Yessydey’s Easy D Meal Plan

The Yessydey 7-day diversity meal plan was developed with diversity mostly in mind. Another way to use the word ‘diversity’ is to say ‘eat varied meals’ or a variety of foods.  I know that the diversity meal plan I created may not work for everyone so I have created another one with both diversity (variety) and a little convenience (easier) as a priority. The next one I will work on will be a Meal plan on a slim budget so please watch out for that.

Eating healthy takes some effort and you just have to walk the extra mile to get that quality in food that your body deserves. Diversity or variety in food is something that will give you more access to different nutrients that your body needs.

If you look through this menu, you will see that fruits and vegetables feature daily. Fruits and vegetables are micronutrient-rich and in addition to protein, healthy grains, roots, tubers and legumes, they form a diverse diet that can help prevent malnutrition and promote health generally.

The Breakfast meals are easy to make and they take little time. With proper planning, you can have great breakfasts. Please remember that this is just a guide and it can assist you by suggesting alternative choices when you are at a restaurant also.

For lunch, the meals in the plan are not strangers to restaurants or canteens and you should be able to purchase some of them if you do not want to prepare them yourself or you are on-the-go.

The dinners are easy-to-do meals after a tiring day.

As mentioned in my previous post, you can modify to suit your preferences, foods are available to you and what you have in your pocket. If you are adventurous with food, you can explore some of the recipes that I have on my website like Craincrain soup (Ewedu), Ikokore (Water yam pottage), Bread with Efo riro etc. You can eat our indigenous foods and still be healthy.

Finally, you can focus on easy but meals with variety during the week while you make more time-consuming meals at the weekend if you have the time.

Shopping List for the Meal Plan

1. White Bread
2. Milk
3. Crate of eggs
4. Rice/Ofada rice
5. Beans (You can also purchase beans flour for your moin moin and gbegiri)
6. Tapioca
7. Sweet potato
8. Irish potato
9. Yam
10. Pounded Yam flour
11. Elubo (Yam flour for Amala)
12. Fufu (buy flour or buy fufu)
13. Eko (Agidi) (You can buy or make your own)
14. Oats
15. Pap (you can make your pap or buy freshly made from a good source)
16. Unripe Plantain
17. Banana
18. Pawpaw
19. Watermelon
20. Apple
21. Pineapple
22. Pawpaw
23. Orange
24. Mixed vegetables (frozen or buy fresh carrots, green beans and green peas)
25. Cabbage and carrot
26. Tomatoes, Pimento pepper (Tatase), Scotch bonnet (Rodo)
27. Onions
28. Beef
29. Chicken
30. Fish (Mackerel (Titus or Kote); Croaker, Tilapia, Catfish, ‘Argentina’ whatever you prefer)
31. Fresh shrimps or Periwinkle
32. Liver, Gizzard, (other offals for the ofada stew)
33. Leafy Vegetables (Jews Mallow (Ewedu); Pumpkin leaves (Ugu),
34. Garden egg
35. Okra
36. Egusi
37. Ogbono

Note: This might look like a long list to Shop for but you probably have some of the ingredients at home or are going to buy some ingredients just once in a while especially the grains and flours. If there is electricity, you can purchase your beef, fish, and chicken in bulk and freeze them. If you have a problem with electricity, you can modify the meal plan such that you get to repeat the use of some ingredients to avoid spoilage.