What's for dinner?

Do you ever get this question from your kids? or your husband??? I get this alot. I always have. For once my response usually has a common thread to it. "What's for dinner?" they ask----rice is my reply. Filipinos think it is not a meal if you do not eat rice. Bread is reserved for snacks not lunch time sandwiches or meals. You discover this when you see the kids meals at McDonalds are served with a side of rice. So while we forgo the rice for breakfast and lunch on most days, we do eat rice about 5 nights a week for dinner. We have eaten more rice in the 4 months we have lived here that we ate in the last 15 in the states. I used to buy a little small couple pound bag of rice that would last for months, maybe more. Here we buy it in 20 Kilo sacks. (There are roughly 2.2 lbs per kilo) We have been through almost 2 of them! Both kids were OK rice eaters in the states. While Emily has taken to rice like an Italian to Spagetti, Will groans when he sees it coming. He could never have rice again and be perfectly happy.




Here Emily is sitting on the Nelsen's 50 kilo bag of rice. I guess that we will soon move up to this size.















Tonight's dinner--Smoked Bangus,
rice, salad, and fresh pineapple.
A Filipino delight! Not for Emily and Will