The cost of education is high and on the increase. Students are faced with numerous expenses at school such as school fees, Union and association registration fees, upkeep, purchase of textbooks, handouts, stationaries etc. Therefore, before you know it, your money is almost gone. One of the major expenses is food. Yes, '' man must wack". You know that an hungry man is a angry man. How can you study and concentrate with an empty stomach? It is not impossible!
Haven been a student, I discovered that it is cheaper to cook your food than to buy from restaurant. Many students can testify to this! Remember, when you patronize the restaurant, your bill consist of both the food and the service of that vendor. So, cooking your food will save you of those extra cost.
It saves you from begging and malnutrition.
Those who refuse to cook often run out of cash and results to begging. You will see them come around you when you are cooking, they will be telling you stories or jokes but their target is on the pot. They hardly leave until they have partaken in the meal. How long can one continue like this? Moreover you will be labeled with dehumanizing nicknames. Others who are ashamed of begging, will be skipping meals. These Terms are used 011(no breakfast), 101(no lunch), 110(no dinner), 010(neither breakfast nor dinner) etc . This is malnutrition and starvation.
It enables you to live within your income.
How do you feel going to buy eba with no meat or fish, which is called ''without" in the presence of those beautiful canteen girl? It is very degrading! But, if you're cooking your food, who will know that you don't have enough meat in it. Yes, you can manage the available one to your desire. You can also plan your meal according to your cash.
You can get food stuffs from home.
At home, most students have access to valuable food items such as garri, yam, fish, Palm oil and others for free. Especially those whose parents or relatives are farmers. With this, you can feed fat in campus even when others are complaining of hunger. Those forming big boys or girls, who come back to school with none, are often victims of hunger when their money is exhausted.
It is an opportunity to learn or improve on your cooking skills. Some may not have this opportunity at home, especially those where their house help do almost every thing. Which is bad anyway. Knowing how to cook will help you later in life, when you are staying on your own. Then you will be able to save more by reducing your food bills through cooking your food. It is very disheartening to see graduates especially ladies who cannot cook good food for their husbands. They neglected this while on campus. Some in this category only know how to prepare indomie. Will your husband be eating only that? Funny enough most men don't like indomie. This has destroyed many young marriages.
Although you can patronize the canteen on some occasions, but totally depending on them is highly expensive. Cook that food and save some money for other purpose.