Why do Nigerians seem to carry a lot of weight on their stomach? Most Nigerian meals are made up of carbs: garri, white rice, fufu/akpu (made from cassava)
The average Nigerian takes swallow and soup, rice and stew for breakfast and sees it as normal. Cereal, toast, eggs is definitely not the usual meal.
Most of our food combo’s are heavy. Take for instance bread and beans, Rice beans and plantain; Plantain and beans on its own is so filling but our country people add rice to it.
The quantity we take up at a time tells so much on our midsection.
An average Nigerian meal speaks volumes on a plate. “Less is more” has got nothing on us when it comes to the quantity
of food we consume at a sitting. We have a large appetite. WE CONSUME!! “mouth dey chop”.
On the average, we eat lunch by 2/3pm other than the normal 12pm and most of us take late dinners.
Let’s not even get started on all the mede mede’s we see when the usual holdup takes place (Gala, ice-cream, shrimps, chipsy)
It is well ooo.
Given the stress we have to go through every day, we need all the energy we can get.
NAIJA I HAIL OO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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