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.



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This one is what I call "low budget student spaghetti" 😅 it's usually the type I cook when I'm very broke and can't buy meat, but in my case I don't use scent leaf, I wonder how that one will taste in spaghetti 🤔

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Hahahah, that's the right name for it o
I can't prefer cooking it that way than going to a buy it from this food vendors.

For the scent leave, is not the one used in cooking porridge yam, there is another type here that can also be called sent leave or curry leave. Is more popular in Akwa Ibom, it scents so nice like curry.

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Oh, I think I know the one you're talking about, we usually call it curry leaves over here. I prefer to just use the normal curry powder if I want that curry taste in spaghetti

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Hahaha
The Spaghetti is quite funny. Well, I’ve eaten those before when I was at the university
Omo sapa nah bastard

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Hahahahahaha. My dear, once Sapa holds, no one can contend with it o. The love I have for spag make me go for that whenever I crave for it and I don't have enough fund.

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Spaghettiiiiii very easy to cook you are right.
What tribe eats nsala soup and how does it look
I'm interested.
This is my first time hearing about it.

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Nsala is Nigerian food, mostly prepared by igbos as a native soup. It's English name is White soup. It also prepared by some other tribes in Nigeria but the preparation methods differs to an extent.

Because it mostly prepared with either yam or achi seed and it is prepared without adding red oil, the color is either white or milky. But it's very delicious and taste nice because of the uziza leave that is added to it during preparation.

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Macaroni is really good, I haven't tried it with peanut oil yet, it seems to be delicious, it's the second post I've seen commenting on the soup, I'm really curious about trying it someday

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Awwn, it's a nice food actually. The Macaroni will have here is different from spaghetti. I don't know if it's same thing there but I know you gonna enjoy it if you try it out.

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I also don't like stress, so spaghetti is a very easy food to cook. Whether I'm broke or not, I always cook it

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