Eating,+Food+and+Diet+(Pierre)

Food
​ Seneal eats a wide veriety of foods. They eat all kinds of traditional foods just eaten on hollidays, to everyday snacks, fruits and vegetables, and love to but all kinds of foods into soups and stews. One of the most popular foods on special occasions is Chicken Yassa or Yassa au Poulet. This is a rather hot dish thanks to being marinated in habanero peppers. In it, of course is chicken and an addition to the peppers, you would add, lemon juice, onions, salt and pepper and some peanut oil. A popular snack in western Africa including Senegal is called fufu. You need water, cream of wheat, and potato flakes (salt and margarine are optional). These make a snack kind of like tater - tots loved by people in Senegal. A popular way to eat fruit and vegetables in Senegal is to make them into salads using popular fruits from around the world and they also use localy grown fruits and vegetables including mangoes and papaya. Soup and Senegal is very popular. They put meat, fish, vegetables, poultry and any other foods or spices they want to add or whatever they like in their soup.

Diet
Senegal eats a steady diet of meats, seafood, rice, fruits and vegetables. Girls in Senegal learn how to cook an prepare these foods. Some ethnic groups in Senegal even prepare French dishes. In Senegal, your wealth is judged upon body size because it shows that your family can afford the delicious food in large quantities. Due to the large Muslim population, most Senegalese people do not eat pork. Senegalese people also graze cattle and most own farms and chickens. Therefor, most peopler of Senegal eat a lot of poultry, beans, beef and drink large quantities of milk. Senegalese people like their food to be primarily spicy or sweet. They love to add mass amounts of sugar or vpepper on their dishes, sometimes they even add both. In Senegal, lunch is considered the main meal of the day. Since Senegal is a poor country, some people my just one meal a day and they eat when they are the most hungry. Although people in Senegal a lot of meats, seafood, rice, fruits and vegetables, Senegalese people prefer to eat millet as their meal of the day.

Eating
In Senegal, breakfast is eaten from 6-9 a.m., lunch is usually served from 1-3 p.m., and dinner is eaten after 8 p.m. In the traditional Senegalese home, genders eat separately. The food is usually placed in large bowls and are set on amat on the floor. Sometimes set on coffee tables. Usually, you would eat strait from the bowl with fingers or a spoon, rarely on an individual dish. Proper eating habits are established at a young age in Senegal. They must have clean hands, take only the amount of food that you are going to eat, and to never make eye contact with others who are eating. In Senegal, you may only eat with your right hand unless you are eating more difficult food to handle. You must never use your left hand in a communal bowl. In some ethnic groups, urban areas, or the rich Senegalese people eat with silverware, dishes, and follow the French eating habits. This is rare though because Senegal is a very poor country and most are native to this country and moth people prefer the Senegalese way.