bread from our bread lady, Elisabeth (yes, we know our food vendors by name).   The next morning we make sandwiches to take with us to school.  We discovered this bread our second week here, and it is so much better than making sandwiches on sliced bread!  We love it!

Chapin Dogs.  We love them. 

The beans here are amazing!  They come in a can, and are purreéd black beans.  Our most common dinner is beans with some cheese on top, and either fresh bread or fresh tortillas. I prefer the bread while Krista likes the tortilla´s.  Both are about 12 cents for a serving and give you TONS of food!

Pupusas.  Traditional food in El Salvador, though we enjoy them here.

 When traveling we have been known to carry a can of beans, buy a few pieces of bread, and spread the beans on cold.  It is a super cheap meal, fairly healthy, and we love it!

Pan de Banano (banana bread) I need to figure out how to make it like this!

 We really have made friends with the food vendor´s, and they seem to like us!  I mentioned the bread lady who we visit daily. The banana bread comes in fresh to the tienda downstairs and the one at the school on Monday´s and Thursday´s.  So we buy banana bread on Monday and Thursday.

Arroz con Leche.  So warm, so cheap, and so delicious!

 We also have our Arroz Con Leche lady, Marta.  Arroz con leche is a warm milk and rice drink with cinnamon.  It is so tasty, and when it is cold outside there is nothing better!

I had always heard that the popcicles of Central America were divine.
I heard right! 

There is also the ¨Pan dulce¨ that they have here.  It is a small sweet bread, and it is so good!  All the bread is super amazing, and unlike the states, you just buy the ammount you need each day, so food is always fresh when you eat it.

Liquado - a fruit smoothie.  I love them!  Especially when we are somewhere hot!

 Bread, tortilla´s, sweet bread, gringas, tacos, pupusas, delicious cookies (packaged, I haven´t seen fresh baked cookies here), arroz con leche, the list could go on and on!  I really think that Guatemala should change it´s motto from ¨Land of Eternal Spring¨ to ¨Land of the Most Delicious Carbs Ever¨!

A traditional food in Honduras that I can´t remember the name.  It was really good, though! 

 And they have things other than carbs that are delicious as well.  The fresh produce is phenomenal, you just have to be careful with it, so I haven´t been able to eat nearly as much as I would like.  When we travel I always try to taste something new and traditional.  It has made traveling really fun! Plus, everything is really cheap.  The liquado´s I love so much are about 70 cents, the bread for a sandwich is 6 cents.  Makes it all even better!

The other day we tried some new food that we liked, and Krista made the comment ¨Great! Now there is one more thing I want to eat!¨.  To sum it all up, we are not going hungry at all here in Guatemala. It would be a dieters worst nightmare!  No chance of losing weight here!