The corn and corn products are then distributed to food banks throughout the network, and any excess is exchanged for staples such as chicken, milk, rice, and cooking oil.

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When not traveling for business, I make fruit, yogurt and unsweetened soy milk smoothies for breakfast and a brown-rice and bean salad for lunch.

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Italian pasta and Indian rice are sold alongside milk powder from Dubai and reminders of recent aid dependency in the form of cooking oil from the World Food Programme.

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Things like water, milk, bread, rice and even toilet paper have completely disappeared from supermarkets in my neighborhood.

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The chimps' diet consists of bananas, potato leaves, sweet potatoes, plantains, coconuts, palm nuts and other fruits and vegetables, in addition to rice balls fortified with powdered milk.

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Added to this is the popularity of eating large servings of white rice with every meal, as well as sweets loaded with sugar and milk.

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