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I want to wish all my esteemed readers a happy Sunday and a great week ahead. The weekend is over and it is time to start preparing for the new week ahead. It is time to look back, reflect on the past couple of weeks and find workable solutions to the setbacks and challenges that you've encountered while celebrating your little wins. For some of us, we wish the weekend can extend for some hours so that we can have more time to rest but sadly life isn't programmed that way. Well, let's move away from all of that motivational speech. Let's delve into the main topic of today.
I was running out of some food items in the house so I went to the market to restock. Food is a necessity in the house and no matter how much you spend on stocking your kitchen you'd need to restock after at least two weeks or less depending on the rate at which you consume food in your home. In my case, the kids are on holidays and they eat pretty well - I literally spend the whole the day in the kitchen making food for them. Their routine is to sleep, eat, play and repeat.
I had my first stop in the market at the egg seller's shop where I bought half of a crate. The eggs were big and worth the price. The crate of thirty eggs was said to be selling for NGN5700- NGN6000 depending on the size. I opted for the NGN6000 size and requested for half of it, that is, 15 eggs. Next, I moved to the fish seller spot just beside the egg shop. The fish seller was quite busy so I had to patiently wait for my turn. When it got to my turn, I asked for the prices of the different types of fish they have which ranges from herrings (shawa), mackerel (titus), panla, horse mackerel (kote) etc. I chose one big kote that cost NGN4000 but I was able to negotiate for NGN3500.
As I was stepping away from the fish vendor I spotted a man that displayed apples (green 🍏 and red 🍎) and tangerines on a wheel barrow. So, I approached him and bought about 5 of the green ones at NGN250 each. I prefer the green apples to the red ones especially the taste. Apart from that the red apples is more expensive.
Next, I stopped at the Onion spot where they are also displayed on the wheelbarrow. These people that sell on wheelbarrows don't have a stall so they push their goods around in the market using the wheelbarrow. The onions are in different sizes from small to meduim to large to extra large. Therefore, the size determines the price. The size I selected cost 12 pieces for NGN1200.
Moving forward, I needed some scotch bonnet, tomatoes and red bell pepper for the soup I'm going to make for the week. I located a place in the market where their scotch bonnet looks fresh, red and neat. The peppers were displayed in wooden baskets alongside with okra too. I bought the scotch bonnet and red bell pepper which cost about NGN1000 altogether and bought some Okra as well.
Still buying the things I need for the soup I want to prepare I bought some vegetables that was thinly cut by the seller. This process of cutting vegetables into desired sizes by these vendors make it easy for me to cook as I will skip that step.
Bear in mind that I didn't buy tomatoes when I bought the scotch bonnet and red bell pepper, so I spotted a fresh red set of tomatoes displayed across the road inside the market. I went closer to him to buy some. I also bought some sweet potatoes from the same vendor.
Then I moved to where i needed some level of negotiation skills to be able to get a good deal when I was buying some tubers of yam. Yam seems to be one of the food items that the price is fast rising apart from tomatoes, fish and some fruits. After some back-and-forth negotiation I was able to get five tubers of meduim sized tubers of yam for NGN5000.
These are the items that I bought from the market that I displayed on the floor of my kitchen when I got back home.
