127 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 <strong>Food</strong> 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,
128 Table A5-2: Morning Secondary Meal <strong>Food</strong> Ingredients Preparation Accompaniments coffee, chocolate, sweet corn meal (akasan) <strong>Food</strong> Combination Rules for Secondary Morning Meal Salt food Morning Rules No chicken, pork, beef except embedded in fried bread or spaghetti Sauces are restricted to fish with hotdog becoming a new exception Major viv are plantain and green banana Sauces are eaten with plantains and/or green bananas No legim Sweet <strong>Food</strong> Morning Rules Any liquid or gruel that is sweet can and even should be consumed with bread: coffee, chocolate, akasan, akamil…. All liquids and gruels should ideally be mixed with milk coconut oil/juice Either milk or coconut oil/juice; never both No yogurt No milk alone Patey in the morning/ marinad afternoon and night Rule Exceptions Corn and with pureed bean sauce