/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11597745
Third worlder here

Not exactly humiliating but prolly this. Steamed cassava. Eaten as is with black coffee for breakfast, and served with wild edible and grilled catfish/snakefish and a little condiments (salt, chilli pepper) for lunch and dinner.

For context, we were poor back then, asian financial crisis hit hard and my dad lost his job as an electrician for power company. We moved to the countryside to farm on our land while setting up small sundry shop to make ends meet. Rice is practically a luxury so we only eat rice once a day, sometimes every other day, with all the money is spent on me and my siblings' education. Most family plant cassava in their backyard (since it require little care) and we usually fish by the river so everything is practically free. We cook stuff mainly with firewood because kerosene is expensive (and used mainly as source for light) and cooking oil is also expensive and used only sparingly so most of our dish is either steamed, boiled or grilled

At least our family never went hungry, not even once back then despite eating eating stuff that is essentially famine food on daily basis. All of us finished college educationn and the farm and supermarket are doing great now