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When we wake up it's coffee (my husband cannot function without a cup of coffee first). Then drive to a waterhole and have more coffee and rusks and biscuits.

Snacks during the day (chocolates (mainly for me ), biltong and dry wors (for hubbie), crisps, fruit, pretzels)

Lunch is normally leftovers from the night before with a salad, rolls, cheese, etc. with a castle or two for hubbie and a glass of wine for me.

Same snacks for the afternoon.

Sundowners next to a waterhole is cheese, biscuits, pate.

Almost forgot, just before the shop closes, we buy vanilla ice cream (in the tubs) and after supper we have the ice cream with a chock liqueur poured over Absolutely yummy


Supper is mostly a braai, sometimes a stir fry or a potjie.

What is nice for the new members?

Eating skilpaadjies?

For those of use with no Afrikaans, what are skilpaadjies?

Sorry Arks!!

"Skilpaadjies" is a traditional South African dish of liver wrapped in suet. Skilpaadjies = Tortoises.

Thanks, GP!! I trust you mean that they look like tortoises, not that they are made from tortoise?

My Afrikaans is going to definitely improve from spending time in this forum. I've been surprised that I know a bit more than I'd realised, which isn't too bad for a monolingual American.

cheers, arks

They're about the size of a tortoise without a shell - not that I've ever seen one!
Meg always thought it was genuine, but I promise you it's not.

My favourite ......T-bone streak on the braai with mealie and potato (cottage cheese on potato). Nothing can beat that. We always have a big, flash breakfast the day we are leaving with eggs, bacon, left over steak, sausage, onion, tomato, banana and toast. For the other days, rusks and coffee. Plenty of "snacks" for the road and generally something from one of the camps for lunch. We also like to have minute steaks on a roll for lunch at the picnic spots.

Ok, heres our menu:(Not all items every day)

Early Breakfast:
Coffee/Tea/Fruit Juice
Rusks
Cereal
Jungle Oats (Oats-so-Easy, just add boiling water)
Fruit (Ruby Grapefruit/Banana/Pear/Naartjies)

Mid-Morning: (while in car)
Fruit, sparkling water etc..

Lunch: Any combination of the following...
Braai;
Chicken Kebabs/Fillet/T-Bone usually with Boerewors (All meat vacum packed and brought from JHB) well marinaded of course! With cucumber, tomato, gerkins, baked potato and "Peppadews" (they make the best snack with cottage cheese!)

Dinner:
Braai;
Similar to above but usually a lighter choice and depends on what was had for lunch. Sometimes a Pasta Dish like Pumpkin Panzerotti or Pene Arabiata (these are also had for Lunch). Giant Mushrooms with olive oil and other seasoning on the braai are delicious!

Before-Bed:

Tea/ Hot Chocolate/ Decaf Coffee with Rusks/Biscuits.

We only eat at the resturant if we are at the camp for only one night. Snacks in the car are usually, bottled water, sweets, fruit, biltong and dried wors depending on time of day.

Coffee first thing, then biscuits as we are driving around for the early morning.

Back to camp for breakfast consisting of toasted sandwich and coffee and orange juice.

Then nuts, dried fruit, crisps or crackers and water while we are driving around.

Lunch time snack of chips and a Windhoek and a coke.

Then cheese and crackers for him and biltong for me as we're driving back to camp.

Then snacks in the evening.

And Mopani is a la carte and Lower Sabie is buffet
SO is a veggie so there's not much choice for him in the camp restaurants. Plus, in Mopani he found a chicken bone in his meal and at Lower Sabie there were long-tailed critters running all over the place, which kind of put us off.

Definitely ...

1. Take one bag of Charcoal & one packet of Blitz (firelighters).
2. Put 4 small pieces of Blitz on Braai and light.
3. Add charcoal over blitz ..
4. Wash hands ...
5. Pour Amarula on Ice or Open can of Castle.
6. Sit next to fire enjoying Amarula or Castle (nicer if you have someone to chat all kinds of rubbish with).
7. Pour another Amarula on Ice or open another can of Castle.
8. Feel fire every now and again (if you can hold hand 10cm away from fire for 10 seconds then fine .. if you can hold it for longer ... add more charcoal and pour another Amarula on Ice or open another can of Castle)
9. By this time you would probably require the need to attend the loo's ...
10. Wash hands again...
11. Fetch nice 2 - 3 cm thick rump steak that has been marinated over night from fridge..
12. Get another Amarula on Ice or open another can of Castle.
13. Put steak on fire and sizzle for 5 minutes on each side.
14. Take steak of braai and swallow last bit of Amarula on Ice or Castle.
15. Dish up the meat, Garlic Rolls and Potato Salad. (Remember to use paper plates for ease of cleaning).
16. After supper ... get another Amarula (hic!) on ISCHE aor Can ofadsf CAsTLE!#$ (hic!)
17. Sit outshide ands enjoys nigSGH...nightssssssounds ....
18. Plan to arrives ats STIL? LITS when ranger puts in trees...
19. Go to bed ..

What do you usually eat for breakfast? We'll be in the Park soon and I'd like to know what to put on my shopping list.

A roll of cookies, bought the day before
Last we had was a assorted box. Strawberry flavour and chocolate

And at 11.00 a very late sunrise brekkie at the restaurant.

I never eat breakfast at home but I'm always starving early in the morning in the park, must be the fresh air
We usually eat left-over braai vleis from the previous evening, we always cook far too much. Fruit and cookies (Eat-sum-mores yummy) are great too.
Late morning, brunchtime, we stop at a picnic spot and hire a skottel and cook bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes and eggs, just a light brekkie you understand, usually washed down with the first Castle of the day

GP you got a little deepfreeze
We take everything from home, even frozen veggies
Did not have to buy anything from the shop other than cool drinks & some ice Even made our own bread