The diet in Paraguay is meat-heavy, with people eating beef and pork at almost every meal. There is little diversity of fruits and vegetables in the diet, and people get almost all of their calories from meat and carbohydrates. The main forms of carbohydrates include mandioca, also known as yucca, and corn.
I tried roasted pig and cow head.
In my program, before we went to live in our communities for two years, we visited our future host families in our communities for five days a month before leaving our training site. This visit aimed to ease us into living permanently in our communities and provided us with some context about our community during the last month of training. On this visit, I was at a birthday party for a friend of a family, and we drove over three hours to get there. My family has an older car, and every time we stopped to get gas or food on the way, my host mom, brother and I had to get out of the car and push it to start, and then get in again while the car was moving. We arrived after our arduous journey to a house that was off the beaten path, in the middle of nowhere. There was meat on the grill, and I was excited to eat. However, I was informed that the meat was the head of a pig, and I was a little less excited to eat after hearing that.
