Why Githeri? Kenyans Online Ask as Sarova Hotel Donates Lunch to Frontline Healthcare Workers

I guess in Kenya the thought only counts if the food is not of native origin and overpriced. I suppose it sounds more pretentious if they called it organic sun dried white corn and red kidney beans slow simmered over natural wood flames served in a braised hand cut beef and scalloped potato stew with steamed rice and a side dish of fresh hand picked delicately poached cabbage.

As a lifelong member of the house of Mumbi, the meal is filling and healthy and will likely save you from heart problems. It served me well growing up. I don't understand the madharau.

It is a slap in the face.Such a high class hotel can do better.If I want to eat githeri I I can go to a kibanda aka kiosk.

Kenyans and their maskini mentality... This is one of the best gestures so far. Ndio mnaamua clapping and flying over as appreciation....nkt

The food is cooked, packaged and presented in the best hygienic manner...all I care.

What have they sacrificed to feed the medics?

Can we appreciate that this hotel offered a meal to the health workers and stop complaining what kind of food it was. From a dietary standpoint githeri has everything in it, proteins, vegetables, and starch. Most of us grew up eating githeri and i belief we were healthier than most people today.

My mouth is watering at the mention of gītheri my favorite food😋. East or West gītheri is best.

This is how Sarova Hotel should describe the meal, for Kenyans to appreciate it; Rare Pinto beans, served with corn, and Rift Valley potatoes, together with a salad and Nutritious Mwea rice.

Githeri is associated with poverty in Kenya. It is a healthy meal but that does not erase the mentality of poverty when you see it.

Quite a huge number of Kenyans are fools. Those who are criticizing githeri, do you remember we all grew up on this very nutritious meal? How many cases of HBP/heart disease, cancer, diabetes etc (lifestyle diseases) were there those days? Enter western diets and lifestyles - burgers, pizzas, soda, hormone grown chicken etc and bam, cancer rates are through the roof, diabetes, heart disease, name it. We have a lot of idiots who don't think. Whenever I am in Kenya around fast food places on weekends (I never eat from them), I really feel sad for the so called "middle class" families queueing to buy these kinds of food thinking it's a super cool idea of what their middle class culture means. Fools.
I & my folks can afford all these exotic poisons wrapped as food but we have humbly decided that our nyoyo/githeri, sembe na Sukuma, nduma & rabuon are far better for our health …… nyoyo all the way!

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so what do they want Sarova to send over? Pizza, fries, buggers? Nothing wrong here. There are good proteins and carbs in that meal to keep them going...

This is the epitome of mental slavery!
Githeri is as balanced food as they come.
The food pack has proteins, cabs and veggies...🤷‍♀️
Go Sarova go!

People are so careless in their comments....does it mean those of us brought up eating githeri are prisoners??? githeri is good food...maybe sarova would bring adifferent menu every day....why judge them??? what contribution have you done apart from mdomo domo....Those who are brought up with chicken,rice& pizzas mko what difference with those brought up with githeri.... shut your bick....

The nutritional value in Githeri is way more better than the fast foods; pizza,meat etc. Plant proteins in essential and better and the carbohydrates gives our health workers energy to fight this war. When people are in war,they don't eat foods that will weaken them but give them strength.I applaud Sarova Hotels for the kind gesture,out of all the 5star hotels in this country,Sarova chose to show a kind heart and we thank you and God bless you a thousand fold. In a country where the health system is wanting,such kind gestures speak a lot and they show that we as Kenyans we care,this is to motivate our health workers to press on and carry on on our behalf. It takes great heart,and courage and risk to fight this pandemic,more so like writing your own death sentence,but such kind gestures mean a lot. I thank you Sarova and continue, even take for them matoke and mokimo,traditional and indigenous foods that add great value to the body. Let those who are criticizing such kind gestures buy and provide for the health workers a whole cow then they can talk.

I would rather eat githeri rather than eat all that becebece they serve there. Our parents ate Githeri and traditional african foods and lived for many years. Way to go Sarova

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, people. Like someone has pointed out, githeri is a healthy food. Your preferred food donation (pizza or fries perhaps?) is junk food!

Sarova hotels like any other hotel business is DEAD and we should appreciate they are using saved money to help . I don't think Sarova will serve Githeri every day for 30 days or do you want it serves a USD30 meal daily PP.It is unfortunate to attack a donor while ourselves are not sharing . well done Sarova Hotels when biz reopens you are my first choice

The next time you land from majuu drop in at the Kempinski or Sarova and order Pink Lucy beans and corn otherwise known as Githeri.”If the glove don’t fit you must acquit.”.Alternatively drop into the four seasons not even high class and order the same..We are talking about doctors and nurses not starved primary and high school boarding students.These people deserve better you are preaching to the choir do you think these doctors do not know what is nutritious?You ate Githeri while you were growing up no fault of mine still does not change the fact it is low class food.Doctors nurses and you know it too.I do not have to be able to afford a cow to criticize this fake gesture .Supposed PR stunt backfired majorly.Just so you know during exam time Mombasa students feed on pilau a fruit and fresh juice during exam time courtesy of governor 001 .Sarova wacha madharao.

When you fly KQ, or Ethiopian, to Kenya, you are served Githeri with rice on board. The fact that it is a common meal in Kenya does not make it less nutritious, or appetizing.