Coach Boniswa Tele

I haven't shared meal prep videos in months, but trust me... I've still been eating my plants. 🌱

One batch cook.
One kitchen session.
Several meals sorted.

I cook lentils, chickpeas and rice in bulk, portion only what I need, and weigh my protein so I know exactly what I'm eating.

Today's bowl:
🌱 15g protein from lentils
🌱 15g protein from chickpeas

That's around 30g of plant protein without overthinking it.

Healthy eating doesn't have to be fancy.
It just has to work for your lifestyle.

👉 Want to learn how to build simple, high protein plant-based meals that actually fit your life?

Book your complimentary wellness assessment and explore coaching at eatmoreplants.africa.

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The one thing I have been praying for as a Coach - is having a space - central for you (Sandton Johannesburg) where we can do this wellness journey on a serious note.

I have a website that you explore what the movement Eat More Plants Africa is about (https://eatmoreplants.africa/)

This is where you can order the bundle packs your wellness journey but importantly book your wellness assessment to become a member of my private nutrition club.

You are invited for a free wellness assessment which you must book via https://eatmoreplants.africa/. Appointments only.

Once we know what's happening in the body we can now work towards building healthy compositions.

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Why do I have to go to a Nigerian market to eat like an African in South Africa?

South Africans… why is our healthiest food not in our own stores?

Day 15 and I had to leave my own culture to eat properly…

The real reason I shop at a Nigerian market in South Africa…

We say “eat local” but where is our real food?

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Day 15 of 19 and life has been hectic… but discipline doesn’t clock out just because you’re busy.

Even though I haven’t been posting consistently, I’ve still been showing up for myself through what I eat.

But here’s something that didn’t sit right with me…

I had to go to a Nigerian market just to access indigenous African foods like sorghum, millet, and natural plant-based ingredients.

In my own country.

That’s where I found real variety, real options, real nourishment.

Meanwhile, so many of the easily accessible “local” options around us are processed, unhealthy, and disconnected from what our bodies actually need.

So what are we really selling as South Africans?

And what are we normalizing?

This challenge is bigger than just food. It’s about awareness, access, and unlearning what we’ve been fed.

Busy or not… I’m still choosing better.

If you care about what you’re putting into your body, start asking where your food really comes from.

Eat More Plants Africa

This past weekend at GDG Soweto’s Build with AI, the theme was clear: Agents, AI, and the future of intelligent systems.

But one thing stood out above everything else…
Data. Data. Data.

As developers and builders, we often ask:
“Is there a way around using existing datasets?”
The reality is… not really.

Because behind every intelligent agent, every workflow, every AI system, there is:

data sourcing

data engineering

data storage

data analysis

and continuous data creation

Without it, nothing runs.

And here’s where the real opportunity lies, especially for us on the continent.

We are not just behind in technology…
we are underrepresented in data.

Many of the systems we use today are not built from our context, our environments, or our lived realities. That’s why optimization often feels off. The inputs were never designed with us in mind.

So the mission is clear:
👉 We are not just consumers of AI
👉 We are creators of data

If you can’t find accurate African datasets, images, behaviors, or patterns…
then the work is to build, collect, and structure that data ourselves.

That’s where true innovation begins.

From leveraging tools like Google Cloud, open-source datasets, and AI credits, to understanding data pipelines, governance, and guardrails when building agents, the future builder is not just a coder…
they are a data thinker.

And this is where my perspective comes in.

As someone rooted in education, environmental science, and human development, I spoke about the idea of the Full-Stack Human.

Because while we are building intelligent systems externally…
we are also running a system internally.

Just like AI needs:

clean data

efficient pipelines

strong architecture

Humans need:

quality inputs (nutrition)

energy management

recovery

movement

We cannot talk about optimizing AI systems while ignoring human systems.

The future of building is not just technical.
It is biological, environmental, and deeply human.

So as we move toward AGI and more advanced agents…

Let’s ask ourselves:
👉 What data are we creating?
👉 Who are we building for?
👉 And are we optimizing the system behind the builder?

Because the real power shift will come when we build:
AI systems that reflect us… and humans who can sustain what they build.
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