Kenyan Weekly Food Menu TimeTable: Breakfast, Lunch, dinner meals, eat healthier

typical kenyan meals food menu plan

Meal plan and Weekly food timetable on what meal to prepare for your family. For, singles, this menu will be of value. It comprises of typical Kenyan meals diet for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner/Supper.

Kenyan Ugali meal, among the most common foods in kenya
Kenyan Ugali meal, among the most common foods in Kenya/Photo

When I was a kid, my mum used to ask us every day what we wanted to eat. It is true that in most families, kids too have a say on what meals are to be prepared. But sometimes you will have to take control to ensure that your family eats healthy.

For singles, making a decision on what to prepare for Breakfast, lunch, dinner/supper can be challenging as you have No one to help you when you run out of ideas on what to cook. This timetable will therefore come in handy.

PDF of Weekly Meal Timetable

For Kenya Shillings 212, you can download a filled pdf of the weekly timetable from: Kenyan Meal Timetable PDF, print it, and stick it on your kitchen wall. You can also choose to save pdf of the timetable in your phone. The timetable that you will download comes with photos of the food.

Timetable of weekly meal/photo

Kenyan Weekly Food Menu Table: Food list for  your  home menu

What follows is a week’s meal timetable to help you make a quick decision on what to eat. Dinner can also be used to mean supper.

Monday Meals

  • Breakfast: Tea or coffee with toasted bread
  • Lunch: White rice with lentils OR pasta with beef stew.
  • Dinner: Ugali, Sukuma wiki and beef stew OR with fish.

Tuesday Meals

  • Breakfast: Tea or porridge or milk with sweet potatoes.
  • Lunch: Githeri OR mukimo
  • Dinner: Chapati with beef stew, potatoes and green peas.
Nyama choma meal
Nyama choma meal/Photo

Wednesday Meals

  • Breakfast: Tea or milk with whole bread or groundnuts.
  • Lunch: Ugali, vegetables and eggs.
  • Dinner: Rice with liver stew.

Thursday Meals

  • Breakfast: Tea or coffee with mandazi or sausage.
  • Lunch: Githeri mixed with potatoes with cabbage. OR pasta with lentils
  • Dinner: ugali, vegetables with fried chicken. OR with fried matumbo and kachumbari
Kenyan Githeri Meal
Kenyan Githeri Meal/Photo

Friday Meals

  • Breakfast: Tea with yams (nduma) or cassava or with boiled maize
  • Lunch: Matoke with matumbo or mashed potatoes with peas.
  • Dinner: chapati with green gram.

Saturday Meals

  • Breakfast: Tea and pancakes OR with sausages, or scones.
  • Lunch: White rice with beans OR spaghetti with meat stew.
  • Dinner: Ugali, sukuma wiki, and avocado

Sunday Meals

  • Breakfast: Tea with bread and fried eggs. OR with samosas
  • Lunch: Ugali, vegetables, and fish/omena/chicken.
  • Dinner: Pilau
Kenyan Breakfast Chapati food
Kenyan Breakfast Chapati Food/Photo

Fruits: Fruits are to be taken in between meals if you can afford

Water: Take water at least not that 3 liters per day.

Ingredients: Some ingredients that you might be interested to accompany or add to your meals include pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, chili, avocado,

Recipes: Recipe for all the above-mentioned foods is available on the meal page

Breakfast: For Breakfast, you can use your preferred beverage.

99%  of my breakfasts consist of White Coffee and Brown Bread smeared with Prestige Margarine. Once in a while Mandazi. I try to operate within my minimal budget.

Kenyan sukuma Wiki meal, most common
Kenyan sukuma Wiki meal, most common/Photo

Recipes

Learn how to prepare the listed meals below through this category:  Kenyan Meals Recipes.

  • Biriani
  • Chapati
  • Chicken Tikka Masala
  • Kuku wa Kupaka
  • Local Beef  Stew
  • Maharagwe va Nazi
  • Mandazi Recipe
  • Matoke
  • Mbaazi za Nazi
  • Omena Recipe
  • Pilau
  • Roasted Chicken with Garlic Butter and Vegetables
  • Roasted Rack of Lamb
  • Sambusa
  • Tomato Sauce
  • Ugali na Sukuma Wiki
  • Wali wa Kukaanga

Finally,  planning on what your family should eat is a vital part of life. There are different ways to go about it. Using our timetable is one of them. If you have some health complications or diseases like Cancer or Diabetes, you need to consult your health practitioner on the recommended diet.

Going to live in the US? You can find American meal plans on weekly eating.

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15 responses

  1. Valentine Avatar
    Valentine

    Very helpful

  2. Thanks sana for this. Very helpful.

  3. Ann Kanini Avatar
    Ann Kanini

    Thank you so much.You are a life saver😊.

  4. Good

  5. I deed this is perfect menu

  6. James Likosi Avatar
    James Likosi

    Thanks very much.From now on going to the kitchen is gonna be fun for me.My lifestyle is made easier.

  7. virginia Avatar
    virginia

    I think this gonna work on my side

  8. Thank you for making my work easy

  9. Joselyn Carey Avatar
    Joselyn Carey

    Thank you very much. This is very helpful

  10. Very helpful thanks.

  11. Thanks,this was really helpful

  12. Thank you. I can work with this

  13. This menu favours central region .when you talk of githeri and mukimo really. Githeri also known as nyoyo is only taken on Saturday after the sabbath

  14. I needed this

  15. MERCY RINTARY Avatar
    MERCY RINTARY

    Has been helpful

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