
So I can never eat rice again? No more eba? What will I now be eating in this country — salad?"
That's the first question in every African home after a sugar diagnosis. And then somebody hands over a foreign diet plan — quinoa, oatmeal, broccoli. Foods that are unavailable, unaffordable, or simply not ours. It collapses by week two. The diet didn't fail the person. It was never built for an African kitchen.
This guide starts from OUR pot:
🍚 40+ African staples ranked — rice, eba, fufu, amala, pounded yam, banku, ugali, chapati, bread, yam, plantain — 🔴 handle with care, 🟡 middle ground, 🟢 friendly foundation — with the smarter version of each (why parboiled rice beats polished white; why half-ripe boli beats fried dodo; why waakye is a gift to this whole subject)
✊ The First Rule — the swallow portion method that keeps eba, fufu, and amala ON your table with calmer readings. This one page alone is worth the book
🍽️ The 6 Plate Rules that lower ANY meal — including the eating-order trick, the "never send a carb in alone" rule, and why yesterday's cooled-and-reheated rice is genuinely the better rice
🥣 The Soup & Swallow Advantage — the good news nobody tells us: egusi, okra, efo, afang, and ogbono are naturally on your side. The problem was never the soup
📅 A full 7-day meal plan from normal market food — with the market list, and West & East African swaps (banku, ugali, sukuma wiki included)
🥤 The "small small" traps — minerals, malt (yes, malt), sweetened zobo, gala-and-mineral lunches, the agege-bread-and-sweet-tea morning — with the swap for each
👨👩👧 The one-pot family system — how the whole house eats this way without cooking two soups, plus the red-flag list that means hospital, not food plan
What this book will NOT do: cure anything, or replace your doctor, your drugs, or your testing. It works ALONGSIDE them — and it says so on page two, because your health deserves honesty, not promises.
Clinic nutrition consultations cost ₦10,000–₦25,000 per session, and still hand out many people foreign food lists. This guide, built food-by-food for African kitchens, is ₦3,000. One copy protects a whole household.
🔒 Instant PDF download. 👉 Buy it for yourself — or for the person you cook for.