Food Consumption Patterns Part 2

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Secondary Meals
When asked most Haitians identify only one secondary meal per day, in the morning. But it can
be said confidently that in urban popular class there are two if not three secondary meals per day:
breakfast, a late afternoon or early evening food, and a light food before bed. These are simpler
meals than seen above but also highly consistent with highly patterned rules that say a great deal
about acceptable food combinations and help us understand where and how peanuts can be
promoted in the Haitian diet. We begin with the morning secondary meal (Table ##).
Secondary Morning Meal
“Sweet” and “Salt” foods permitted. The meal is light and often eaten mid morning, 8 – 10 am.
Table A5-2: Morning Secondary Meal
Food Ingredients Preparation Accompaniments
Coffee Sugar, milk/coconut Boiled Bread
Chocolate Sugar, milk/coconut, Cinnamon, Boiled Bread
Citronel, lime peel, Star Anise,
Akasan
meal)
(corn
Paté Chodye
(wheat flour)
Paté (wheat
flour)
Plantain or green
banana
Herring/fish
local/hotdog
sauce
Spaghetti
Feuille d’inde, vanilla
Milk, Sugar, Cinnamon, Citronel,
lime peel, Star Anise, Feuille d’inde,
magarine, vanilla
Boiled
Bread
Oil, egg/herring/hotdog. piklez Fried Avocado, banana,
(spicy cole slaw with no mayo)
catsup, mayonnaise,
piklez
Oil, egg/herring/hotdog Bake Nothing
Nothing Boiled Herring/fish
local/hotdog sauce
tomato paste, bouillon cube, parsley, Fried in/as Boiled plantain or green
clove, margarine, onion, hot pepper, sauce banana
salt
Boiled and
then sautéed
Oil, garlic, jamon/herring/hotdog/
ground beef, leeks. parsley,
margarine, tomato paste, bouillon
cube, onion, hot pepper
Tomato, lettuce, egg,
hotdog, tabasco, catsup,
mayonnaise, onion
Egg 1
Oil, salt, bouillon cube, lime, sodium Fried (served Tomato, lettuce, egg,
bicarbonate, hotdog/smoked herring in sandwich hotdog, tabasco, catsup,
form or with mayonnaise, onion
spaghetti, see
above)
Egg 2 Nothing Boiled Tabasco, salt, banana
Banana Raw Peanuts, bread
Peanuts Roasted Banana, bread, avocado
Bread - Simple or
toasted
Peanuts. Peanut butter,
banana, cheese spread,