Food

To drink apple juice is as much fun

As it is to eat a well baked bun

Baked Beans, Biscuits and Bread

Ever ready for an instant breakfast spread

Cabbage stew, coconut burfi, boiled corn

Nutritious boon for having been born

Dates and dry fruits are not a daily feed

Like the dairy products that are an essential need

And so are the eggs used in many a dish

Eggs in cakes, eggs in soufflé, all a gourmet’s wish

Cuisines of different traditions of commoner’s fish

Fenugreek, garlic and ginger, we need to season

Including greens & grape juice stands to reason

All for a healthy life that none could buy for money

First in the morning drink warm water mixing lime& honey

Hamburgers for meat lovers, children fancy ice cream

Butter and jam and chilled jelly too are in their dream

Lentil soup rich in fibre and protein and so is kidney beans,

Lamb chops or roasts not known to them who feed on greens

Lobster soup is medicinal for common cold

Mushroom is vegetarian and millet is pure gold

Rich man’s diet work out but for poor it is staple

Making two ends meet is a problem to grapple

Chinese staple noodles, a mother’s boon

To feed a fussy child during day sans moon

Oh! What a choice! Oats or oyster or olive or onion

Organic is the best is popular opinion.

Pan cakes, pizza, peanuts are some popular P’s

And so are the potatoes and green peas

I searched intensely with no efforts to spare

And there it was Quisp cereal sauce though quite rare

Rice is staple north, south, west or east

Its fodder feeds even the beast

Soup of any kind is known to nourish in which

Sweet corn or spinach, tomato or turtle serve to enrich

Udon noodles serve as meal as also soup

Upma a savoury delicious with each scoop

Venison is the meat of any species of deer

Walnuts like cashew are very much dear

Wheat is cereal, and its flour recipes baffle

In variety and so does the whole grain waffle

Xi gua lao the Chinese recipe of watermelon juice

Yoghurt digests and so in common use

Yam is a vegetable and makes tasty wafers

Think of Zucchini bread, your mouth waters.

Though last but not the least

From A to Z is indeed a feast.