Earn # Spend # Give

Are you able to spend every penny wisely?

• Have you been earning so little and finding it difficult to manage your resources?

• Have you found a way around your spending, making your budget as frugal as possible to meet your needs?

• Have you been generous with the little you have to help lift others out of need?

Today we will be looking at how to prepare a delicious lunch or dinner meal with the least possible budget.
Remember that the aim is to prepare nutritious meals for the most people with the least possible budget.
So far, we have been able to dive into the various ways we can get nutritious staples and vegetables to make meals that are budget-friendly. A frugal means that can assist one to both maximize their wages.

And another goal of the community is to share these meals with our friends to get their feedback about whether they were tasty enough. It is one thing to manage your budget and cook a particular meal, yet it is another thing for the meal to be tasty enough for people to be able to find it palatable at least.

Since our breakfast was some light meals, here is a combination of what a lunch can be like.

You can choose to have rice or a vegetable source.

Or a corn flour meal and vegetable source.

Out of these two food combinations, any can be chosen as lunch or dinner. Rice is light enough for dinner if you don’t want heavy food at night that can cause bloating, especially when eating almost immediately before bedtime. But in the event that you have your dinner early enough, the corn meal can be taken too.

I prefer a vegetable source as the soup to go with either of these because of how nutritious vegetables are, and comparing the price to preparing stew, this is much cheaper.

Recently, there has been a hike in the price of tomatoes, and it is so bad that 5–10 pieces of tomatoes were sold for 500 naira. In order to purchase enough tomatoes that can be enough for stew (the pure tomato soup used for eating rice), you will be spending close to 7,000 naira for that alone. At least 5,000 naira worth of tomatoes would be the least needed to make soup for a family.

These are sold for 500 naira each,what quantity of these do you think will be enough for your meals?. This is why I opted for vegetables soups instead 

To make vegetables soup, you will need these ingredients and the price ranges of what I bought. Take notes on the ingredients and local condiments too.

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I had another friend of mine join me in the kitchen to prepare some rice and vegetables. We had lunch together, and some of my neighbors and family also joined us for a meal.

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As a mother with children, she also took some home for her two kids.

Corn flour meal and vegetable soup

To prepare a corn flour meal, all you need to do is purchase some corn and clean it of stones and dirt. If you have it milled and ground, then you have the flour ready here, like mine.

The vegetable soup for your corn meal is the same as above.
1.6 kg of corn is enough to prepare the corn flour meal for a family of 5.
I have bought and blended the said amount of corn flour above and will be having a corn meal and vegetable source this afternoon. I will be updating this post with those pictures when I am done with them. I haven’t had the time to prepare the corn flour meal, but since I will be having that for lunch later, you will get to see my plate right here.

An alternative to your corn flour preparation If you are feeling lazy to prepare your corn flour, you can purchase 1kg of semovita, which will amount to the same price in the end. Semovita is sold for 1500 naira, that’s a dollar, while corn is sold for 1200 naira, which you will need some amount to have blended.

The June mission has been a roller coaster of cooking and dining with friends. Everyone that came around got to hear about hives since I wanted them to know the reasons behind this mission. Maybe they can apply some of the rules here to their lives and find it helpful as well. It was fun to have friends come around to learn and equally have something to fill their belly with ☺️😄

On different occasions, I was able to prepare a list of the following meals:

• Tom Brown and Flower Snack (Puff-Puff)

• Pancake and Cabbage Source

• Rice and Vegetable Source

• Corn flour and vegetable sources

For your corn flour meal, although a vegetable soup is rich in terms of nutrients, there are equally other soups that we can prepare to eat our swallow meal with. We have okro, jute mallow, pumpkins, sesame seeds, white seed melon, and several other alternative leaves or ingredients you can use for your soup.
And also instead of a cornflour you can chose to purchase and blend wheat instead.

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