Food for thought

So we are back in Canada now. We drove home from New Jersey yesterday. Of course we had to go through a snow storm in New York about 15 miles from the border to get here.
We have talked about food a few times on this blog and in general the food in Cameroon, although sometimes strange to us, was usually pretty healthy – grilled fish, bread and fresh fruit.
Friday night after we got in, we went out to eat with Deb’s Aunt Jo. I had been craving a steak as we had not had a lot of beef in our diet over the last three weeks. The ladies suggested gourmet burgers. I could live with that, so off we went.
The menu was mouth-watering and the large 20 ounce beer fit right in with my Cameroon beer diet. I ordered a big stack of onion rings to start. A deep fried stack of goodness seemed like the perfect way to start the evening. Then the burgers came. Mine had more deep fried onions on it with a peppercorn sauce and lots of melted cheese. Mmmmm… lots of greasy goodness.
I don’t think that Deb and I were out of the door before that big ball of grease in our stomach hit us like a lead weight. We were chewing on antacids for desert.
There were very few overweight people in Cameroon and we had a lot of time during our seven hour drive home to re-enjoy our gas-producing burgers from the previous night and to reevaluate our diet. We ate fairly healthy before but there is room for improvement and hopefully this blog entry will be a reminder for me when I get the old greasy burger cravings.