African Quotes on Food
The continent of Africa is the second largest landmass on Earth, and is home to hundreds of different cultural and ethnic groups. Africanfood is diverse and full of flavour and with thousands of differentethnic groups across Africa, there are plenty of unique recipes. Recipes were traditionally passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, which has changed today. People love food so our ancestors also used food to illustrate lessons about life. Here is a list of proverbs about food.
- As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it. ~Amharic Proverb
- The forest not only hides man’s enemies but its full of man’s medicine, healing power and food. ~African Proverb
- One person is a thin porridge; two or three people are a lump of ugali. ~Kuria Proverb
- The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied. ~African Proverb
- Wine, women and food give gladness to the heart. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
- The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly. ~Kikuyu Proverb
- You cannot work for food when there is no food for work. ~African Proverb
- The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry. ~Bayombe Proverb
- He who eats another mans food will have his own food eaten by others. ~Swahili Proverb
- Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth. ~African Proverb
- No partridge scratches the ground in search of food for another. ~Xhosa Proverb
- The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best food. ~Ghanaian Proverb
- Don’t take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth. ~Malagasy Proverb
- Rich people sometimes eat bad food. ~Kikuyu Proverb
- The impotent man does not eat spicy foods. ~Congolese Proverb
- You should know what’s being cooked in the kitchen otherwise you might eat a forbidden food. ~African Proverb
- When the leg does not walk, the stomach does not eat. ~Mongo (Congolese) Proverb
- A healthy person who begs for food is an insult to a generous farmer. ~Ghanaian Proverb
- One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food. ~Angolan Proverb
- Cooked food is not sold for goats. ~Kikuyu Proverb
- The mouth is stupid after eating it forgets who gave it the food. ~African Proverb
- A dog knows the places he is thrown food. ~Acholi Proverb
- One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others. ~African Proverb
- Words are sweet, but they never take the place of food. ~Ibo Proverb
- The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine. ~Yoruba Proverb
- He who doesn’t clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour. ~African Proverb
- The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food. ~Akamba Proverb
- When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it. ~Kikuyu Proverb
- What one won’t eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food. ~Bantu & Lamba Proverb
- Man is like a pepper, till you have chewed it you do not know how hot it is. ~Haussa Proverb
- No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth. ~Igbo Proverb
- It is not the cook’s fault when the cassava turns out to be hard and tasteless. ~Ewe Proverb
- A housewife who complains that there is not enough foodstuff in the market should remember that if her husband adds to what is already available, there would be more for everyone. ~Nigerian Proverb
- A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap. ~African Proverb
- If you watch your pot, your food will not burn. ~Mauritanian, Nigerian, and Niger Proverb
- Those who are at one regarding food are at one in life. ~Malawian Proverb
- Fine words do not produce food. ~Nigerian Proverb
- Even the best cooking pot will not produce food. ~African Proverb
- If I could see your face, I would not need food. ~Amharic Proverb
- If you find no fish, you have to eat bread. ~Ghanaian Proverb
- War is not porridge. ~Gikuyu Proverb
- The best of mankind is a farmer; the best food is fruit. ~Ethiopian Proverb
- Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the gourd. ~Kuria People of Kenyan & Tanzania
- One shares food not words. ~Somali Proverb
- If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full. ~South African Proverb
- Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food. ~Ghanaian Proverb
- A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful. ~Malagasy Proverb
- If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance. ~African Proverb
- A bad cook also has his/her share of the bad food. ~African Proverb
- The forest provides food to the hunter after he is utterly exhausted. ~Zimbabwean Proverb
- Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup. ~Zimbabwean Proverb
- You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday. ~Zimbabwean Proverb
- Good music goes with good food. ~African Proverb
- Rich people cook their food in a potsherd. ~Kikuyu Proverb
- However little food we have, we’ll share it even if it’s only one locust. ~Malagasy Proverb
- Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food. ~African Proverb
- Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right. ~Ethiopian Proverb
- The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach. ~Kikuyu Proverb
- When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns. ~Zambian Proverb
- Happiness is as good as food. ~Maasai Proverb
- Good words are food, bad words poison. ~Malagasy Proverb
- The goat says: “Where there is blood, there is plenty of food.” ~Ghanaian Proverb
- If you see a man in a gown eating with a man in rags, the food belongs to the latter. ~Fulani Proverb
- They ate our food, and forgot our names. ~Tunisian Proverb
- An abundance of food at your neighbour’s will not satisfy your hunger. ~Bayaka Proverb
- Food you will not eat you do not boil. ~African Proverb
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