I am having serious food issues down here I kind of guessed I would before I got here and have absolutely nobody to blame but myself but I am entitled to have a little moan so I shall I have a hotplate here a hotplate is an electric piece of crap with two electric rings that you can TRY to cook on I was TRYING to cook for 6 of us lastnight it took me about 3 hours the rice turned to mash potatoe and got thrown away the chicken was nice and could not even be bothered to wait for the water to boil again to do any pasta or any thing else.I had big plans for the home cooked meal but it all turned to @@@@
You just cannot cook for a family on a hotplate.And I already know this as my holiday last year we were given a hotplate and after 2 days of pain in the ass hotplate I upgraded to half board but upgrading is expensive in Jamaica I just do not have the funds.So basically I am very hungry, the kids are fed but all I have had is fried chicken, jerk chicken, curry chicken, boiled chicken.
I know I said I love chicken and rum but come - on.So now my options are to grocery shop which is sky high prices to begin with and they hardly have any choice here it is chicken chicken or yes you guessed it more chicken.Then once I get all the groceries it lasts only one day because everyone is so hungry they raid the lot so money food budget blown again.Plus then I have to try and cook it on hotplate FFS.HELP ME .
So thats option number one - number two is dine out 4 times a day and starve the remainder 3 weeks of the trip when the food budget runs out.It is pretty much blown now already.
Or option 3 try and keep nagging some random men in the street to cook for me or I liked fattys but that means sending someone in a taxi and it is far away.
And I just cant afford to dine out all day every day for all of us.
I thought we could eat patties in the daytime and dine out in the evening.But by day 2 the kids were sick of patties and they are the only cheap and cheerful thing I know.
So I am not looking forward to todays food escapades.It is really hard work.I miss having a kitchen.I will never Not have a kitchen if I have a low budget as it is making life impossible.I am sick of having a chicken leg for lunch and a chicken breast for dinner and a chicken wing for supper.I am now really craving good Jamaican food that I came here for and cannot wait to see our neice that lives here in a couple of weeks.I am going to go to stay with her for a bit and she always feeds me well and teaches me new meal ideas.I love homemade coleslaw and I have not even seen any yet this trip let alone eat any.I am going to try to find some cheap curry goat in a bit.
Enough of my moaning I have no-one else to blame but myself.I know what my family are like , they like 4 meals per day plus snacks.Everyone was saying oh you will manage with patties daytime and a take out at night thats enough and low cost WRONG not working.
I am gutted I only found fattys on my last day at shields I should have gone there every night. 400j for good homecooked real Jamaican food.