Being a Bachelor (18)

I HAVE A SERIOUS “WHAT WILL I EAT?” PROBLEM

As each day passes so does my worry about “what to eat” knock on my stomach and alerts my brain every morning, afternoon and night. I honestly wonder how I’ve been able to give it what it needs because if you ask me what I ate yesterday afternoon, Honestly, I can’t even remember. Wait, can you even remember yours?

Being a Bachelor means you’d have to deal a lot with what to eat, we’re not even talking about eating good food yet. You’d mostly eat to satisfy hunger and I mean 80% of the time. Not having money isn’t always the problem here, a lot of time, you honestly don’t know.

Here’s my case, returning from work every evening, I spend long hours at the junction to my house contemplating what goes into my stomach tonight. I look to the right to see restaurants selling one yeye type of rice, aboki selling different kinds of fruit and these other people selling shawarma. Nothing appetising at all.

To ease me of this stress on weekends, I buy this very big bread on Friday night hoping it will last me till Sunday or Monday when I have no choice but to go out. Surprisingly I’ve become a devourer who finishes that plus size bread on Saturday, safe to say that larger than Life bread is like small chops now.

It’s only wise not to visit those fancy restaurants every now and then and you see those Buka’s, they just mix one thing with another thing and tell you they’ve prepared Egusi. These days, they sell tasteless Red and Green rice and call it Jollof and Fried rice. They barely cook anything that makes sense and since they know most Lagosians are always on the move, they’re without choice but to eat whatever is served. How will a restaurant cook soggy rice and still have the courage to bring it out to customers? How?

What’s worse is snacking on different stuff from thinking your stomach will understand, spend 100 naira here, 200 there, 50 there knowing fully well you’re only postponing the hunger, in fact empowering the merciless feeling. I randomly ask myself, why must it be food alone that hunger answers to?

Now that everything is expensive and these restaurants aren’t even helping like that, I need to start using my head, going back to cooking which I consider a very stressful activity.

Before that time, I’m very open to other food suggestions because it seems like Rice, Semo, Indomie, coconut and Bread are the only existing meals for me.

Help a bachelor in food trouble!