Almost every school and every family has a vegetable garden. In good times with lots of rain, they can feed themselves with their harvest. However, with the droughts, the soil is like dust and things do not grow well. They eat steamed bread, potatoes, rice, porridge, and a dish called ‘papa’ which is kind of like mashed potatoes but made of corn meal.
The average person has porridge in the morning with a piece of steamed bread. At lunch and supper, there is usually papa and steamed cabbage. Sometimes there is a soup drizzled on the papa to give it flavor. The cabbage is cut up in small pieces and cooked. Sometimes there is mashed pumpkin and apples.
Children eat ‘fat cakes’ which are flour fried in fat…like a donut without a glaze. What they eat depends largely on how poor they are. If they can afford it, there is meat. Many children in Lesotho do not have much protein or meat. Some have one piece of protein (meat) in a school term. The diet is largely fat and starch.
2007-02-14 12:48:32
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answered by Porgie 7
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Many people in Lesotho live by hunting animals and cultivating vegetables. There is a lot of poverty and corruption in this country. There is also child slavery in this country. Food is very scarce.
2007-02-14 11:22:51
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answered by sammydavidjr 3
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