Table 5.

Narratives and photographs on the sub-theme ‘support with food provision and preparation’

Accra	‘My husband is someone who provides the money that I use to buy food stuff and cook for the family to eat. At times I will be preparing banku and we will volunteer to help by frying the fish while I concentrate on preparing the banku… At times he goes to the kitchen to cook for the family whilst I rest. He could prepare the soup and also pound the fufu for us to eat’ (Female, 19–49 years, low-middle SES, A34).
Ho	‘Me, even my husband cooks for me. He can really cook. I don’t have time at all, So the males here also cook. So when you have a wife and you cook for her, it doesn’t mean, she has overcome you’ (Female, 19–49 years, low-middle SES, H15).
Accra	‘Sometimes he (my friend) has the money so he will be the one to choose the food. Sometimes I also buy and the two of us eat but mostly he is the one having money so most of the times he does and we go and buy food’ (Male 19–49 years, low-middle SES, A23).
Ho	‘There are times too, when I go and ask my friend to lend me some, and if she also doesn’t have the money, then that days food will be difficult for me and I won’t be able to eat. And I just can’t get up and ask anybody for money, I have to ask from the person I am close with. They are the only ones I can I ask money from, and if they also do not have it, well, then I can’t do anything about it’ (Female, 19–49 years, lowest SES, H13).
Nairobi	‘This picture is for my friends, you will find that there are times you find yourself you do not have enough money or you do not have money, you will find from one of your friends volunteers to buy you food, if another day also he does not have you are able to sort him out’ (Male, 19 to 49 years, lowest SES, N44).