Hello friends and community 🥰🌹.

When it comes to food 🥘 its always very hard to have a favorite , because as long as one is a very good cook that can make magics with food in the kitchen, it becomes very hard for that person to say , oh, this is my favorite food.

But as people with divas culture and tradition, we certainly are born and brought up with different kinds of foods where we make and choose what we like or have a choice during dinner , festivities 🥳 and get together. This indeed made food one thing that people will always want to try any where they go to for the purpose of taste 👅.

My country Nigeria really do have lots of native foods due to how we have many ethnic groups, so apart from my native foods, I have also tried other ethnics food just to know how it taste. The Yoruba Ewadu soup with stirred yam 🍠 flour, the Hausa’s Tuwo Shinkafa made of stirred rice with soup made with melon . And my native land stirred Cassava with bitter leave soup. One traditional culture food that must not be left out in any traditional occasion.

The Good Old Days:

But growing up as a person I have loved boiled white rice 🍚 with fresh tomatoes 🍅 sauce and chicken 🍗, then some fried plantains as my favorite meal. This is a meal I enjoy and can eat it as three square meal in a day. So traditional food was not really my thing. And as spinster then, my weekend was always well planned after a week of 8:00 - 5:00 weekly job. Weekends are for shopping 🛍, grocery and cooking for the upcoming week. So I will always make a big pot stew that will last me a whole week to ease off after work stress. All I just need to do is to always boil a fresh rice and fry some plantains.

My breakfast can just be a bowl 🥣 of oatmeal with lots of milk or cup of tea with few slices of bread. Lunch must be packed unless I have eat out office lunch with colleagues. So for many years, I was enjoying my rice meal which is why am not blaming my younger daughter @chelkoby who took over from me. Keep her happy by making rice 🍚 and chicken 🍗 all week for her. Haha 😀.

Why Sweet Potatoes, Beans And Dry Fish Now?

We don’t know what we are eating unless we get to check it out to know exactly what we are getting from every meal 🥘 we consume. And secondly, as we begin to age in life as adults who gradually drifts into old age, we definitely begin to have concerns for the kind of food that will be healthy for us. So this is why I want all out to check on various kinds of food for aging and good health, and found out how important sweet potatoes 🍠 that has natural sugar with low carbs , despite being a root dense tuber is one healthy food that helps with muscles 💪 d we while nourishing our skin.

And beans a high protein food is what we need at all times to stay low on carbs since its almost like a fiber food but from the legumes. Its naturally sweet that you don’t need much ingredients or spices for making it a well tasteful food. And because it does not contain carbs, it keeps your body steadily light at all times. I love this combination of foods because they are so delicious once paired together even without much ingredients.

With beans as my main meal 🥘, I do not need much of protein like dairy products, every now and then chicken 🍗, beef 🥩 or even egg. Beans can cover for this substitutes and even healthier since it contains no fat additions but a very healthy food for the elderly and even the young ones. All I need is just some dry fish 🐟 to add yo this delicious healthy meal 🥘 that you will love to try.

However, beans can also be paired with rice if you don’t like to enjoy it with potatoes 🥔. Fry your plantains and add it to beans as side , and you are good to go. People also said they happy to enjoy beans and spaghetti 🍝, so you can see how versatile beans is in our kitchen. Its a food you can pair with any thing. I hope you do try sweet potatoes 🍠 beans porridge 🥣 and taste it for your self.

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