Sample Food on Kilimanjaro

The menu on Kilimanjaro is designed to ensure your food intake matches your level of exertion. It will provide you with a good balance of protein, carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables. When you are at altitude you could start to feel nauseous and your appetite may be suppressed, so the meals prepared at high altitude usually contain more carbohydrates and less protein to help you to digest your food.

Your meals will be prepared by your cooks on Kilimanjaro and the food will be carried by your porters.

A typical day’s menu will include the following:

NON-VEGETARIAN 


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

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


Appetizer


1. Banana, pumpkin, or peanut soup with bread 

2. Stuffed beef chapati


Main Courses


1. NdiziNyama: Cooked bananas mixed with beef or vegetables 
Maharage Nazi: beans cooked in a coconut sauce 

2. WaliNyama: Spiced rice topped with a beef and tomato sauce 
kichumbari: Cucumber, tomato and carrot salad 

3. ViaziMboga: potatoes topped with a vegetable coconut sauce 


Dessert


1. Tanzanian pancake topped with honey 

2. Seasonal fruits

Snacks

You may wish to bring your own snacks to provide well deserved treat, or energy boost! Chocolate is generally the best answer and if it has nuts in then even better, but whatever you choose make sure it is a favourite treat and not a ‘power bar’, or ‘energy gel’. If you are suffering from altitude sickness then your appetite may be suppressed and these snacks may become a good supplement to your meals, so make sure it is something that you enjoy eating! A powdered energy drink such as lucozade sport is also a good source of energy and will help with the taste of the water if you have been using iodine tablets.