1. Common foods School food
Food in Ghana
Common foods
School food

2. Daily Bread School children and workers will eat this in the daytime
Here is the bread dough that is sold on the street

3. Here is the baked bread...
Ready to be sold

4. Preparing Akple
Akple – maize dough finely ground and boiled in water

5. Akple – Here’s the dough after it has been baked
Akple and Okro soup
Okro Soup – A soup made from finely chopped and ground red peppers, mixed with palm oil, okra and water. A smoked fish will be cooked in this soup.
Akple – Here’s the dough after it has been baked

6. Preparing the okra for the soup
Here are the vegetables, the chopped red pepper and the fish ready to be made into soup.

7. How to eat Akple and Okro soup.

8. Kenkey
When the Akple is covered with corn husk, and is steamed, a Kenkey is prepared

9. Preparing the Kenkey

10. Eating kenkey with your hands

11. Kenkey is eaten with fish cooked in red pepper sauce and hot spices.

12. Yam being fried A yam is a vegetable not dissimilar to a potato.
The yam is fried in palm oil.

13. Black eyed beans
The beans will be soaked then boiled and eaten with rice and palm oil.
Beans with Gari – what is Gari?

14. Common cereal - cassava
These grains of corn will be dried to make Gari.

15. Fufu is a soft dough eaten with meat or fish
Baked Cassava - Fufu
Fufu is a soft dough eaten with meat or fish

16. A popular common meal. Gari Beans cooked in a red pepper paste.
Smoked Mackerel cooked in a spicy tomato sauce.

17. An egg and tomato mixture
A quick breakfast
An egg and tomato mixture

18. Fish Why do the villagers eat so many fish?
Fish - first smoked then cooked –
Why do people smoke fish?

19. The fish will be eaten with Akple (maize)
Every single part of the fish is used – there is no waste!
The fish will be eaten with Akple (maize)
Everyone eats fish regularly.

20. Fish in sauce with akple

21. Groundnut soup with fish
Fish and cereals
Soft cereals
Groundnut soup with fish

22. Different kinds of fish
Do you recognize some of these fish?

23. Fish, catch, salt or smoke.
Storing the fish
Fish, catch, salt or smoke.

24. Fruit Coconuts – you can drink the milk.
These coconuts have fallen off the trees.
... And eat the flesh inside

25. Common fruits

37. Snacks we have bought Tomato sauce Tomato and red onion Fried Yam
Avocado
Salt
Fried Plantain

38. Bissap juice
Leaves from the Hibiscus flower are used to prepare this juice
The juice from the leaves are mixed with water and sugar

39. Rice and water
Quite often the schoolchildren will drink rice and water as a quick snack

40. The schoolchildren will drink this at playtime.
Maize and water - Koko
The schoolchildren will drink this at playtime.

41. Food available at school

42. Buying or bringing food

45. Preparing oranges for the purpose of eating

46. The preparation kitchen