For one who gets filled easily and with just anything, this post will have to take a more different turn from what others are sharing about their experiences with cheap and expensive foods. When they start calling out "Foodies" to a place, I won't be called but it doesn't mean I don't eat or eat a lot sometimes. The thing is, my a lot of food is very small for someone else so I want to believe you understand now.
And the thing with cheap and expensive foods, I must say it is very subjective. What seem very cheap for me isn't for another and same for what seem expensive to me.
But one main thing that influences these options is... Availability of the money to access them.
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I believe if I had grew up in a more wealthier family, I'd have had a more expensive food as the most cheapest meal I've ever had or if I had grew up in a poor family, I'd have tagged a cheap meal very expensive... That is a reasonable logic to things like this so I'll share my own kind of cheap and expensive foods considering that I came from a family in between both status hehe.
When I'm asked what the cheapest food I've eaten is, I'm taken back to when I live alone at school. The time I had to manage the allowances I get and also manage to get what I need for my studies. Because of that, I learned to eat whatever is available but surprisingly as I think back to those times, there was no meal I could consider the cheapest but they were not expensive either.
Meals like noodles with no egg or bread and pap or akara (beans cake), these ones seem cheap and I wanted to add cassava flakes and groundnut but I remember I've never had it too empty, it's always with milk, chocolate and sometimes with biscuits too 😅 I don't drink anyhow kind of cassava flakes, it's always deliciously prepared.
So if I'll choose a cheap meal I've ever had, it's just bread.
Mind you, this was before now that bread is gold. Back then, I could get bread as cheap as 50 naira and I will have my fill even though I know I'm just making myself believe that I'm filled lol. When I say bread is the cheapest I've had, I mean, only bread and nothing else to go with it.
That day, I had to manage 200 naira I had on me to eat, take a vehicle somewhere and also eat something at night. It's still a marvel how I got to manage that amount and didn't die of hunger 😂 such a thing only happened once as I learnt to manage even the bigger amount of money I have to avoid such to happen again.
If I'm asked about the most expensive food I've eaten, I'm taken back to the time I was obsessed with anything meaty.
It's still no surprise I love Sharwama especially the ones with more meat on my request 😅 I love meat to the extent that I don't eat much of my meals just to focus on the meat I was served. When I got to live alone, I thought it was my chance to eat as much meat as I wanted and I succeeded, that was what led me to the day I had the most expensive meal.
Meals like a food bouquet of different kinds of meal, a whole chicken in one soup and I finished it in a day or eating out in an expensive restaurant... All that are expensive food experiences I've had.
But if I'll choose an expensive meal I've ever had, it's suya (roasted meat).
I know you must be thinking this one isn't so expensive compared to what I've mentioned above but guess what! I got tired of suya meat after that day, why? I bought way too much of it and ate it all alone in my room with no break. It was very expensive if I had thought about my left amount in my account but I refused to think too much just so I could have a good fill of my so loved meat.
Even the place I bought the suya meat wasn't a cheap spot, only the rich people go there but I heard of how tasty and delicious it was so I thought if I was going to spend the money, why not I spend it very well? 😂
I ended up buying the amount of suya meat that more than five persons will eat and get a good fill for myself alone. No need to tell what happened after but till today, I'm still glad I made that expensive decision.
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Anything feels best when you are hungry. More food, more calories. Beautiful piece on food and your experience in life. #bloom
Haha that's true, anything goes! 😅
Glad you find it beautiful sis.
Very beautiful indeed. Keep up the excellent work.
And these people that eat little of cooked food can so major of snacks eeeh...I can relate with what you said...I have friends that say they don't eat much but can feast on meat as if there is no tomorrow
Don't worry, the fat is storing up for an appointed time
Haha I'm one of them o 😅
Hopefully I'm among those that the fat is storing up for 👀
This made me remember the amount of suya I bought while in camp all because I was told it was the best appetiser the aboki man sold. I bought and couldn't finish it, I had to share with my hostel mates even though I felt sad buying such an amount. Hehehe.
The rich ones are enjoying oo because even the expensive food we thought they eat are what they term as cheap food while the average or poor ones term their cheap food as expensive. In all, eating food is all that matters. Whether cheap or expensive food, everything goes down to the oesophagus 🤣🤣
Haha I refused to share mine, I just kept eating like my life depended on it 😂
Hmm so you don't like food that much, that's why you are as fat as I am😊😊😊
Haha very fat o 😂
Lolz
Suya is indeed very delicious oo but it's an expensive now. If you want to enjoy it, you will find out that a sum has left your purse.
Shawarma too, this post reminded me of a chit chat I had with a friend few weeks back who expressed how she thought shawarma is sold at the rate of 500 naira only to get shocked when I told her the price of one.
Haha Sharwama 500 naira? Impossible except it's only the wrap she's buying 😂
Hahahahahah. My dear, when she said it I couldn't laugh, I had to just tell her the price range and she shouted in shock. LOL.
I can totally relate to the suya part. Sometimes I will buy up to 12k suya and I thought I was being extravagant until I saw a man order for 35k suya. My wow was wowed.
Guess we all want to have a good fill of our suya. My kids like suya a lot and it's better I buy as much as I can so I can enjoy you well.
Ahhh 35k suya for who? 🤣 That just wowed my wow too.
We are many that love this suya o 😁
Hahaha school go fit make you manage like say you be Manager
You na big aunty na why you go drink casava flakes without milk, I've heard of people that drank gari and salt, their own sakpa worst
Lol nor be small Sapa be that one o 😅
I think everyone has had at least once in their life that desire to eat a snack that they really wanted and ended up feeling sick, but food is something very good, it brings us a feeling of relief and less stress.
It sure does, thanks for stopping by
Is this not what we are saying?
It's just like a white man crying for being poor, meanwhile he has a car and a house and.... generator is ON 24/7 in the house.
Make everybody go rest.
Camouflaging everywhere 😂😂😂😂
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