Food

Most of you know that food has been an issue for our family. Joel has lost a good 30 pounds and Dara has lost about 20 pounds in our first 1 1/2 months! We have all been doing better having settled into a home where we can control the food selection and cooking. Dade even ate cabbage cooked with bacon, onion, and soy sauce!

However, last week our friend Ruth gave us a cup partially filled with roasted termites! Dara was the one most excited about trying them and when no one else was interested in them she was so sad. So sad, in fact, that Joel felt compelled to try them with her. It went so fast, I wasn't able to photograph like I would have liked and he wasn't willing to do it a second time so...here they are...

This is the cup with the termites...

Here is Joel thinking twice about the termite and confirming his love for Dara...

This is while he was chewing what he described later to be "a bit sweet"

but he didn't really focus on it all too much - just got it down.

Then it was Dara's turn, she had a hard enough time eating potatoes and carrots. I really didn't know how she was going to get a bug down her throat.
She was excited and nervous, almost timid.

She was poised and ready...

but couldn't get her hands to let go into her mouth. Her body just couldn't do it, and I couldn't blame her.

Here's a close up of one on a piece of paper. Do you think you could eat it? I'm sure some of you have and my hat is off to you!
On a different food topic, I made cottage cheese today! I wanted to have some for lasagna tonight, and it was really quite simple to do. Dara, who does like cottage cheese, said that it would be good if it was cold (I was too excited for her to try it that I served her a bite immediately after I made it - it was more than luke warm which would be a bit gross) .I feel quite grown up!