I noticed that my two older kids stopped carrying lunch box to school on Fridays, when I asked them why, they told me that it wasn’t necessary since they dismiss by 12 noon and I believed them.
One day I was relaxing on the couch when my second daughter came to me and started a conversation.
Second daughter: Mummy, please change the food you use to pack in our lunch box, I don’t like it.
Me: What is wrong with the food?
Second daughter: Nothing is wrong with it, it’s just that it’s village food😲
Me: What is wrong with village food? Don’t you like it?
Second daughter: I’m the only one that brings village food to school in our class and anytime I bring out my lunch box, everybody will start laughing at me 😲😲😲
I started thinking for a smart idea 🤔🤔🤔
Me: Last academic session in your school, who took the first position in your class?
Second daughter: Me
Me: Last two academic sessions, who took first position in your class?
Second daughter: Me
Me: This academic session, who will take first position in your class?
Second daughter: Me
Me: How sure are you that you will take first position this session, what is someone else takes the position?
Second daughter: I’m very sure that I will take the first position, I’m the one who answers all the questions in class, my classmates don’t usually know the answer 😲
Me: Why don’t your classmates know the answer? Is it not the same teacher, same class, same books and same head that all of you have? Why do you always know the answer?
Daughter: Thought for a while 🤔 and said, I don’t know what their problem is, they are always reading their book, they don’t play like me, yet they still won’t know the answer when teacher asks question🤷
Me: Let me tell you the reason. They eat English food and you eat correct Igbo food. Their English food only deposit fat under their skin making them plumpy and fresh but doesn’t add any nutrient to their brain. The Igbo food you eat doesn’t deposit fat under your skin, that’s why you’re not plumpy like them, it sends all the nutrients to your brain, that’s why you’re always taking the first position.
Daughter: Wow! Now I know!
My first daughter who was listening to the conversation started laughing 😲
First daughter: Mummy! Mummy! Chai 😁😁
Me: Do you think I’m joking? Don’t you come first in your class too? So you think that I don’t know what I’m doing by giving you correct Nsukka delicacies?🤷
First daughter: Are you really serious?
Me: Yes naw, it’s because your brain is well nourished. God created every brain to be intelligent, you’re the one who will nourish your brain with real food, not oyibo foods.
They both kept quiet 🤐
Me: When you go to school tomorrow, bring out your lunch box boldly, if they start laughing at you, laugh harder and louder. Tell them that it’s those English food they are eating that is making them not to understand anything in class. Laugh very well, use that same style they use when bullying you 😏🥴😏
They both agreed that my plan is perfect 😁😁
Sense won’t k!ll me ni 😏😁😁😁
It’s been long and I haven’t heard any complain or anyone rejecting lunch box.
Any food I cook, except swallow, that’s what you’re carrying to school straight 🤷
Whether it’s Okpa, echicha, Igbangwu (Itipe), Otipi, Ayaraya ji, Egwusi stew, etc. 🤷
The taste increases when I sit on the floor and eat with my hands😋😋😋
Nsukka people get food jare 😋😋😋😋
Make una clap for our Ancestors jooo 👏👏👏
Their level of nutritional intelligence is pro max
#food #foodie #foodlover
-Copied from Greeny.
Me: The Mum did a great Job, It’s always good to teach our kids to place value on whatever is available per time as there is time for everything.
However the fact is that our local delicacies are 100% ORGANIC and very nutritious and good for brain development when compared to the chemicaly manufactured ones with some side effects.
Nsukka de jenu.
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