Foods I miss from home, An Ongoing List!

-First of all, on behalf of Ben: the Hoagie House, burritos and all things Mexican, Thai food, Burger King Whoppers, and all things Indian!

-Cheerios! Oatmeal! Oatmeal, oatmeal, oatmeal... You can get it at Costco in Seoul. Might as well fly home to Canada, about the same amount of work involved! Flax seeds and molasses and other healthy stuff I put in oatmeal to jam my family full of nutrition...

-Tea. Tea, tea, tea. Too bad I'm just not a green tea gal. Orange pekoe, Irish Breakfast, Chai Rooibos, Western style fruit teas... Good ol' tea. (We do drink a lot of Korean Buckwheat Tea at our house here. It's good for Ben's ezcema and my varicose veins, which you wanted to know, I'm sure! We usually have a cup each after the kids are in bed.)

-Fruit. This is the fruit we eat at home, and, ONLY these fruits, for a whole year it seems:
1) Apples (very healthy, no complaining, very glad for
apples! The boys love them, Really, it's great.)
2) clementines/mandarins. Cheap and healthy.
3) raisins (do they count?)
4) bananas, when we're not tired them! We're tired of
them, though!!!
5) Once in a while, a huge Asian style pear. But they're
quite expensive too. They are huge!
Ok, so they HAVE other fruit here, it's just INSANELY
expensive. You can buy a small cantaloupe, a very small
watermelon, a small cored pineapple, a quart box of very
pale strawberries (right now) or a bunch of grapes (we
used to buy grapes more), for 6,000.00 won each. Which
is at least $6.00. $6.00!!!! for a cantaloupe!! That's
what I miss. I do appreciate that in Canada we have all
this variety of fruit and veggies at the expense of the
environment, all that fuel used for shipping and
transporting, and growing things out of season, I know
it's not good for the environment, but right now I really
miss it. Esp. since they boys aren't eating well right now,
I'd love to have plentiful cantaloupe, pineapple,
watermelons, mangoes, to give them! Also, our city here
is famous for persimmons, they are quite abundant,
really. But, none of us like them, and they make my
tongue swell, so it's a no-go. Snookered!

-Canned lentils. On their own, or any kind of dish that contains them. Mmmm. They cook dry lentils in rice here, but it's not the same.

-Mom's Turkey Dinner. Turkey, the last hurdle to veganism! So good!!

-Yams, or, North American Orange Sweet Potatoes. Same thing! We have purple skinned, white fleshed sweet potatoes here, in abundance, but not the same. Different taste, definitely different texture. Heavier and not as smooth. And I don't think as nutritious.

-Canned and frozen peas. We have canned peas here, but they are their Western counterpart's ugly, starchy, really hard cousin. Blech! But, definitely better than nothing!

-Canadian soy milk. It's sweeter and thicker here. But better than nothing!

-Indian buffet restuarants with Ben.

-Homemade Bread, and, whole grain bread.

-Campbell's Vegetable Alphabet Pasta for the boys.

-The Burger King Veggie Burger.

-Homemade muffins, cookies, banana bread, zuchinni bread, carrot muffins...

-Heidi's Sunday night Church dinners....

-Hot Chocolate

-OVALTINE!!!! It's right there in the Philippines, I know it! So close and yet so far away!!

-Quinoa, with a bit of butter and soya sauce... Mmmm, healthy goodness...