Sample Menus

During a camping safari, Duma Explorer provides three meals a day as well as afternoon snacks. We also provide all of your drinking water. After your game drive, a snack with tea or coffee will be waiting for you at the campsite. You will have a choice of fresh popcorn, peanuts, cake or sliced fruits. We have provided a few sample menus below.

Non-vegetarian Sample Menu

Appetizer
1. Vegetable or chicken soup
2. Cucumber, tomato and carrot salad

Main Course
1. Rice with a beef stew sauce
2. Fish fillet with a side of baked potatoes topped with a vegetable sauce
sauce 3. Chicken quiche with a side salad
4. Roasted chicken or beef with a side of cooked bananas and potatoes

Dessert
1. African pancake with honey
2. Seasonal fruits
3. Fried bananas topped with chocolate
4. Caramel custard

Vegetarian Sample Menu

Appetizer
1. Vegetable, carrot or cucumber soup with bread
2. Cucumber, tomato and carrot salad

Main Course
1. Vegetable quiche with mixed salad and fried potatoes
2. Rice with eggplant sauce with side of vegetables and avocado salad
3. Spaghetti with carrot and pea sauce with side of spinach and cucumber salad

Dessert
1. African pancake with honey
2. Seasonal fruits
3. Fried bananas topped with chocolate
4. Caramel custard

Tanzanian Food Sample Menu

Appetizer
1. Banana, pumpkin, or peanut soup with bread
2. Stuffed beef chapati

Main Courses
1. Ndizi Nyama: Cooked bananas mixed with beef or vegetables
Maharage Nazi: beans cooked in a coconut sauce
2. Wali Nyama: Spiced rice topped with a beef and tomato sauce
kichumbari: Cucumber, tomato and carrot salad
3. Viazi Mboga: potatoes topped with a vegetable coconut sauce

Dessert
1. Tanzanian pancake topped with honey
2. Seasonal fruits

The food varies in quality depending on the type of lodge you choose. The smaller, more private lodges have much better meals than the larger lodges. Picnic lunches are very similar to those on a camping safari. We have provided a sample lodge menu below.

Breakfast
Eggs, prepared any style, toast, potatoes, chicken or sausage, fruit, cake, juice, coffee and tea.
Lunch
Chicken or vegetable sandwich, hard-boiled egg, fruit, cake or chocolate, and juice.
Dinner
Soup, salad, your choice of fish or meat, rice, cake, tea and cofee.