The Food

Several people have asked about what we eat here in the Sandbox, so here's the 'diet'

I do cook for myself. Well, I'll use the term cook broadly. Pretty much at some point every day I have a grilled cheese sandwich (yes, of all the things that you can not get here, you can get individually wrapped slices of normal cheese) and some sort of soup, Ramen noodles (again, of all things) or individually packaged, add water, types of things. Also at some point every day we have popcorn. We actually have a microwave, the problem is that there is no microwave popcorn so we have to do it the old fashioned way with the pan and oil. Good thing that as a last minute thought my mom briefly explained to me that you can actually make popcorn from scratch, otherwise I'd just be lost.

Then sometimes we cook and when we cook, it's hard core. We made beef stroganoff from scratch, who would have thought you could do that? And it wasn't so bad. We also have to make our own tortilla chips which begins with making our own tortillas. Believe it or not, it's not that hard. Just takes some time and it's really hot when the stove's going, so we try to make a lot at one time. We also have to make our own hot sauce, again, not as hard as I would have thought. My roommates and I really don't cook that much at home, but being the good bpts that we are, we have plenty of pot-lucks!

I did have my first Sandbox style meal this week with my new landlord's wife. She got a huge round tray and put all the different dishes on it, then we went to town using just our hands. It actually is pretty gross. You just have to try not to think about the fact that 10 people are grabbing the rice out of the same dish, then dipping it into some kind of sauce with meat, then eating, then doing it again. It was alot of fun though!