By Business Daily
As a child in Budalang’i village, I recall feasting on either sweet potatoes or groundnuts with a cup of sorghum porridge for breakfast.
For fear of being served food last at dinner time, my cousins and I would surround my grandmother in her little grass-thatched kitchen as she prepared local fish (Ebidonge) obtained from River Nzoia, Spider plant vegetables (Erisaka) with Millet Ugali.
With our little tummies full of nutritious, healthy and locally grown food, we would then shift the attention to our grandfather for his classic one eyed ogre folk stories.
Life was enjoyable, save for the part that involved chasing the chicken to be slaughtered for dinner and food was delicious.
In just a couple of years, there has been a decline in the consumption of these foods and the diet has evolved from the healthy indigenous foods to highly processed foods such as soda, pizza, burgers and French fries, which are often high in saturated fats, sugars and salt and bring with them a bag full of health issues. Read more>>
