#ChopBox

#ChopBox is a catering service covering a wide range of food production, including local and intercontinental dishes. We cater primarily to people who may not have the luxury of time to prepare a homemade meal.

As a mobile kitchen, we take orders from our customers on a daily basis, making it easy and convenient for them to carry on with their daily activities without any worries.

At the moment, #ChopBox is very mobile. There are a couple of kitchens we operate from. These are just kitchens, not a restaurant where people can come and eat. At the moment we take orders and deliver that food to your location. We take orders from 6 am to 12noon every day. After 12noon the orders are for the next day. We also cater for outdoor events. So we are strictly on orders for now. We also cater for outdoor events.

We strive to make customers eat healthily, so we are always incorporating a balanced diet. If you are subscribed as a single, we supply food twice a week (e.g. breakfast and dinner). A typical selection would have carbohydrates, protein (of choice), vegetables, and fruits. We also do customer-specific menus including grilling, barbecue, and many more. Some costumers could order just a meal serving say breakfast, lunch, or dinner, but our orders are also in bulk; 3 or 4 liters of soups, stews, and salads are available to order.

Pricing mostly depends on the protein (meat/fish). Some customers like exotic protein like prawns, crabs, etc. a 3 liter of soup for example is N7,000 and a 1 liter is N2500. A typical monthly subscription is N30,000. With this subscription, the customer can have the food come 3 times a week or as the customers want. On the subscription package, customers can choose when ordering the soups/stews to have the carbohydrate (swallow; fufu/poundo/garri, sometimes rice) made or not. With as low as N15,000 customers can have food supplied three times in the week.

We are a very small establishment at the moment and so far our team has been so efficient. The team of six has chefs and delivery persons. As the business grows we would the staff would definitely grow. Ordering is limited to Abuja for now, but when it comes to event catering we do some major cities in Nigeria.

We have developed our own menu recipes. These are our signature recipes. As we expand new chefs would learn these recipes to keep our taste.

#ChopBox – Eat healthily; Eat more

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DYSLEXIA?

By Ms Patience

Growing up as a child in Lagos, I had a neighbor whom I believed was the most beautiful girl ever. She was dark and lovely. However, she had challenges academically. In fact, she was labeled dumb because she couldn’t read. She also believed God did not give her intelligence. Naysayers made it worse by insinuating that her family ‘used her head’ to make the family business prosper. Eventually, she dropped out of school and joined the family business. And she really prospered.

So, over the years, I’ve wondered: would life had been somewhat different for her if the teachers were equipped enough to discover she may have had Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a combination of strengths and difficulties that may affect learning, reading, writing, spelling, and word finding. It is a spectrum, which includes children of all abilities. It's thought to affect about ten percent of the population.

Often one of the first signs that a child may have dyslexia is when you notice a big difference between that child's general intelligence and their poor performance in reading and writing tasks. This discrepancy can seem surprising or hard to explain.

In subsequent editions, we will find out the signs to look out for in a child who may be struggling with dyslexia.