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Foods are an essential part of what makes up a culture,and Santa Cruz is known for its interesting "Comidas Typicas". In Santa Cruz we are  Camba, meaning that the majority of the people are of Spanish/ Bolivian decent, due to the Spanish ancestry there is more of a European influence on the foods here...or atleast thats what ive been told. All i know is that the food is one of the things that i have realized to be the most different between Canada and Bolivia. Lunch here is the most important meal of the Day, there is ALWAYS  soup to start, either with chicken, carne, or platanos and then there is the main course that follows.I happen to love the soup here but it is not very popular among my family, regardless we have it everyday because thats just what you do here. For our main course there is always rice and then some kind of meat, usually chicken or beef. then there is "salad" which they consider to be any sort of diced/cubed vegetable on a plate or plain lettuce. salad dressing here, oil and salt, yuck. i just stick with the plain veggies, i like it that way. For breakfast we usually have bread or cereal, occasionally Saltenas which are like a pizza pocket minus all the salt and instead of being filled with pizza, they are filled with chicken or meat stew. they are super messy to eat but they are really good. Tea and chocolate milk are searved in my house with every meal, i usually stick with water because the tea tastes like the smell of llama and the milk here is like whipping cream, but at lunch  there is usually some kind of fruit juice, somo (a drink with a special puffed corn in the bottom, made with water, cinamon and corn flour), chicha (the same as somo minus the corn in the bottom and with lots of spices),  or bitter ( its like a bitter prune/grape/rosewater juice). Desert here comes after lunch , not after dinner, unless your at a dinner party but thats not the point because there you get cake no matter what so yeah. but after lunch it is really common for everyone to eat jello or a slice of cheese ( that tastes like olives :S) with Dulce de Leche or Mahablanko ( camba version of dulce de leche but without any milk.)Dinner here does not exist, my family will have a light snack at like seven but that is only if you want, usually it is either arepa ( cheese and blended corn all cooked together in a frying pan), sandwich (that means cheese and mayonaise...no veggies...occasionally mortadella), bread with butter, or masacko (fried plantains or yucca that have been mashed into a million pieces with cheese and meat). dinners are nothing substancial unless you are going to a party, in that case you eat alot and it is usually at like 11 or 12 at night, everything here starts really late! when in bolivia, try everything, that is my advice, there are so many new things here, Im loving that!