[1/28 12:17] Ria Pieterse: What to eat?
The forum trips are enjoyable as they respect your family for joining. Bad language and dirty jokes are not present. I have found that most of the men and women on the forum trips are family-friendly people who respect God for His Almighty in our lives and in nature.
Food supply:
Last year in Botswana:
We found in Maun, grocery stores, clean and tidy, you do not have to drive your grocery store and freezer full of raw meat, fresh vegetables and fruits, you can buy EVERYTHING there.
In Maun is a Spar, Riley's Garage Shop, Choppies, Butcher's Boys, etc. There are also restaurants to choose from. I looked at the village and town maps in Botswana on the internet to see if there are any shops in the places we go.
Botswana and Namibia prohibit any raw meat and dairy products, eggs, fruits and some vegetables from South Africa.
At the Border posts they can confiscate it from you, as well as in Botswana we found "Vet fences" where they sometimes check what you've got in your fridge or freezer. At Tommie Watkins, they even took an open box with long-life milk! Probably thirsty!.
Bring plenty of fresh drinking water and personal water use, if you go to remote areas (Wetwipes is a good substitute if the water isn't close by), you get bottled water for sale, if there are shops at garages. For 7 days, 130 liters of drinking water is enough for 2 people. This excludes drinking water. You save water as long as you can.
(The most important thing is those Jerry cans with gasoline or diesel, no petrol garages everywhere, so fill up if you get, you don't drive past a garage.)
Buy Botswana Eco Bully beef, there are ordinary and Chilli flavor .. you won't find a better quality canned meat anywhere.
Ask our Patrol Mechanic, Graham Cumming to let you know how a Patrol's "microwave" / lukewarm oven works, we tried it and it works great. We reheat all our pre-cooked meals in it along the way.
Pies, jaffles, ham and cheese toast, cooked chicken portions, meatballs, viennas, cheese russians, last night's leftover roast meat and roast bread, cooked mutton slices, wrap everything seperately in foil and heat it in the lukewarm oven ...: lol: .. look for a place under your Patrol's bonnet where you can put your packet of food so it doesn't fall off or fall out. It 's frozen from the freezer (we only have a freezer on our travels). When it's time to eat, you have something hot to eat, with no extra fuel for cooking or a hassle. A quick hot meal along the way, no dishes! Pack the parcels on their sides in your freezer.
Fruit juices in boxes, safari salads in boxes, few instant sauce packets, cup a soup, a few cans of vegetables and fruits, custard, long-life milk, nuts and peanuts, as well as dry fruit mixes, chips and salt biscuits, sweet cookies. Boxes and tins can be squeezed flat, it works better than glass bottles, which you have to drive along. Remember the dishwashing soap and cloth.
For breakfast Coffee and Rusks, bring your hot water bottle and buy eg. Ricoffy, Enrista, Milo, Cuppachino, Hot Chocolate, Tea.. convenient in pouches. You can buy the measured units in grocery stores or at wholesale packaging stores, sugar strips, butter and jam, milk triangles, as you find in restaurants, it works great when you are traveling.
"Blikbeker" and plates, cutlery, no porcelain or glass for us. One pot with thick bottom, pan, kettle, sharp knife, braai grill, can opener, newspaper and matches / lighter, small gas plate with cans of gas. Doom for repelling insects.
Enjoy!
Regards
Ria Pieterse (with Dawid - Ossewa)
[1/28 12:21] Ria Pieterse: Wat om te eet?
Die forumtrips, is aangenaam, want dit respekteer en eerbiedig jou familie ook om mee saam te gaan. Ongure taal en vuilgrappies is nie teenwoordig nie. Ek het gevind dat die meeste ouens en vrouens op die forumtrips, familievaste mense is wat God eerbiedig om Sy Almag in ons lewens en die natuur te respekteer.
Kosvoorraad:
Verlede jaar na Botswana:
Ons het in Maun, kruidenierswinkels gekry, skoon en netjies, jy hoef nie jou kruidenierskas en vrieskas vol rouvleis, vars groente en vrugte daarheen aan te ry nie, jy kan ALLES daar aankoop.
In Maun is 'n Spar, Riley's Garagewinkel, Choppies, Butchers Boys, ens. Daar is restaurante ook te kies en te keur. Ek het die dorpskaarte in Botswana op internet bekyk of daar winkels op die plekkke is waarheen ons gaan.
Botswana en Namibië verbied enige rou vleis en suiwelprodukte, eiers, vrugte en sommige groente vanaf Suid-Afrika.
By die Grensposte kan hul dit van jou konfiskeer, asook in Botswana het ons "Vet-fences" gekry waar hul soms gekyk het wat jy in jou koel- of vrieskas saamry. By Tommie Watkins, het hul selfs 'n oop boks met langlewe melk gevat! Seker ook maar dors of moedswillig gewees.
Vat genoeg vars drinkwater en selfsorgwater saam indien jy na afgeleë dele gaan, (Wetwipes is 'n goeie plaasvervanger as daar die water naby is nie), jy kry gebottelde water te koop, as daar winkels by garages is. Vir 7 dae is 130 Liter gebruikswater genoeg vir 2 mense. Dit sluit drinkwater uit. Jy is steeds spaarsamig met jou watergebruik.
(Die belangrikste is daardie Jerrykanne met petrol of diesel, nie orals is petrolgarages met voorraad nie, so maak vol as jy kry, jy ry nie verby 'n garage nie.)
Koop vir jou Botswana Eco Boeliebeef in blikkies, daar is gewone en Chilligeur, ..'n beter kwaliteit geblikte vleis kry jy nêrens nie.
Vra vir ons Patrol Mechanic, Graham Cumming om jou in te lig hoe 'n Patrol se "microwave"/ lou oond werk, ons het dit probeer en dit werk uitstekend. Ons het al ons vooraf gaargemaakte maaltye daarin warmgemaak padlangs.
Pasteie, jaffels, ham en kaas toastbroodjies, gaar hoenderporsies, frikkadelle, viennas, kaasrussians, gisteraand se oorskiet braaivleis en braaibroodjies, gaar skaapboudskywe, draai alles apart in foelie toe en verwarm dit in die lou -oond...
....soek 'n plekkie onder jou Patrol se bonnet waar jy jou pakkie kos kan neersit, sodat dit nie af- of uitval nie. Dit word gevries uitgehaal uit die vrieskas (ons het net 'n vrieskas op ons reise). Wanneer dit tyd is om te eet, het jy iets warms om te eet, sonder ekstra brandstof vir gaarmaak of 'n gesukkel. 'n Kits warm ete langs die pad, geen skottelgoed! Pak die pakkies op hul sykante in jou vrieskas.
Vrugtesappe in boksies, safari slaaie in boksies, cup a soup, 'n paar kleinblikkies groente en vrugte, vla, langlewe melk, neute en grondbone, asook droë vrugtemengsels, chips en soutbeskuitjies, soetkoekies. Boksies en blikke kan platgedruk word, dit werk beter as glasbottels, wat jy moet saamry.
Vir ontbyt Koffie en Beskuit, vat jou warmwaterfles saam en koop bv. Ricoffy, Enrista, Milo, Cuppachino, Hot Chocolate, Tee..gerieflik in sakkies saam. Jy kan die afgemete eenhede in kruidenierswinkels koop of by groothandel verpakkingswinkels suikersakkies, botter en konfyt, melkdriehoekies, soos jy in restaurante kry, dit werk uitstekend as jy op reis is.
Blikbekers en borde, eetgerei, vir gebruik. Een kastrol met dikboom, ketel, pan, skerpmes, braairooster en braaitang, blikoopmaker, koerantpapier en vuurhoutjies/ lighter, klein gasplaat met blikkies gas. Doom vir goggas.
Groete
Ria Pieterse ( Dawid - Ossewa)
but I travel solo 
