Breakfast
A traditional breakfast may include tea or coffee and millet porridge or bread. A traditional breakfast may also include some fruits or vegetables or grains (bread, millet, rice, ect.).
Lunch
Businesses and schools often close for the lunch hour so that people may eat at home with their families. Namibians will typically pray before every midday and evening meals. For lunch they will usually have any type of soup or salad that they can afford, tea, and bread, and or fish, and or grains.
Dinner
Plates (or dishes) are usually prepared ahead of time in the kitchen and are served all at once, so the family may spend more time together. There will be some meat (when possible), soup, salad, tea, and or mealie meal (cornmeal porridge) or mahangu.
Locally Grown Foods
Rural families grow their own crops such as maize, sorghum, and mahangu (millet). Rice is also very popular in urban, atleast in areas among those who can afford to buy it.
Food Traditions
Meat is often cooked at braais (barbecues) or included in potjiekos (“pot food,” any meal that is cooked in a three-legged cast-iron pot placed over a fire). Common snacks include biltong (a jerky made from a variety of meats), vetkoek (also called fatcakes, a type of fried dough), dried mopane worms (a kind of tree grub), and sometimes termites. Rural Namibians may also eat seasonal wild fruits and nuts. Tea (often rooibos, or "red bush tea") and coffee can be (and usually are) served throughout the day, when guests come, and with every meal. On special occasions, people will eat salads. Common salads include macaroni salad, carrot salad, rice salad, bean salad, potato salad, chicken salad, and beef salad.
