Breakfast on a weekday?
No big deal
By Oluwatoyin Oluwastoyin
Friday,
July 20, 2007
Whatever housekeeping has to do with food? A lot. You are
free to disagree. Fancy you need to be at work at seven in the morning, working
for one of those multi-national companies. The children must be up on time to
be at school for 7:30a.m and breakfast is a family tradition. Enorrmous task?
No! I can hear a gal screaming: “That’s an understatement, it’s
an uphill, mission impossible.”
But some, probably a few, women are
making it. So why not you? How? House-keeping. This is the family version of the
business principle-planning.
A woman who fails to learn the art of housekeeping
is automatically unkempt. She will run round the nook and crannies of her kitchen,
picking yam from a corner; darting across to another for the pot. Suddenly the
early burnt sound of the soup reminds her: “I’ve not put in the spices!”
She rushes to another end of the kitchen for the spices.
You might excuse
that. Probably yours is worse than that. May be sometimes you experience a brainwave
and don’t even know where what is again and needs to search each time duty
calls for any item. You are ight, this is worse. But whichever, both habits lose
time, precious time.
To our earlier illustration, who wants to have to
explain that it was breakfast that caused one to eport late to work. A simple
art of housekeeping would give one a smooth sailing voyage each morning. This
never needs to be a nightmare.
A golden rule: Always put all the ingredients
you need for a meal preparation together, preferably on a tray. This guides against
forgetting any item and enhances speed.
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