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diayne:
I can say that I have tried the vegetarian diet. As a person I don't like meat. I Know it's funny because am a Nigerian living in Nigeria. Even as a child I was noted for spitting out my meat chunks after chewing them. Lol
In my years as a university student I hardly ever cooked with meat. I just avoided it. From my experience a lot of Nigerian foods are essentially vegetarian eg yam and beans, porridge yam with amaranth green, Jollof rice can easily be made vegetarian, indomie, Jollof spaghetti, Fried yam and tomato sauce, akara, (I went to UNN) local Nsukka meals like okpa, ayaraya ji AKA fio fio or Agbugbu, igbangu oka. I think with some determination one can easily be a vegetarian in Nigeria. And we do have great vegetarian protein options. Okpa for example is reach in protein. Okpa milk has been shown to have more protein than milk as in cow milk itself. Soyamilk can easily be found in Nigeria and that's another good protein source. I need encouragement though to go vegetarian. I am seriously considering it... But I am married to a Hunter's grandson so vegetarian diet will be a bit tricky to introduce in this house lol.
I however like fish which would easily make me a Pescatarian that is someone who adheres to the vegetarian diet but eats fish...

And to contribute to this discussion I would like to clarify that vegan and vegetarians are not the same. A vegetarian does not eat animal flesh. A vegan also does not eat animal flesh but their lifestyle excludes all animal bi-products such as leather (they will not use a car that has leather seats or leather whatever), they do not use cosmetic products that are made with animal extract (eg some lipsticks are made with crushed beetles as red colorant and as such vegans will not use them. Some soaps and creams contain animal milk extracts true vegans will not use them) , they would not use or wear silk and woolen products. So vegetarian is a diet choice while Vegan is a lifestyle.

After reading through the comments I wanted to clarify that vegans and vegetarians are quite different. Vegan is extreme.
I am an on and off vegetarian myself but when I saw that I didn't have enough protein in me I stopped.

To be a successful vegetarian in Nigeria you have to be ready to spend money because to replace milk, fish, egg, meat, any animal product with a plant based protein is expensive.

The other day I wanted to buy almond milk in place of three crown, peak milk and the rest, it was quite expensive.

To be a successful vegetarian in Nigeria you need to make sure you leave your house with your belly full so that you will not have "olojukokoro" on animal based food. When going for a party, eat bellefull.

Other tips I am going to be giving when I go back to being a vegetarian. I haven't found any blogger who is a vegetarian and lives in Nigeria, and who is a vegetarian on budget. That will be the scope of my blog.

In addition there are several categories of vegetarianism. The idea of being a vegetarian is to incorporate more vegetables and plant based meal in our food. For instance before I became a vegetarian I can fry three eggs with one ball of pepper, one ball of tomatoes and 1/6 medium size onions, but now it's one egg with three vegetable pepper (the big pepper that is usually not hot), four ball tomatoes, 1/3 medium size onions, ugwu (pumpkin, if I like), green pepper, spring onions and the likes.
Various types of vegetarianism includes:
Lacto-ovo-vegetarians eat plant-based foods, dairy products, and eggs, and exclude meat, poultry, and fish.
Lacto-vegetarians [/b]eat plant-based foods and dairy products, and exclude meat, poultry, fish, and eggs.
[b]Ovo-vegetarians eat plant-based foods and eggs, and exclude meat, poultry, fish, and dairy products.
Pesco-vegetarians [/b]eat a vegetarian diet but also include fish.
[b]Semi-vegetarians may eat dairy products or eggs, as well as a little fish and chicken, and generally exclude meat; also called partial vegetarians.

I am going to create a WhatsApp group strictly for vegetarians, if you are a vegan you could also join us. Here we will discuss how to be a vegetarian in the year 2020 in Nigeria, how to start little and how to remain healthy.

I also want to add that we should have a strong reason for being a vegetarian, this can motivate us to want to remain vegetarians. For me it is good health, fresh and young looking skin.

Most of us know Gabrielle Union she is a semi vegetarian together with good genes she seem never to grow old.

Here's the WhatsApp group link https:///E4g2IrY5EyIFGJ42tfvOux

Thank you for joining us.

Stay blessed.

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I'm in need of self contain at Ibadan.
Between Moniya and Ojoo
My budget is 70k for rent per annum.
Major requirement: running water
Minor requirements: fenced compound, tiles, wardrobe.

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