Usage examples (35)

• But after a week's feeding on impoop, as they called the mealie-meal porridge which was their staple food at the mines, they began to pick up.
• One of the staples of South Africa, for example, is the mealie, which is nothing more or less than our own
• In other words, the decline was more rapid among staple foods (such as mealie meal) and less pronounced among refined foods.
• "unjustified price increases", especially on basic commodities such as mealie-meal, cooking oil, sugar and bread.