List of the Day- Food

So this last week is filled with many thoughts. I'm going for a list of day of my most occupying thoughts, but I make no promises that I'll actually follow through on it.

This list has been on my mind for approximately 5 and 1/2 months. 

Foods I miss

1. Celery sticks with peanut butter
   
2. PB and J sandwich
   
3. Ruffles potato chips
   
4. Mashed potatoes
   
5. Peas
   
6. Stir fried cashew pineapple and chicken
   
7. Ham sandwich
   
8. Cinnamon rolls
   
9. Cereal
   
10. Milk
    
11. Strawberries
    
12. Milkshakes/ Smoothies
    
13. Pizza
    
14. Hash browns
    
15. Oreos
    
16. Sugar cookies
    
17. Banana bread
    
18. Pot stickers
    
19. Salad- walnut cherry vinaigrette cucumbers oooo.... or a citrus salad, or really any type of salad
    
20. Real pasta
    
21. Granola
    
22. Tostitos and salsa and guacamole
    
23. White grape salad
    
24. Raspberries and berries in general
    
25. Baby carrots (raw!)
    
26. Chicken Breast
27. Yoghurt/ Cucumber Tubule Pilaf
    
28. Mac and cheese and broccoli
    
29. BLTs
    
30. Sorbet
31. Orange Juice
32. Donuts from Abmas Farm
33.  Cheese- esp mozarella with some tomato and oil and vinegar 
    
34. Stir fry/ Fried Rice from bamboo house or Rice Kitchen
35. Brother's Pizza
36. Fruit other than apples, bananas and oranges. 

While not specific, I'm also looking forward to not having more than one starch at a meal ex. bread with mashed potatoes, or using bread to eat pasta.

I'm also looking forward to the general variety of the American diet. I can't say that I've had more than 20 different meals while being in Senegal, 90% of which involved fish, rice or fish and rice. Ooooo, cooked onions, I'm done with that for a while as well. 

Mom and Dad, please have nearly no food at home when I get back. I can't wait to go grocery shopping

Foods I will miss approximately 3 weeks after getting back. I will think about preparing them and then promptly not care. Maybe I'll even try to prepare them.

1. Ceebujen

2. Yassa Poulet

3. Lott (Apparently Ladyfish in the states)

Foods I will miss very quickly

1. Sugar peanuts sold on the side of the street for about a nickel

2. Tempo- A really terrible alternative to Oreos, but they only cost 25 cents for a whole roll

3. Thaikry-  A yoghurt type things with millet balls in it. It has saved me after many a nasty meal

4. Those chili flavored chips they sell at the gas station- so good

5. Lollipops that only cost 5 cents

6. Beignets- (really just donuts, but they are so good)

7. Nems- senegal's answer to eggrolls. 

8. Chawarma- (ok there are places in Kalamazoo and Ridgewood for it, BUT not at the awesome cost of 2 dollars. though you probably don't get diarrhea with it either)

9. Peanut Brittle- again, available in the states, but not for only a nickel! 

I might post a list tomorrow, but it depends how lazy I get. Hope I made you all hungry!