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I am more likely to 'undereat'! Travelling alone means making a braai fire is a waste of valuable fuel every evening - and I am too busy game viewing (and posting trip reports ) to bother much with cooking..... So I snack instead. Rolls with good fillings are a staple. Problem is also storing things after cooking/opening tins - unless I want to eat the same thing for several meals in a row.

Suggestions for solo travellers????

Solo travellers .

Make that basic pasta salad (even bring in a tupperware from home) - lasts for days in fridge .
And add lefteovers on ad hoc basis for variety .

Boil in the bag rice. 1 sachet = one portion and takes 10 minutes to cook. As above leftovers can then be added, although I add a can of peas and a can of sweetcorn which you can get in small sizes.

You can also get small tins of tomatoes which go nice with pasta. And once dried pasta is opened it lasts for ages.

I work 16- or 24-hour shifts every 4 days, so I've become quite good at meals for 1 that keep well... Breyani and pasta salads are great - they taste even better the next day! Prepare them at home (or components thereof) and life is easy!

Hubby and I made a big pan of roast veggies for our last trip - they're versatile, and can be added to cous-cous / rice / pasta / Thai curry for a quick meal.

I would like to ad my own recipe for my little "boere omlet" for all you guys to try.

Make sure that you have a quit a big pot of boiling water on the fire before you start with your omlets. The only rare/extra thing that you need for this "boere-omlet" is medium size zip-lock jiffy bag per person. (The ones for baking purposes - the freezing ones will also do). Before you start all the bags can be individually marked/named wit a marking pen to make sure that you don't end up with someone else's omlet.

Prepare seperate bowls of chopped onion, greenpeppers, mushrooms, bacon, cheese, tomato, or any thing you would like to be "on" your omlet. For each person you need 2 eggs. Now, break the eggs into your ziplock bag, hold the top of the bag very tight and shake well and please make sure that the bag is held tight before you start shaking. Add your choise of "toppings" into the bag, with your salt & pepper etc. Now let all the access air out of the bag. Give a last gentle shake. Now the bag can be zip-locked.

Put all the bags at the same time into the boiling water and boil for 14-16 minutes. Remove from the pot. Open the bag (just make sure that the steam in the bag does not burn the little ones). Now, your little omlet will just "roll" from the bag onto your plate. (The end result looks like a thick rolled pancake).

I just love this. That is now as I say. QAED - Quick and easy done.

Hope this "boere-omlet" will become part of your life.

Kind Regards

Ria Smith - Phalaborwa

That boere omelet sounds so clever - will definitely try it!
We have a special spade that we take with us camping. One of the deep kind. Never to be used in the garden. We do something similar to the pasta salad - but its hot. I cook my pasta with chicken stock. Saute absolutely whatever in the spade - always garlic included, but anything that you feel like. Then add the pasta and grate over lots of cheese. Its a nice change from braai and lekker cold the next day.

Stir Fry on the skottle

I'm sure our menu is much the same as lots of other people's, but here goes.

We get up about 45mins before the gates open, have some rooibos tea, have a shower and pack our "rations" for the day.

At first suitable place (favourite is Lake Panic bird hide) we have coffee and rusks. Whilst driving after that, I usually nibble on a naartjie (tangerine).

Around 11.30/midday we stop at one of the picnic spots (favourites are Mlondozi Dam and N'wanetsi). We hire a skottle and my husband then cooks a wonderful brunch: sausages, bacon, mushrooms, onion, sliced potato (pre-cooked in skin), baked beans and toast (done on the edge of the skottle). We usually have some "bubbly" to wash the meal down. I must say, after about 6 hours of driving, the meal goes down really well. It is also such a treat to have it in such wonderful surroundings.

When we get back to wherever we are staying we might nibble on some cheese and biscuits.

In the evening we used to have a braai, when our daughters were with us, but now we often just have a light snack. A favourite is a cheese fondue (you can buy the fondue mix at most supermarkets).

All this talk of Kruger catering is making me look forward even more to our next trip.

I know Bert loves rusks ....

Whats on your Kruger menu?

Especially for DinkyBird,
on our last trip we discovered the delights of toast, Rump boerewors and black pudding for breakfast. With mushroom and onions of course

The bacon and egg toasted sandwiches from the cafes for breakfast. It takes the rest of the year for my cholesterol to recover.

When we go to the bushcamps, beanfeast curry one night and soup the next, otherwise its the restaurants in the evenings. We really need to learn how to braai!

saraf - having a braai is not so difficult. You really must try it next time.

In SA it is seen as something the macho men do (and the women keep out of the way). Well, my daughter and I (de-tribalised Pom, as my husband calls me) managed a few successful braais on our last trip to KNP without any help!! I think overseas visitors think there is some secret to a braai - I think if you follow the hints in some of the other Forum topics, you can't go wrong. There is nothing nicer than a braai in the bush.

So anyone got any veggie recipes for the braai?

Hi Saraf have a look here some veggie ones I think

here's one for onions...same thread
Snap Dotty