Food in Ghana

As I told you a few posts back, meat is not too avoidable here, usually you can substitute it for fish. Eating around the head is still something I'm adjusting to.

Fufu, a mixture of cassava and plantain that is beat until it has a gummy consistency is a big staple. It looks like mashed potatoes, but it isn't. It is usually in stew, and you eat it with your hand. This was the first Fufu I tried (goat meat on the side), and after getting used to the texture, I really enjoyed it.

Ghanaians only eat with their right hands. The left being for other important uses.

Victoria told me that the food tastes better when you eat it with your hand, and I actually agree with her, although it has taken some getting used to.


Other staples which are eaten with stew are rice (plain, fried, and spiced), yam and plantain.

Last night we had something called egushie, which tastes like egg but is a plant, which spinach, onions and palm oil.

We ventured to the supermarket, Shoprite, which was located at the Accra mall. Many things were comparable in price, but produce was extremely expensive. With one Ghanaian Cedis being equal to roughly one American dollar, these strawberries on the bottom shelf were almost twenty dollars! The equivalent in the US, probably being an expensive six dollars, considering the package was not even half full.


Last night we spent the evening over some beers at a restaurant in downtown Accra, and Guinea fowl made an appearance again: