The Diary Game: ||A Day Patronizing Mini Store instead Going to Big Market for Shopping||17th September,2026//

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It been few days I haven't shared my diary. Yeah, I have a whole lot to catch with on, but I will start with the pending entries I had in mind to share before my short break. Stay tuned!

My short break was due to data exhaustion and the vendor who usually subscribe for me at a subsidized rate was unavailable and buying it directly from platform is usually more expensive, that has kept me from sharing my diary as at when due.

Let’s get into the real details of my diary.

Naturally, I’m not a fan of patronizing mini-stores. I prefer going to the general market to buy my foodstuffs because of the many benefits, especially the better prices and variety. But on this particular day, September 17, 2026, I woke up feeling very different. I had no energy to make the trip to the general market, which is a little far from my house.

So, I had no choice but to walk down to the store close to my house to buy the items I needed to prepare soup. Thankfully, I wasn’t planning to make anything complicated—just a simple soup.

Shoot from itelp65c	Here's at the small store buying locally made fish for my soup

While buying the ingredients, I noticed once again how expensive food items can be at these small stores. Of course, they have to make a profit after covering their expenses, so the prices are usually higher than what I would pay at the general market. Still, I had no option because I had already decided not to go to the big market that morning.

After buying everything I needed, I walked back home and started preparing my soup. This time, I decided to make okra, melon, and bitter-leaf soup.

Shoot from itelp65c	Here's when I was trekking back home after buying my necessary food items

In the afternoon, after I got back home, I started preparing my meal immediately because I haven't had any meal since morning, I was deeply hungry and yarning to eat. I didn't waste much time I sliced the okra, washed a handful of bitter-leaf just to spice it up, I had already prepared my ingredients and seasoned them properly and went straight in cooking my meal

	Here's the soup,a combination of okra, bitter-leaf and melon

It was a simple and easy going soup with top-notch taste. After cooking I quickly boiled water to make garri swallow so that it will be used to eat the soup, I would have loved to eat the soup with fufu swallow but it was not readily available so I have to make make use of the available.
Here's the combo for the meal 👇👇

Garri	Soup dished for myself

In the evening, I didn't have much chores, I just freshen up got to bed but before I could dose of I had to engage with my social media friends using free mode at least to read the headline of people status before I finally called it a day.

That was how I managed my day.