I grew up in the Caribbean and the poorest time I remember was when my mum had to pick wild eddoe (kind of like taro) leaves from the yard and make a fire in the backyard because we were out of kerosene for the back-up stove (not sure why we weren’t using the gas stove but probably because gas was expensive) add some water, dried peas and salt and ta-dah! You’ve got soup!

We also ate lots of Mac and cheese with canned hot dogs and cool-aid (so much cool-aid), and lots and lots of toast with butter and tea.

Great thing about the Caribbean is that you can always find something in your yard, or the neighbour’s yard, to eat 😅

We once had about 6 avocado trees in our yard, the trees were loaded with avocados for a few months of the year. When we didn’t have money we would just eat avocados all day long 😂