Food is anything we eat or drink on a daily basis to keep the soul and the body together in check. My definition I just combined the primary knowledge and mine own understanding. From my definition that is to say food include drinks, portage and the solid food.
About preparing my own meals, I am that one person that believe in handling what I eat myself. I have heard lot of message about food security and I feel that we need to upgrade our security level when it comes to food and drinks. Everyday of myself I have seen myself going to the kitchen to prepare both my solid and liquid foods because of the things I have seen.
Not to say I don't feel like eating out some occasion or when I go for occasion I don't eat what is served there but I don't make it a habit to eat out. In eating out too, I select the kind of things I eat out because of the kind of things I have seen people use as their ingredients.
One of the days I went to buy some food stuff with my husband at the open market. One woman who prepares Okpa came and requested for food colouring. Immediately I stylishly touched my husband to put his attention their. Immediately the woman I asked my vendor to confirm what I saw. She said that's how they come to buy colouring , even most of the okpa sold out there is not the real thing. Personally I like eating okpa so much but from that day my appetite for it died off. My mother in law came yesterday and bought some for her grand children, she added that the thing stuff is so expensive now. So we told her the story I just shared and she was surprised.
Now, I know that most times my schedule is always feed, to avoid always being in a fixed to go for outside food, I prepare my food ahead and refrigerate them. At least those food that takes longer time to prepare like soup and strew. I also prepared a food meal for the family not that I use it the way it should but at least it helps me to a great extent. Then as a woman, I take not of the meal and try myself to organize the meal for the next day day before and that has made me stay in line.
In addition to all that I do, I try my best to prepare the food for the whole day in the morning, so what I now do is to get them warm before we eat in the evening. A times when I get into the days activity I become so overwhelmed that I may find it difficult to balance up. As a mother, my kids will not want to hear that am busy especially my little daughter will not let me be until I give her something.
This habit of eating home made dish and eating natural food didn't start when I got married but as a single lady, when I was in school I can count the number of times I ate out. Despite my tight schedule I do my best to prepare my own food and that helped me stay away from lots of sickness and all that. Many depend on lots of chemical so that their food is sweet. I run from all that including tomatoes paste that most of them nothing like tomatoes in the paste.
I can go on and on in this topic, but for the purpose of this contest I will be stopping here.
My entry to the hive learners weekly contest second edition