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Peanut butter and yak meat? :) Countdown to Nepal

Slated to be next on our vacation radar screen...Nepal. It is fair to say, in some respects, we have a small idea of what to expect courtesy of fellow travelers and the Lonely Planet guide to Nepal. We know there will be baby elephants we can feed and bathe. We know there's the tallest mountain in the world to see. We know Tibet is right next door (wishing we had gone to Tibet earlier, before the Chinese started their cruel and systematic decimation of a culture.) During an off-the-cuff conversation the other day, an acquaintance tells me he recently lost 15 pounds without even trying. "Really? What's your secret?". He said, "I just came back from 2 weeks in Nepal. Enjoyed the visit but couldn't eat the food". Silently, I'm panicking. I've never traveled to a country where I didn't find something yummy to eat. Be it pad thai or fried bananas in Thailand, eggplant rollatini and bistecca florentine in Italy, pho (noodle soup) and spri