Greenlandic food
The main food
Greenlandic Inuit’s eat is mostly walrus, ringed seal, beluga whale, polar
bear, caribou, bearded seal, muskoxen, birds (including their eggs), berries
and plants that grow in warm weather.
To get the food Inuit’s eat they need to do things like:
Go fishing for fish,
Go hunting for meat such as polar bear, caribou and
muskoxen.
Go searching for plants to eat in the warm weather.
And go to the markets to buy food and other things like furs
and hunting equipment.
PRICES FOR FOOD
The prices in Greenland are much higher than what we pay
mostly because the food has to come from so far away so I made a list of some
prices of random food products.
1 KG of chicken breasts (skinless and boneless)… ($45.00 to
$60.00)
One dozen eggs…
($30.00 to $36.00)
1 KG of potatoes… ($25.00
to $30.00)
Lettuce 1 head
($30.00 to $35.00)
Local cheese (60.00 to 80.00)
Loaf of fresh white bread (500 grams) ($20.00 to $25.00)
WHAT GREENLANDIC
INUITS GROW FOR FOOD.
Blueberries and crowberries, harvested in the autumn, often garnish cakes and other desserts. Berry compotes accompany meat dishes. Seaweed is stored as a reserve food for winter. During the summer, roseroot, fireweed leaves, and Greenland lousewort are gathered. Green vegetables are scarce but the global climate has changed slightly and extended the growing season, so Greenlandic farmers are experimenting with new crops, such as broccoli.______________________________________________
Crowberries: the reason the name is called (crowberries) is because Crows eat he plant along with curlews, doves, pheasants and gulls, like to eat the berries of this plant.
Fireweed: a plant that springs up on burned land. The pink-flowered plant also grows in meadows and forests.
Roseroot: Rhodiola rosea is a plant in the Crassulaceae family that grows in cold regions of the world. Though little known as a medicinal plant, rose root has been used in traditional European medicine for over three thousand years, mainly as a tonic. _____________________________________________
CROWBERRIES
ROSEROOT
FIREWEED
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