Food and Water

If you are an experienced self-catering camper then this may not be of use to you; but if this is a first time experience, then we hope it will help! If staying at the Bandas we have chefs to do the work for you but the ideas listed below are still useful.  We also have suggested recipes with ingredients to bring listed below.

Water is the most important item; plan on a minimum of 5 litres of drinking water per person per day.  We also suggest bringing at least one large 25 litre jerrycan of tap water for washing up and sponge bathing. If staying at the Bandas you need only bring drinking water.

For meals, you want quick and easy, one or two pot or pan meals where possible. It is also a great idea to take up ready made meals that just need reheating, especially for the evening dinner on the night of arrival.

Below you’ll find a suggested meal plan for a 2 night stay at either one of our Bandas or one of our campsites.  The only difference is that at the campsites you will also need to bring all the cooking and eating utensils whereas at the bandas these are provided for you.

Drinks other than water are your preference – bring 2 or 3 packets of juice, soft drinks, beers, spirits and wines as you like.

Arriving in time for lunch, we suggest a sandwich based meal so no need to cook.  Bring bread, cold meats or cheeses and vegetables as you prefer to make sandwiches with some easily portable fruits like oranges, apples, bananas and melons.  For dinner we suggest that you make a stew or curry at home before you travel; lots of vegetables and a meat of your choice.  Freeze the stew after you’ve cooked it in a pot that can travel with you and be put onto a burner or fire to heat up.  This makes dinner really quick and easy.

Fruits again are very easy.  Bring oatmeal with a jar of honey and the UHT milk. Use the remainder of the sandwich bread for toast with margarine or butter.  Eggs travel easily as do tins of baked beans. Sausages or bacon should be eaten today if you bring them and make sure they are frozen when you leave home.  Don’t forget tea and/or coffee and sugar.  For lunch we suggest a salad – lettuce, tomatoes, avocado for example – with a balsamic vinegar instead of a complicated dressing and pieces of chicken that you precooked at home and eat cold.  Dinner can be an easy pasta dish.  The pasta of your choice and then make a sauce from tinned tomatoes, garlic, onions and a jar of pesto sauce.  You can then add what you prefer into this – a tin of tuna fish, or extra vegetables like baby marrow or aubergines, or beef/pork mince as you prefer.  If you like something sweet then chocolate bars are the easiest to carry.

Breakfast again, if you had fruits and toast on day two then have eggs and oatmeal on day three.  Have some snacks to last you the later morning, crisps, nuts, popcorn etc.  as you start to head home and we recommend stopping off for lunch at any one of the restaurants in Nanyuki.