Load shedding can sometimes leave you and your family hanging without something to do or eat.
Sometimes the power cuts exactly when you are about to prepare lunch or supper. At this point you’re probably looking for ways to prepare food for your family, other times you only have about 30 minutes before load shedding.
Looking for shortcuts to make your meals is our new normal. What you can eat during load shedding: there are ways to prepare quick meals by changing your pantry and buying a lot of canned food and precooked meals.
According to What’s for dinner, you can do a braai with simple salads like:
Coleslaw:
Grated cabbage
Grated carrots
Mayonnaise
Garden Salad
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Onions
Croutons and cheese. (optional)
Potato salad:
Boiled potato/ put in a foil and on a braaing stand to cook
Mayonnaise
According to Youth village there are ways to cope when our trusted energy supplier throws us back to a stone age. To keep your sanity Youth village has recommended a few ideas you can do with your family:
- Board games are great bonding sessions with your family. Invest in games like monopoly, ludo, snakes & ladders, 30 seconds, scrabble, drafts and so many more.
- Do a little bit of spring cleaning for example, folding your closet, washing your shoes, and other parts of your house you haven’t gotten around to doing.
- Look for creative projects to do for example, painting, knitting, scrapbooking and other things you can do.
Also see: Activities to keep your children busy
