My Cheapest and Most Expensive Food

Personally I enjoy foods that are easy to cook because they save me time and money. Looking at cost effectiveness and limited time consumption, the cheapest food for me in this trialing economy is spaghetti. The comforting simplicity of preparing a pot of spaghetti has made this dish my favorite.

While I call it the cheapest because with just a thousand naira at most, I can prepare spaghetti.

Little ingredients needed to achieve this are:

A pack of spaghetti
Groundnut oil
Crayfish
Tomato
Maggi
Scent leave
Pepper and salt.

When some of these ingredients are already available at home, I can end up with a cheap spaghetti with 800 naira without stress.
With just the above listed ingredients, a quick spaghetti is fixed for an hungry stomach without bothering my purse.

Also, it is one food that can be prepared without going to the market to buy the items needed, without just that token everything needed can be purchased at home. Spaghetti is a very easy pasta to see around and also budget friendly and with this in mind, it has become my companion whenever I have limited resources.

Sundays are days I call lazy Sundays for myself, to complement my afternoon and enjoy that spirit of Sunday, the easiest and my comfortable option goes to Spaghetti.

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For the most expensive food, it is surely Nsala food. I love this soup so much because it is one soup that from the beginning till the finish I don't lack what to bite and chew. Which means it contains lots and variety of spices and meat. Every Nigerian knows what Nsala soup means, it comes with its unique flavor.

This is seriously food that grace my table once in a while because of what it takes to make the preparation. There is obviously no balance between the time I eat the two foods because if I want to say, the spaghetti will weigh more than the Nsala. But one good thing about the two is the taste I get from them and the satisfaction I derive from eating them anytime I do. Anyone that knows me knows how much I love spaghetti, be it jollof or stew Spa.

While the spaghetti comes in handy, the Nsala soup is one I prepare whenever I want to give myself a special treat, whenever I eat this soup, gives me that awareness that life is once and should be enjoyed. Apart from eating simple food all the time, trying something different once in a while can give us that feeling that we should single out a moment to tell ourselves that we deserve to treat ourselves with delightful food.

What is required for me to eat this expensive meal is if I visit a restaurant or in a ceremony. The resources needed for me to prepare an expensive Nsala soup for a family is exorbitant which makes it a very rare food for us unless we just want to go by what we have and prepare a simple and budget-friendly Nsala. For that quality Nsala soup, it comes properly on special occasions or eating in a restaurant.