Luckily for me (and everyone else on the trip) breakfast is actually a thing here. A typical breakfast includes tea, fruit or jello, and toast with a variety of toppings. My host parents have served everything from butter, to ham and cheese, to dulce de leche spread which I'm not particularly fond of, to mashed alvacado which I enjoy a lot.
That's something we discovered very eary on, if you're going to visit Chile you need to be prepared to eat a TON of carbs. I have never eaten more white bread (whole wheat doesn't exist down here) and potatoes in my life. Corn and pasta dishes are also very popular.
Lunch is generally considered the biggest meal of the day, so while I'm having dinner, my host
parents usually just have tea.
Lunches are on our own, so we usually use the time to explore the city. The first day we grabbed lunch at the food court in the mall, where we discovered you can order your Big Mac with alvacado or buy an ice cream cone for the equivalent of $0.50 from a McDonald's counter that ONLY serves ice cream. However we opted to try a place called frtiz. I'm still not entirely sure what was in the sandwhich, but it was good! Plus it was kinda cool to be in a place where they ask "would you like empanadas with that?"
Empanadas are extremely popular because they're fast, cheep, and portable. Available fried or baked and with a million different fillings.
Other lunchtime adventures include congril (turns out sometimes randomly choosing something from the menu doesn't always work in your favor. Not a fan.) And pastel de chaclo, corn cake, a tradicional
Chilena dish with beef, chicken, olives, onion, and a hardboiled egg all baked into a corn cassoral.
The menu of the day is also a good option for alumenzar. Most restaurants offer set menus that are affordable and delicious. This is a picture from a French cafe we found that had good food and wait for it...REAL coffee!
Afternoon tea is also very popular and after cake and tea at this adorable café, it's not hard to see
why.
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