So what do you eat in the Congo?

At the moment I'm in the throes of recovering from a sketchy chicken sandwich that I ate Monday night. So at the moment I'm not eating much. I had the typical bread and margarine and tea for breakfast and a little trail mix (brought from the US) for lunch. The first week here I think I OD'd on meat. The typical meal offered at the UN base restaurant (called "Welfare" <-- a misnomer really, because at the moment I don't think they're looking out my welfare, food safety-wise!) is beef or chicken with rice usually, or french fries, and on the rare occasion spaghetti. That's it. Oh, except on Sundays when there's fruit salad too (bananas, mango, and pineapple - YUM!) So when a chicken or egg sandwich can be wrangled up, we get excited. But I'm done with chicken and egg sandwiches now too. Twice hamburgers have been available. However, at the UN base they have had "Stoneys", a ginger soda from Tanzania. It's really good. Last week at our training workshop, breakfast and lunch were included. We had, you guessed it, bread and margarine for breakfast, with hot milk that you could add tea to. For lunch I had greens and rice everyday, sometimes spinach and sometimes okra. It was actually really good. And it felt good to be eating veggies (a rarity around here...and they wonder why people get sick and the children are malnourished???).