BEIRUT: After a year of economic meltdown in Lebanon, Hala Sheikh is sticking to a modest menu as she prepares the evening meal for her family to break their daily Ramadan fast.
Even the humble fattoush, a popular salad that she prepares for dinner, has tripled in cost since last year, leaving millions of Lebanese struggling to put food on the table in the Muslim holy month which is usually a time of celebration.
“We didn’t want to prepare unnecessary stuff,” Sheikh said as she got ready for the first Ramadan meal this week. “We prepared basic things like fattoush, soup and a main course we will not prepare big meals like last year or the year before.”
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Once comfortable, life in Lebanon now a struggle for basics
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A shopper examines egg prices in a supermarket in Beirut, Lebanon. Many people are struggling to cover basic needs as food prices soar. Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE
Sabine Bustros (L), with her late father Michel Bustros who founded in the 1950s Chateau Kefraya, a Lebanese wine label and wine estate in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon, says she keeps spending to the necessities now. Photo courtesy of Sabine Bustros/UPI
BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 14 (UPI) Lebanon s latest economic crisis has transformed the people s once comfortable lifestyle into a struggle to secure basic needs.
After a year of economic meltdown in Lebanon, Hala Sheikh is sticking to a modest menu as she prepares the evening meal for her family to break their daily Ramadan fast.
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