I am a proponent of healthy eating. It's rare that I manage to eat properly, especially with all these travels and new places, but I try. Right now, I've switched to a healthy eating mode. Here in Africa, it's very easy (if you resist the restaurants, which cost about the same as eating healthy at home), because even the supermarkets have a ton of healthy food. The most common ones are SPAR and WoolWorth. WoolWorth is considered quite expensive. Most products are made in South Africa, and many people here are into eating right and staying in shape; you can feel it immediately. Only now did I realize how rarely you see truly overweight people here. The supermarkets are filled with an insane amount of fresh fruits and vegetables, especially exotic ones like pineapples, mangoes, and avocados, all at relatively low prices. For example, today I bought 2 slightly-smaller-than-average pineapples and paid 20 rand. These were the sweetest pineapples of my life. In Italy, I get hooked on tangerines; here, I feel like a pineapple period has started in my life. A mango costs 7 rand on average, and my favorite cherry tomatoes are 10 rand for a 200-gram pack. By the way, you can buy pâtés made from exotic animals right in the supermarket: for example, zebra or crocodile. Yesterday we tried zebra pâté. It's just like any other pâté.

But again, buying groceries for home costs about the same as eating in restaurants and cafes. And the restaurants here are incredibly tempting: Italian restaurants run by Italians (like the one I work at), restaurants with authentic African cuisine (and an incredible variety of animals whose meat you can try there), as well as restaurants that offer the freshest seafood, and, of course, sushi. Well, there you go. I made myself hungry. I'm going to go boil some beets...