Greetings!
Food is one of the essentials of life. And I don't think there's anyone who can do without food as it helps to nourish the body.
Although, we've seen people fasting for days, but even at that, they break their fast with food and this is to tell us the importance of food to our body.
So, food is not something we can just play with or perhaps handle anyhow. In handling our food or foodstuff, we must be very careful so as to maintain our food safety.
When talking about food safety, to me it's to do with our cleanliness and hygiene when handling or trying to prepare what we are to eat, which is our food.
Before I proceed on this particular discussion, we should also note that food is always ingested, which means, when we eat it, we digest it. So, for this reason we must be hygienic in preparing what we are to put in our mouth and digest into our stomachs, be it raw or cooked.
Having said so much about food and hygiene, I would like to share with us how I maintain my food safety with us.
One thing I do to maintain my food safety while preparing it is cleanliness and this I do right from the time of harvesting the food product in my compound or buying it at the market place.
I used to be extraordinarily careful while plucking my peppers in the compound and if I were to buy it at the market, I would look at the best place where cleanliness is the priority of the seller before I could buy my foodstuffs.
Also before cooking my food, one thing I do is to wash every of the kitchen utensils in my kitchen and as if this is not enough, I would always wash my hands and the foodstuffs two to three times before cooking them.
Atimes, I even parboil some of these foodstuffs before cooking them so as to maintain my proper food security. Also, if it's fruit, one thing I like to do is to wash and wash over and again so so to remove the dirt in them and make them clean. And for this reason, I find it difficult to eat anything food or fruit even to drink water outside my home as not all what's called pure water are truly pure. So, i also have a way of curing my water with the prescribed chemicals so as to cook with, drink and even wash my foodstuffs.
Furthermore, i used to go to my kitchen, a place where my food is being prepared so clean with my cooking apron on and with my sparkling gloves in my hands and my cap on. All these are to maintain a hygienic way of my cooking life.
In addition, the way i structured my kitchen is very good that you would not even find my refuse bin so close to where the cooking is taking place so as to avoid contamination as well.
After this and when it's time to prepare my food, I make sure that I wash my hands very well and also clean every surface in my kitchen before and during my cooking activities so as to avoid eating poisonous or contaminated food.
Even after I finish cooking, I still make sure I clean everything so as to make sure everything is clean, which would always help me to fight all those bacterials and viruses in my kitchen which if not handled very well contaminate our foodstuffs.
In conclusion, I'm always on the alert every time to maintain my cleanliness so as to maintain my food safety and avoid diseases and infirmities which could have happened due to uncleanliness.
Thanks for reading.
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