The Traveler's Diet

I have always been somewhat bad at feeding myself. During summers in hıghschool it was not at all uncommon for me to eat only one meal a day or no real meals at all and living on my own this practice has transferred over. It is only natural therefore that while travelling I have not eaten as much or as well as I should as mentioned in the previous post bread is the standard fare at most meals, if you want to call them such, but we do not subsist purely on bread which at around 50 kurush is very affordable but also on watermelon which costs some 3 lira and lasts two or three days. The added benefit of the watermelon is that it is a great deal of fun to eat and even more so to drink the juices after it has been finished.
As we are travelling it would be a shame to go without trying Turkish food and I have in abundance while I was working I eat a full three meaks a day of traditional Turkish food and quite enjoyed it save for the yoghurt soup which I found too salty. Since then David and I have been to many restaurants from cheap places to pick up a pide or dnair to upmarket Ottoman restautants where the date of the recipie you are trying is listed on the menu next to the disconcertingly hıgh (In the light of most of our meals) price, mine was from the 15th Century.
Though bread does provide a good snack others are called for from time to time and in these times David and I turn to Rondo cookıes which cost under 1 Lira for a pack and form a distressingly large part of our dıet. And while speaking of such items I would be remiss not to include icecream on this list as we seem to be buying it more and more in the past week much to our tasebud's pleasure and our wallet's distress.
And then of course there is the food which I have been given, the Turks are nothing if not friendly and I have had the pleasure to try fruits and vegetables picked straight from their gardens and offered to me with a charmingly misalinged smile and some mumbled words of Turkish. Among these fall the most delicious raspberries ı have ever eaten and some kind of white peach or perhaps plum? peppers bread cheese parsley dates plums peaches sour cherry juice and simit (a round bagel like thing) round off the lıst. These were given to me in many different sıtuations sometimes sitting in the farmers backyard sipping tea other times approached while working and sometimes completely randomly like the old lady who, noticing that I had not gotten off the bus at the rest stop bought me a simit and some sour cherry juice or the old man who, giving me a ride in his tractor, offered me some dates.