White Garri

Garri na Lagos survival food — di cheapest staple for ₦1,256 per paint bucket. E drop 39% from last year because cassava harvest dey plenty. Soak am for cold water with sugar and groundnut, di meal cost less than ₦500. Mix am with hot water as eba and put soup, na full dinner. No food matter pass garri for Lagos food security.

White garri na the everyday workhorse of the cassava staple — the plain, cream-colour version (no be like yellow garri, wey dem fry with palm oil for colour and fuller taste). Im two big work na eba, where you stir am inside hot water as swallow, and soaking, where you chop am cold with sugar, groundnut and milk. That versatility, plus long shelf life, na why almost every Lagos kitchen dey keep bag.

On price, garri na one of the more stable staple, but e no dey immune: e dey track the cassava harvest and the cost of processing, and e dey climb for planting season before the new root come in. Because e dey store for months when you keep am dry, to buy in bulk during cheaper window na genuine saving. For the value wey e dey deliver — filling, flexible and cheap per plate — white garri remain one of the best return for the whole market.