Classroom Costa Rica

Despite less choice, Costa Ricans manage well on the foods they have.  Rice and beans are the staples, with lots of variation.  We had rice and beans every day but with different varieties; sometimes black and brown beans and sometimes yellow and white rice. At my home stay I had sweet yellow bread, but I do not know what is was made of.

We had a lot of fruit. We had watermelon, mango, coconut, orange, banana, plantains, sugarcane and lots more. We had salad twice. I had steak and two hamburgers.
We had hardly any meat because the people did not have much money I think most of their cows were for milk, though the only way I had milk there was in hot chocolate.
The food was very different but I ate all of it to be polite.  There was much less junk food and candy in Costa Rica then in the United States. I saw some in super markets but not where we had our home stays.
I had started to read about the cuisine of Costa Rica before I left for the trip. A lot of the things I had read about I got to eat such as rice, beans, fruit and eggs. But some things I did not have. For instance we did not have corn, tortillas, or squash.
All in all the food in Costa Rica was great I would recommend it to you.

-Tim

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