Angela Ukomadu's Blog

   Just like every part of the palm tree is used for one thing or the other, so it is for the snail🐌 too. Absolutely nothing goes to waste. The flesh is used for meat, said to be highly nutritious and low in cholesterol. The slime is used for cosmetic products that can help to regenerate skin cells and heal wounds. The shell is blended and used for poultry feeds or fertilizer! Yep yep, didn't know about that until this story.    So there is also a huge market out there for the African giant snails that are in abundance in the country. People are buying these up and exporting to other countries like the UK, America and Europe...but to send to America, the snails need to be cleaned and freezed, but for other countries, they can be exported alive as far as you do a proper documentation and meet the required health approval of the said country. America considers the creature as a highly voracious and invasive pest that poses a risk to agriculture, the environment an...

     Its been a while since my last post. Baby things happened people. I had a third child, and kinda slowed down a bit. But I'm back again, searching for all the exciting and inspiring stories that we can find.      This story is very dear to me because I found out about this range of baby food after I had my third child and decided she had to eat whole, healthy and natural meals. I mean with all the fitfam that I do and also subject my hubby to, it would be so awful of me to start the little one with over-processed, over-sugared and preservative-filled containers of baby food that line supermarket shelves!      And that was how I found this Nigerian food entrepreneur Seun Sangoloye, the "Mum-In-Chief" of BabyGrubz, a range of baby meals that cater for weaning babies and toddlers.      A graduate of Computer Science, she started the food range in 2013 when she could not find a locally made natural meal to wean her baby. ...