After a church ceremony, plenty of food, music, and dancing are offered to members of the entire village.
Staple foods include plantains, maize, rice, breadfruit, and peas. Vegetables include onions, green peppers, callaloo (a green, leafy plant similar to spinach), tomatoes, and carrots. Chicken, fish, mutton, goat, pork, and beef are the most popular meats. Grenadians also like manicou (a type of opossum) and iguana. The variety of available seafood includes reef fish (barracuda and parrot fish), shark, snapper, sea turtle, tuna, lobster, and lambi (conch), as well as canned sardines and salmon. Many staple items are imported, including powdered milk, canned vegetables and meats, salt pork and salt fish, rice, cheese, coffee, and tea.
Locally grown fruits include bananas, mangoes, grapefruit, coconuts, guavas, and papayas. Guavas are eaten fresh, stewed, as a jelly, or as guava cheese. A typical daily meal includes rice and chickpeas or pigeon peas, a vegetable and stewed meat. Soups, souses (sauces made from pigs' feet), fish broth, barbecues, and roasted foods are popular. Grenadians use generous amounts of hot pepper sauce, curries, and spices in their cooking. The national dish is called the "oil down,"" a stew of callaloo, breadfruit, meat or salt fish, and coconut oil. People also like roti (curried meat and vegetables wrapped in a flat bread) and dahl (curried chickpeas).
Grenadians have a passion for cricket and closely follow the progress of local and regional teams, especially the West Indies team "which sometimes includes a player from Grenada "when it is playing a test match against another country. Each town has cricket and football (soccer) teams, and boys begin playing at an early age. Basketball is becoming popular in urban areas. Girls play netball and watch other sports; both boys and girls participate in athletics.
Men and boys enjoy fishing, diving, and sailing.