About Laotian Food

This post is about some Laotian Food. I'll talk about the most served food, and compare the food to Canada. This information was provided by my mom. She lived in Laos and i asked her about the food she ate and how she got it, and this is what she said :

• most meals were served with rice(and probably still are) , or included rice (rice was one of the main foods in Laos, and im pretty sure some other Asian countries too)
• lots of vegetables and fruits were grown because you would normally have lots of fruit trees (which you would have to climb) and vegetable plants around your home in Laos
• there were no little snacks like candy, ice cream sandwitches or chocolate cake
• there were no packaged foods like fruit cups or canned pasta/sauce
• to get food like chicken, you would have to find one and kill it, it wasn't the most pleasant thing, but they had to do it because Laos was a very poor country
• you couldn't just buy every kind of food or snacks you wanted, usually you would have to make everything yourself

In Canada, we could usually go to a grocery store and buy the things we want to eat. We have packaged foods ready to be bought, and we have candy, pop and things that are already made for us. Sometimes we buy ingredients to make food of our own, but most ingredients aren't made by us. I think that buying food for us, is a little easier than making everything by ourselves, but in Laos (and other not very wealthy countries), it is easier to make because they don't have a lot of money.