Overall, the Foodo are better off financially than some of the other groups in Benin. A Foodo meal typically includes pounded yams in a sauce, millet or corn porridge, dried fish, and sometimes beef, chicken, or goat. Hot peppers are usually added to the sauces, which consist of peanuts, green leaves, okra, and seeds. Although their nutrition level could be improved, most of the Foodo have adequate food and are not malnourished. The Foodo live in clustered villages.
Village chiefs provide counsel and law for the people.
If a villager does not like the chief's decisions, he can go to the police. The villagers live in houses made of mud-brick and thatch, or cement blocks. Most of their homes are rectangular and are built to form a compound. During the rainy season, some of the mud houses collapse. Termites may also destroy the thatched roofs.