Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, grocery shopping by bus: hundreds of kilos of rice, pasta, oil, coffee, tea, sugar, concentrated milk, biscuits, garlic, onions, herbs and spices, drinking water, without forgetting gas cooking equipment and dishes… and here is the basis for our meals. Already more than 50,000,000 roupies have been spent and it’s not finished!

Enough food for 6 weeks – Copyright : S. Quérouil / IRD

(translated by Lucie Bailly Barthelemy, Ange Fouilhe Chamontin, Camille Laporte, and Yohann Vien, L2 SVC–Life & Earth Sciences–UM2, France)