For one who gets filled easily and with just anything, this post will have to take a more different turn from what others are sharing about their experiences with cheap and expensive foods. When they start calling out "Foodies" to a place, I won't be called but it doesn't mean I don't eat or eat a lot sometimes. The thing is, my a lot of food is very small for someone else so I want to believe you understand now.
And the thing with cheap and expensive foods, I must say it is very subjective. What seem very cheap for me isn't for another and same for what seem expensive to me.
But one main thing that influences these options is... Availability of the money to access them.
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I believe if I had grew up in a more wealthier family, I'd have had a more expensive food as the most cheapest meal I've ever had or if I had grew up in a poor family, I'd have tagged a cheap meal very expensive... That is a reasonable logic to things like this so I'll share my own kind of cheap and expensive foods considering that I came from a family in between both status hehe.
When I'm asked what the cheapest food I've eaten is, I'm taken back to when I live alone at school. The time I had to manage the allowances I get and also manage to get what I need for my studies. Because of that, I learned to eat whatever is available but surprisingly as I think back to those times, there was no meal I could consider the cheapest but they were not expensive either.
Meals like noodles with no egg or bread and pap or akara (beans cake), these ones seem cheap and I wanted to add cassava flakes and groundnut but I remember I've never had it too empty, it's always with milk, chocolate and sometimes with biscuits too 😅 I don't drink anyhow kind of cassava flakes, it's always deliciously prepared.
So if I'll choose a cheap meal I've ever had, it's just bread.
Mind you, this was before now that bread is gold. Back then, I could get bread as cheap as 50 naira and I will have my fill even though I know I'm just making myself believe that I'm filled lol. When I say bread is the cheapest I've had, I mean, only bread and nothing else to go with it.
That day, I had to manage 200 naira I had on me to eat, take a vehicle somewhere and also eat something at night. It's still a marvel how I got to manage that amount and didn't die of hunger 😂 such a thing only happened once as I learnt to manage even the bigger amount of money I have to avoid such to happen again.
If I'm asked about the most expensive food I've eaten, I'm taken back to the time I was obsessed with anything meaty.
It's still no surprise I love Sharwama especially the ones with more meat on my request 😅 I love meat to the extent that I don't eat much of my meals just to focus on the meat I was served. When I got to live alone, I thought it was my chance to eat as much meat as I wanted and I succeeded, that was what led me to the day I had the most expensive meal.
Meals like a food bouquet of different kinds of meal, a whole chicken in one soup and I finished it in a day or eating out in an expensive restaurant... All that are expensive food experiences I've had.
But if I'll choose an expensive meal I've ever had, it's suya (roasted meat).
I know you must be thinking this one isn't so expensive compared to what I've mentioned above but guess what! I got tired of suya meat after that day, why? I bought way too much of it and ate it all alone in my room with no break. It was very expensive if I had thought about my left amount in my account but I refused to think too much just so I could have a good fill of my so loved meat.
Even the place I bought the suya meat wasn't a cheap spot, only the rich people go there but I heard of how tasty and delicious it was so I thought if I was going to spend the money, why not I spend it very well? 😂
I ended up buying the amount of suya meat that more than five persons will eat and get a good fill for myself alone. No need to tell what happened after but till today, I'm still glad I made that expensive decision.
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