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AUGUST 2014
Mrs Q.s mother prepares roti with beeh (lotus root) for the household. Photo: Collective for Social Science Research
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Items
Unit
Last years
price (PKR)
Wheat
1,200
Sack
1,200
Wheat flour
40
kg
30
Rice
90
kg
6070
60
kg
4050
50
500g
2530
2 potatoes
30
kg
1520
80
kg
3040
Milk
60
kg
3040
Chicken
280
kg
180200
Small fish
110
kg
6070
Tea
10
Sachet
Oil/ghee
140
Packet
110
Sugar
60
kg
4050
Salt
Packet
23
Chillies
200
kg
50
Mrs Q.s mother cooks for the family with ingredients purchased by Mrs
Q. They then eat together. On a normal day, the family has tea and
paratha or roti (flatbreads) for breakfast, daal chana (split gram pulses)
and rice for lunch, fried potatoes and rice for dinner and tea with
samosas later in the evening.
On the day the team met the family, Mrs Q.s mother was preparing roti
with beeh (lotus root) for the household.
Recipe for the beeh
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