My First Day "In" Congo-Kinshasa

I know it's been less than half a day since my last post, but  I wanted to update you on my first day of eating strictly Congolese food. I made sure to take pictures of everything that I ate to serve both as a visual representation as well as proof that yes I am actually preparing all of this and eating it every meal. I didn't eat breakfast today mainly because I was in a rush but here is what my lunch looked like:
I ate beans, corn, mango and rice. The mango was cut by me (not the kind you can buy in a container at Costco) and the rice cooked by me. I warmed up the beans and corn and ate the whole meal with only some salt as seasoning. I was surprisingly full after I was finished only a plate and a bit of extra rice. Usually I have a very large appetite but not today- I didn't even need a snack in between lunch and dinner.

And my dinner:

My dinner looked a lot like my lunch because my lunch contained much of the staple foods of the people of this culture. The only addition to dinner was Fufu which is very similar to mashed sweet potatoes but a bit fluffier due to vigorous mixing. There is a bit of butter added to the yams but not much. For some reason the Fufu tasted sweeter than the mashed yams I have had but I'm not sure why. I boiled the yams whole (which took forever), skinned them and then mashed them. It was a lot of work to get this meal ready and it felt great to eat it afterwards. The smells of the dish and the work it involved reminded me a lot of my time in Tanzania and the food we ate while we were there. I am really enjoying the food so far but we'll have to see :). I must say, almost two hours after eating I am still pretty full. The rest of the night I may have a banana and peanut butter, both parts of the list that was in my earlier post.  Day one completed!
P.S- Thank you CultureGrams for the Fufu recipe!!

This is the fufu- just thought I would prove I actually made it. That wooden spoon reminds me of the Ugali (a cornmeal mush) spoons they use in Tanzania