The Modern food Irony...

 Before now having bread in my space was almost a ritual, until I started to look like bread this year. I had to cut down on bread consumption and today it's over 4 months and I haven't bought the first loaf of bread for myself although I still eat bread but only from another's loaf that way I don't over eat it because it's not mine this also happens once in a while as I am mostly in my space.

A typical Modern food.

 I am considering stopping bread consumption completely, not just because of the weight this time but because as a trained Microbiologist the shelf life of bread these days is disturbing. When I used to buy bread I noticed my favourite bread then could stay fresh for almost 2wks without refrigerating 🤯. It's a concern, the shelf life of bread is becoming too long especially for the now infamous Carton bread. Next on my stop list is cake, and so help me God because my relationship with cake is pure toxic.

Another concern is retail fufu, adding that it is now considered a normal thing to process it with bleach or detergent. The day I heard it, I was shocked and even double shocked when almost everyone there was shocked that I was shocked... They acted as though I was surprised that salt is use in cooking. 

I will rather buy oranges to apples, I love apples but will rarely buy for myself, we don't grown apples in commercial quantity in Nigeria so imagine the preservatives used on the imported ones we see at our markets to keep it that fresh. Oranges are even more nutritious, apples are just more aesthetically pleasing 😒. Same way I will rather buy our local ugly looking lemons to the beautiful foreign yellow ones and will never use a sachet spice when I can access the fresh ones (ginger, garlic, nutmeg). There are so many examples but we are in an age of short attention span so....

It is really an irony with our food system, food is more accessible and available now yet we have a food problem more that ever. Adding to the heavily corrupt and non existent Nigeria food regulatory system and you wonder why the average Nigerian is blindly religious, apparently 'na God hand we dey'. As a Nigerian we live by miracle.

We are paying with our lives for something that is supposed to extend our lives... Crazy. #fast food and long lasting food.

So Thel me your thoughts... Is your food worth dying for?