Foods of Ghana


Unfortunately, I haven’t got anything particularly exciting to update you on, so I thought I would go back and show you some of the different foods here. The only things worthy of note are my new counterpart team leader arrives soon, going to Mole National Park tomorrow to see some animals (squee!), spent some of the week with the new volunteers on the REACT project and been doing paperwork and training…...

That’s all so here come the foods!

Breakfast - bread brought from the bread seller who visits the house every morning, groundnut paste, jam, nescafe coffee with powdered milk and a doxycycline to prevent malaria. 

Breakfast 2 - Omelette sandwich, always on white bread as hard and expensive to find anything different. 

Dinner Option 1 - Plain rice, beans and fried plantain (commonly called red red and the beans are served in a tomato sauce)

Dinner Option 2 - Guinea fowl, lettuce, fried rice, ketchup/mayo and shito (a pepper and spice mix)

Dinner Option 3 - Banku (fermented corn and pounded cassva dough with hot water) okro stew and a piece of tilapia (common fish) 

Dinner Option 4 - Jallof rice (boiled rice mixed with onions and tomato paste) with fried chicken

Dinner Option 5 - Indome instant noodles, chicken sausages and garnish

Takeaway - you can get pizza if the mood takes you but be prepared to pay high prices and wait 3 hours for delivery 

Western restaurants - it is possible to  go to place like Wooden and get western food but can't make a habit of it and you definitely pay for the privilege. There are several NGOs in the area which is why these places stay in business. 

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