Food Food Food… Who doesn’t love food, eating and been full. I know I do, and you, too. Well if we can afford what we want, and need to nourish our body.

So I was little my Mom is very particular on what we kids eat. Back home I believe we eat mostly organic food because then there is nothing like so many processed food. I believe everyone can testify on that one on how picky their mom were when it comes to what we eat then. 

Not so much now…because of how the society are now. We have so many working mothers, and no time to cook from the scratch well unless you have house helps (or a spouse who can cook and have the time to cook , too) that can help out with cooking and all. The society has introduced a lot of chemical in our food these days we don’t know where our foods came from and what they are made of. Kids, and  even adults getting sick because of the food they consumed. 

I always tell my sisters and my friends; to be honest no one is a Super Mom( we all learn from each other).  Because even if you raised your kids not to eat processed food guess what they will go to friends house, go to school, and parties and still eat the processed food one way or the other. Well unless you lock them in your bag and carry them around to control whatever they eat… Good luck with that. LOL 

So my kid was raised by eating Nigeria food Oh boy he loved his food. Everything I cook he eats and also he’s a boy(men got to eat), and I cooked all the time because I had the time, too. I know some parents can confirm that too especially when we have kids that eat our native foods. Don’t we all love it when they do. 

Well not until he started school and have to eat in school. I can’t make fufu and vegetable soup and ask the teacher to microwave it for him during lunch time in school. No one got that time. If we all African parent do that . Guess what we’ll have bunch of unhappy teachers, and we don’t what to be “that parent” which will also take up their lunch time ( am not shaming anyone with their parental skills), but as the saying goes “do in Rome as the Romans do” they was a reason for that saying. I will never allow my child to eat foreign food…hmmm well okay will you be teaching in that school too so you can make fufu and okra soup in school and give your kid, and make the teachers wait for them to finish eating before classes are resumes ?  I don’t think so.  Or maybe they can eat home made snack and starve till school is over. Lol.

If the answer is No then let the kid eat whatever they have in school just make sure when he or she is back from school to still maintain the native food at home. That way they don’t lose the sense of the food taste. I think mine son has lost his. Lol. That’s why I said no parent is perfect we can’t control everything, but what we can control we make sure we remain the disciplinary parent in those area.  

Time has change and with change comes people trying to make adjustment to the areas they can bend over in their life or remain with what they believe in. Boy are those native food costly, but we work right so if you can afford it more power to you and make sure is something you do constantly. Like I said ones they start school and start eating other food apart from the one at home they develop another food taste bud. Then the one they eat at home won’t taste not so good anymore. Or maybe we can have all native food-eating  people attend one school where their native food will be served. 

Trust me I use to say my child will never eat America/foreign  food until he started school then the native foods looks like child’s play to him. But what can I do. I can’t stop him/her from going to school. Same goes with maintaining a native language at home and allowing the kid to speak English. Pretty much like having the native food eating conflict. 

Remember one thing never judge people until you go through the same thing; then you can testify when you have the same experience, but if yours worked out  perfect we immature ones need to hear from you. I believe in ” if I haven’t reached a certain stage in life or gone through the same issue; I won’t know how well it is until I have the same experience and get the test of how it feels.”

I have friends that their kids have gone through the stage my kid is going through. I will call them, and ask certain questions( when it comes to school, activities, etc) to get some guidance. Especially been outside the country; they are a lot we have to learn from people around us or we have to go through it to learn our own lesson, and use the skill on the  next kid to avoid any mistake. We do that not because we have no clue on what we’re doing, but  because some of our parents are not born outside the country and never experienced what we’re going through. Rather we learn from people from same culture as us.

One thing I have always maintained with my kid is always drink water no matter what drink they serve you…request for water. I guess it can flush that sugary drink you just had. Then pee it out later. Prevention is better then cure. 

I remember in school every birthday in school parents bring cake and drinks to school for the kiddo to share with his/her classmate, but in 2014 former First lady banned a lot of processed food in school to control child illness, marketing of foods, and weight management in school kids. 

Read article below for more information. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/first-lady-proposes-ban-junk-food-marketing-schools-n38201.

Is quiet a journey to be a parent taking/caring for another human being till they are old enough to be on their own. We pray to God to give we wisdom to do so. 

Thanks for reading. Enjoy your Day.  Always remember to smile to your kids. They always know the good and the don’t you deal smile/look ( when in public and you don’t what to lose it) . Lol . 

Gracias …Thank you.