Eating in Rabat (or at least, with this host family) is different than in Fes. People generally report not-quite-as-good-food, because I think a lot of Fesians are families with moms whose job it is to cook, whereas in Rabat the situation isn't quite the same.
Every day there are 4 meals - breakfast (bread or milwee and jam or honey or butter, a milwee is a little pancake thing - they're really good), lunch (varies -- often a tajine , generally has meat + vegetables + you eat it with bread), then a snack at ~6:30 which is identical to breakfast, and then dinner which can be as simple as spaghetti or sometimes a little more complex and resembling lunch.
There is less side dishes -- in Fes, we often had side dishes of eggplant, prunes, etc which let me have a good vegetable intake. Not so much here, unfortunately. Bread is a huge portion of my calories, and also meat. It's not terribly unusual to eat a meal of potatoes, bread, meat and eggs.
Couscous is definitely a Friday thing.
Every day there are 4 meals - breakfast (bread or milwee and jam or honey or butter, a milwee is a little pancake thing - they're really good), lunch (varies -- often a tajine , generally has meat + vegetables + you eat it with bread), then a snack at ~6:30 which is identical to breakfast, and then dinner which can be as simple as spaghetti or sometimes a little more complex and resembling lunch.
There is less side dishes -- in Fes, we often had side dishes of eggplant, prunes, etc which let me have a good vegetable intake. Not so much here, unfortunately. Bread is a huge portion of my calories, and also meat. It's not terribly unusual to eat a meal of potatoes, bread, meat and eggs.
Couscous is definitely a Friday thing.
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