What's available in village?

There’s not a lot of food available in my village, especially compared to what’s available in medium-sized markets in the West, for example.  Normally I can find:  eggs, sugar, bread, white flour, spaghetti, popcorn, milk powder, beans, garlic, onion, MSG cube (aka “Maggi” or “Cube”), palm oil (clarified and regular), tomatoes, limes, rice, edible leaves, okra, bananas, and beef.  Seasonally, pineapples, passion fruit, wild mushrooms, cashew fruit, lemons, avocados, mangoes, oranges, African eggplant, potatoes, sweet potatoes, lettuce, soy beans, fresh milk, and dankali nassara can be found.  Right now dankalis are going out of season, but there are plenty of potatoes and African eggplant.

Two hours north or south I can also get green peppers, green beans, carrots, cabbage, basil, celery, parsley (the combination of the three is known as “condiments verts”), vegetable oil, yogurt and French bread (North of me, only).  In the closest regional capitol, eight plus hours away, I can get UHT cream, cheese, butter, soy and sunflower oil, candy bars (sometimes), whole wheat flour (sometimes), cereal, powdered sugar, eggplants, zucchini, cucumbers, “condiment verts,” and potatoes.  Finally, four hours beyond that city, in another region’s capitol, I can get brown sugar.  Makes your trip to the grocery store seem easy, doesn’t it?

The tags on my posts refer to where the ingredient come from.  “Big city eating,” for instance means the main ingredients came from outside my village.