What are your thoughts on living a very long life?

Food is at the center of my thoughts about living a very long life. I am talking of food that is procured, acquired, prepared and consumed with love. Perhaps the reason I am seduced by the television series “With Love Meghan.” Tell you what? Let me share a very personal example of what I mean.…

Food is at the center of my thoughts about living a very long life.

I am talking of food that is procured, acquired, prepared and consumed with love. Perhaps the reason I am seduced by the television series “With Love Meghan.”

Tell you what? Let me share a very personal example of what I mean. Here goes:

This morning, I cracked open a jar of strawberry jam. It was gifted to me by my sister-in-love, all the way from Paris. As I love doing, I experimented spreading strawberry jam on my homemade lemon-flavored mandazi (of pancake family).

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The combination ignited love from my taste buds.

By the way, the lemon juice that I used to flavor my mandazi, was freshly harvested from our lemon trees in our front yard garden. We are truly blessed with bounty. Fruit tress laden with ripe fruits and others at different stages of fruiting. Guaranteeing that all year round we have fresh fruit.

Back to enjoyment of my breakfast, with it, I had a cup of our very own Ugandan coffee, freshly brewed. Truly, this morning the love emanating from by breakfast was overwhelmingly good. Even the dishes in which I consumed it have nostalgic love feelings attached to them. Igniting powerful good memories from the past.

A very long life in which I am in control of my food, from seed to mouth is one that I would love to enjoy. I do believe, the kind of food that I love and try mostly to eat, organic Ugandan food, contributes to the chance that I can live a very long healthy life.

It is for this reason I pay attention to and believe it my civic duty to put a spotlight on the food security situation in my homeland, and also around the world, but mostly my homeland.

“Two billion people in the world do not have regular access to safe nutritious and sufficient food,” according to the United Nations. Certainly many of them are from my part of the world.

According to the most recent Uganda National Household Survey, conducted in 2024, case in point, only 19% of households in my home district, Pallisa in Bukedi Sub-Region in Eastern Uganda are food secure. Meaning a whopping 81% of households in my home district are food insecure.

CLICK HERE to read more about the State of Food Security in Uganda.

In case you wonder why I share this. My intention is so you may appreciate the context from whence I locate to say I do not take lightly my privilege of access to food. And food that I love and which contributes to my bodily health, and also my mental health. Knowing I am loved and I have loved ones is the best feeling ever.

That special love expressed centered around food is among the major reasons I would love to enjoy a very long life.