Living lazy or Easy way out

Growing up as a child is a phase where you get to learn so many things and make them stick because the brain is open and free to learn and as kids, they learn everything they see in an instant, be it behaviour or character, a skill or even words. But for me growing up was fun too but what I failed to learn from my parents was cooking skills.😏

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I won’t say I was spoilt or pampered because it doesn’t feel that way it wasn’t my fault because I attended a boarding school and didn’t get the chance to learn how to cook and when I get home for the holidays, the cooking is always taken care of by my mum and I didn’t even bother or care to learn how to do it because I feel she will always be there to do it so there will be no need for me to do it.🙄

Entering the Phase

Entering into teenage phase, it started to become a problem for me, especially when I’m home alone and there was nothing to eat except foodstuffs to make food, I would just be there feeling hopeless and not know where to start and do the cooking instead I will just look for some change and go get some snacks to quench the hunger and it kept on like that and it wasn’t a bother to me because I feel as long as there’s cash I can always sort myself out.🤤🍫🍿

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It became a habit for me of buying food instead of cooking, even when I got into college, I would rather buy the foodstuffs for my roommate and let him do the cooking even when he offered to teach me was so lazy and unwilling to learn and I would nag and argue why he was so keen on making me learn how to cook when I provide everything he needs for it so there was no point in me doing the cooking.😕😑

Breaking out of the phase

After becoming useless in the aspect of cooking because I believed a man doesn’t need to learn how to cook as long as he has a female companion around, it later dawned on me that it was important when a certain event took place and I had no choice to get off my high horse because at the moment everything depended on me at that moment in time.😲😵

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It happened that I got home for the holidays as usual to visit my mum and she became so ill suddenly that she couldn’t prepare anything and it was just me and her alone in the house, and she needed food to take her drugs.😰 Now I became in a state of turmoil and don’t know where to start and suddenly a thought came to me “YouTube” and “Google” I quickly search for the easiest food to cook within minutes and what I saw was yam porridge and quickly I went to YouTube to check for the methods and ingredients and luckily they were all available.

So now I was in the kitchen battling with the cutting and preparations following every step and making sure I don’t do over and too little and also taking instructions from my ill mum because I had no choice and to make sure I am doing the right thing and guess what, the food came out well and of course, it would because it was as if my life was on the line. 😂

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So what have been ignoring to do for years, I got to do it in one day and for some reason, because yam porridge was my first hand made food, I am very good at making it now with any method of my choice and it will come out delicious and for other food, well let’s just say I’m still average on them.😋