Great pasta recipe (cost 2 billion Zim dollars!)Esther (not her real name), 28, a professional living and working in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, has been writing a diary throughout the year, describing her struggle to survive in a country with an economy in freefall.
LIVING IN LIMBO
"The other day I saw this simple pasta recipe and thought I would buy the ingredients and try it out:
500 g pasta 750,000,000.00 Zimbabwe dollar
500 g minced beef 560,000,000.00
200 g cheddar cheese 120,000,000.00
Bag of mushrooms 480,000,000.00
So that is almost 2 billion for just to put one simple supper together!"
(Text & picture: BBC. Read more from her diary about the ups and downs of living in Harare over the past year: Zimbabwe diary
LIVING IN LIMBO
"The other day I saw this simple pasta recipe and thought I would buy the ingredients and try it out:
500 g pasta 750,000,000.00 Zimbabwe dollar
500 g minced beef 560,000,000.00
200 g cheddar cheese 120,000,000.00
Bag of mushrooms 480,000,000.00
So that is almost 2 billion for just to put one simple supper together!"
(Text & picture: BBC. Read more from her diary about the ups and downs of living in Harare over the past year: Zimbabwe diary
