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Campus foods with high demand curve

Surviving through the semester could be one of the toughest times for a student more so, when any rumors concerning HELB are not forthcoming because the application was just done the other week and it would take not less than 3 months for Ringera to respond. This time of the semester, you pass by your favorite sukuma wiki spot only to be told ‘customer your late come early tomorrow’.

You come the next day thirty minutes earlier and the same answer resurfaces. You ask yourself what’s happening .Why does vegetables deplete so fast of late? And the answer is ‘demand is high’. Comrades turn into being herbivorous then you realize heaven has broken lose. During that period, the following foodstuffs are like gold, everyone hunts for them and the demand curve shoots high. Vegetables such as sukuma wiki, cabbage and spinach are rare to find in the stalls.

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