Making Nigerian Waterleaf Soup (In The UK, Using Available Ingredients)

In a recent video (here: https://youtu.be/-3h2jLnHi1A ) we saw waterleaf soup being made in Nigeria - I was curious to see if I could try to reproduce the recipe here in the UK. This is my first attempt...

I was *not* able to make it for anything like the limited budget that we saw Babatunde achieve in the above video - in fact, my soup was more than 15 times the cost of Babatunde's (7.5 times the cost, to make half the amount - and that doesn't include maize for breakfast, or the Fufu he had with dinner) - here are my costings:

Item -- price for amount used (price for whole pack)
Palm Oil - £0.10 (£1.99)
Soybean Paste - £0.15 (£3.69)
Onion £0.10 (£0.10)
Maggi Cubes - £0.06 (£2.99)
Stockfish - £5.59 (£5.59)
Gari - £0.15 (2.99)
Scotch Bonnet Peppers - £1.36 (£1.36)

Total for this meal: £7.51 = 3,629 Naira
(Total shopping £18.71 = 9,050 Naira)

Видео Making Nigerian Waterleaf Soup (In The UK, Using Available Ingredients) канала Atomic Shrimp