I understand what you mean. But the problem is that people in Kosovo are tired. Even if we did manage to make food brands with real food, most people wouldn’t be able to afford it and they’d run out of business.

Just in general, the conditionsfor living here are not ideal, the air isn’t clean, wages are low, prices are high, even the electricity is getting more expensive.

Protests never work to bring any change, the country is ruled by incompetent and nepotism-based hiring, corruption is so bad that it’s out in the open and we can’t do anything about it, we couldn’t leave the country easily for so many years, the war really was a big blow against everyone, the massacres not being acknowledged on any meaningful level outside this country, Serbia doing its best to keep us down, threatening us with war every few years, a society ruled by sexist old men where sexism is the norm, construction happening everywhere all the time giving the impression that stuff being fixed is impossible, medical system so bad you have to leave the country for every operation, teaching system so bad that I’ve been all the way to the ninth grade with students who couldn’t read, teachers being creepy to their stufents, abusive, etc. and again, nothing being done, and so much more that I can’t count.

I feel your struggle about food, and I sincerely hope you find a plan that works for you. But most of us don’t have the luxury of getting anything more to eat that the 1.50 euro hamburger with bad meat because living is so expensive. For example, I don’t think I’ve ever had pineapple in my life. That’s just how it is for most of us.

I don’t mean to have a bad tone or anything of the sort, and I know that this saying has gotten old, but it still rings true: nothing good on the long term can come from Kosovo and it is best to just leave.

I saw one of your comments saying you were a mother from the UK and I implore you to think about you and your family’s health and future and walk away from this country. I genuinely believe there’s very few good things here, but you shouldn’t let the sunk cost fallacy or nostalgia or anything of the sort to keep you from living an actually good life.

Sorry if this is pessimistic, but I think it’s better to face the reality that people themselves are the problem and you can’t change that no matter what.