For example, you can get Cheerios and Oreo cookies in Maseru. Things like shoe laces, jam, transistor radios, and lesser things can be found in the district capitals. In the village stores you may find only canned meat, sugar, flour, candles, bread, pop, etc. The local diet is heavily carbohydrates. A meal may sometimes include bread, rice, and potatoes.
Papa is boiled corn meal, like very stiff grits.
A lot of households have peach trees, but they aren't really marketed. Eggs and chicken are also big. Decent wine and beer is available in of the district capitals and Maseru. Housewares are widely available and everything is metric. For additional information about what you may want to bring, or not bring, see Eric Thomson's letter of December 14, 2000.