Where you buy your food in Uganda

High school classmate Sadie Struss traveled to Uganda one day to visit a friend and help facilitate training sessions for Special Education. Before the trip, I asked Sadie if she would blog about it, and she made it her mission to record everything about food that she could.

In Uganda most families have personal gardens, but they also go to a market to buy food that they don’t grow themselves. Supermarkets are just starting to arrive. Here are some pictures from a variety of markets.

As you enter the market, you see lots of goods for sale. Clothes, shoes, books, tubs. etc.

This market in Entebbe had a covered area where the food was kept.

One thing you can buy in the market is dried silver fish. These fish are used in a soup and other dishes. I ate some later in the week so you will see pictures of them prepared.

That's silver fish in the blue bag.

You can also see the other foods that are available. Mangos for example were 1,000 shillings or about 30 cents. Next to the bag of fish are oranges. Oranges are not orange in Uganda so they think the name is very funny.

Meat is also available in the market. If you bought something like chicken, you would be buying a live chicken to take home and kill and clean. I did not eat meat while traveling.

Beans are a major part of the Ugandan diet, as well as dried green peas.

Next up: Street foods in Uganda.