My most cheapest and expensive food experience

Greetings everyone🙌

I'm someone who derives so much pleasure from cooking the food I eat, coupled with the fact that home eating is more economical, especially in this harsh economy. However, we can't just help it sometimes, and we end up buying cooked food outside due to the unavailability of chance or when we are in transit.
In this article, I will be sharing the most cheapest and expensive food I've had in my entire life.

First of all, the only thing I eat out is swallow. I can't be seen eating rice in a restaurant. For what! Lol😂

_{This a soup sample | Image is mine}

So, all the food experience below is all centered on soup

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Most cheapest

One of the days of last year that I went out to hustle outside my field, I got home very late(around 10:30pm) because the work took a lot of time. There was no food at home, and that's because I finished the one remaining before leaving in the morning. I wanted to do a 'quickie noddles' but I'm not a fan of it, especially when I'm very hungry.

I collected 1,000 naira and went to a restaurant close to my house. When I got there, the children were so surprised to see me at their shop because I don't go there to eat at all.

"Please, I want to buy just soup; I have eba at home," I said to their mother, the owner of the restaurant.

"Okay, it's 1,500 naira."

"Haaaa! 1,500naira? It's just to soup that I want, in case you're calculating EBA." My exclamation was so alarming that it attracted the most elders of her daughter.

"I know na, that's the price. It's goat meat, you know," she said, making emphasis on the goat meat.

Yeah, I love goats, but I wasn't ready to fall into that trap. I told them to reduce the price, but the woman and her children refused, they only removed 100naira from it.
I walked away because it was far higher than my budget, which was 300 naira to 500 naira.

I walked and entered the next restaurant, I described what I wanted to buy, and was told the cost was 300 naira.

I was shocked; that's so cheap. I didn't haggle; I told them to sell for me.
Within 2 minutes, I was handed the food in black nylon. I didn't check; I just paid and left.

Getting home, I opened it, and wow, the soup was too much, exactly the quantity that's suppose to worth 1,000 naira.

I settled down, and the first one I put in my mouth gave me a sharp slap on my cheek.
"What's this?" I turned on my phone's touch to clearly see the nature of the food. It was looking nice, but the taste was not it at all. It was so bad.

I didn't want to waste my money, and I was also very hungry. So, I turned on my gas and recooked the soup, and yes, it came to life.😂

The most expensive

There's this restaurant I've been patronizing for a while, majorly on weekends (say, once or twice a month) and that happens whenever I'm so tired from hustling.

On Saturday last week, I was so worn out as usual and didn't have anything to eat. I went to the salon to cut my hair, and upon returning, I entered the restaurant to buy food.

"What do you want to buy?" The attendant asked me.

"Please give me the usual; exactly how I used to buy," I replied, and she stood trying to recall what she usually sell for me.

"Oooh, okay," she nodded after like 30 seconds and went on to serve the food.

She was done; she handed me the food in black nylon, and I gave her 1,000 naira for her to give me change of 400 naira

She collected and went to attend to other customers while I stood there waiting for my change.

"Bros, you want to buy another thing?" she asked curiously after she had brainstormed the reason I was still there.

"No ooo! I'm waiting for my change," I replied.

"Change? There's no change, ooo! The food is now 1,000 naira."

Her words sent shivers down my spine. I lifted the nylon up to check if it's the same food I used to buy, 600 naira, that they suddenly added a whole 400 within weeks.

Jeeez! I wanted to raise an alarm, but I knew it'd bring embarrassment to me, so I quietly took myself out of the shop and
I vowed not to go there again.

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Before you attack me on why I didn't ask about the cost of the food first, know that I was used to the price and she (and they) knew what I normally buy, so there's no need for me to ask about the price.
As a norm, they were supposed to inform me of the increase in cost, but they didn't.

Thanks for reading.

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_{This is my entry to the Week 90, Edition 01 of the Weekly Featured contest in Hive Learners Community.}