Nepal 14, Eating and Sleeping

Food is cheap and wholesome if you eat as the locals do. I’ve had no trouble so far with my stomach at all.
The local dish is Dhal Bhat which is literally lentil rice but its more than that! Its eaten twice a day with small snacks in between. At the Green Tara Hotel with my Dad, I ate the same dish each night but each time it was different because its cooked fresh with different vegetables, meat or cheese. Im eating mostly vegetable dhal bhat. Nutritionally its well balance with one or two curried vegetable dishes a dish of plain rice or flat bread, Dhal (soup like and the protein element) and a hot sauce/pickle. The curry is not overly greasy or sweetened as it is in the UK.

Im not eating it twice a day though, breakfast is cheap in the hotel, eggs or cereals are my usuals.
Now I’ve worked out how to eat where the locals eat, its costing me about £1.50 for the meal and maybe 25p for masala tea which is sweet spiced and milky, I have it as a desert, cheaper for black tea though.
I splashed out on a Korean meal the other evening with a glass of wine for £8.60!
As for drinking water, I decided to limit the use of bottled water (due to the plastic use) and have purchased a very expensive Grayl filter flask. It can do 300 filter compressions before the cartridge needs changing if you use clear water. I was very nervous about using it to begin with but, its been fine, no problems at all. I use tap water, filter and decant it into a clean bottle or bladder. I can carry up to 3.5 liters this way. Im keeping a tab on the compresions but I think it will last till mid January before I have to change it.
Having a nalgene bottle which can take hot water is good too as it can double up as a hot water bottle if you wrap a T-shirt around it.
I was warned that the nights are cold and none of the cheap hotels have heating or adequate bedding so I brought my own sleeping bag too.
So far I’ve either been unable to or not allowed to do my own washing and laundry has been very variable in price, for instance in the big expensive hotels (with Dad) £2.00 and in the smaller hotels and outside about 60p per kilo.
I down loaded an app called InDrive, it was recommended by our NatureTrek guide, its a rival to Uber I think, anyway so far so good, Ive used it twice so if I need to get somewhere too far to walk, there are always more than enough cars/motorbikes responding.
So far, before I go off to explore the town, I have a Nepali Language lesson with my teacher Urmila, she comes over and we go somewhere quiet for a few hours.
Anyway by the time you read this I will be on a short 3 day trek in Kathmandu valley. I need fresh air desperately!
I’ll be with a guide so don’t worry (Linda!) I wont be wandering alone! And also my Dad is tracking me and I have a compass, hahahaha.