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Originally Posted by discoenduro
Anyone gone through Africa without cooking their own food? I'd like to leave my multifuel stove and fuel container at home to save on weight and space in the panniers and buy pre-cooked food as i go along. However,...
...in Africa, am i right in thinking food needs to be heated in order to kill bacteria and avoid high risk of gastro problems?
Thanks advance for your opinions,
Disco
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Yes. I bought a cooking kit and dumped it in Mauritania having not used it, to save weight/space. The downsides are:
1. You will eat an awful lot of chicken in West Africa.
2. You will spew (or intestinal equivalent) a few times. For me the hotspots in that department were Addis Ababa (only because the cook sneezed over my spag bol) and Accra (nothing to do with food I think - just some weird virus).
None of this was a problem really. Where's the fun if you haven't spent a few nights honking like an angry goose?
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