food is yummy and cheap

The Blackburn/Dillons said food was boring in Ecuador, but I'm loving it :)
A typical breakfast for me is papaya and banana with granola and yogurt. The fruit here is just wonderful: there's a lot of it and it's really cheap. I've tried many fruits that I've never seen of heard of in the US(uvillas and guanabana, to name some), which is neat. They also eat green bananas (it's a different, larger kind of banana) allll the time. I've had little banana ball/pancake things that are cooked with egg and onions, I've had banana chips (which are salty, not sweet), today I had banana/potato soup, I've had sort of squished banana circles as a side instead of potatoes, I've had fried bananas a desert, and I'm sure there have been more that I've forgotten. Green bananas don't have a lot of taste but they are very versatile and good.
My favorite food here so far has been humitas; they're corn-based tamales, more of less; they also don't have a lot of flavor but they're vaugley sweet and SO good.
A typical lunch consists of a soup (frequently potato-based, and frequently with lots of cilantro :)), and then an entree, which is a meat, rice, and some veggies or beans or some other side, and juice also. Sometimes there's a desert (cake, fruit, etc). That's the big meal; dinners are smaller and have similar food (or bananas!) but there's a lot less of it.
Oh, if you want to eat that lunch I just described and you go to any little family-owned restaurant, it's going to cost $2.50 max.
Bread is also really delicious here, and cheap! You can get a good-sized roll or croissant for 10 or 20 cents easily from a panaderia (bread store: they're everywhere!). I unfortunately have yet to see any whole wheat, whole grain, rye etc type bread but I've heard that the grocery store has some so I'm planning on getting some

There are also American restaurants like Pizza Hut, Burger King and McDonalds of course, but it's easy to avoid them.