Travel Food Help Please

facebegone

This is probably a bit late now but we swear by tuna and cous-cous with a bit of pasta sauce... basically do the cous-cous with hot water for 5 mins or so, flake in a drained tin of tuna and add some pasta sauce or maybe some salad dressing... you only need hot water to make it!

ChrissieT_2

When we festival I always take a whole melon. If it's hot (!) it is so much more refreshing than your good old (by then bruised) apple. I take a small cutting board a knife and am the envy of the surrounding people - with whom I naturally share. If it's cold I take it home!

elaing

I am new to this, so not sure where to put this question! So sorry if I have it wrong.

We are going on a coach tour on Friday for a few days. As there is 4 of us (all adults, my mum, my brother, my boyfriend and I). We plan to take sandwiches etc with us. I was wondering if anyone had any moneysaving ideas for sweet treats/cakes we can nibble on whilst sitting in the freezing Highlands!! It be useful if these ideas could help me use up eggs I have.

Thanks,

elaine

Fruball

Fritata - cooked potatoes fried up with onions, cover with egg/milk mixture with the addition of salt... Once cold you can cut it into slices..

Mmmmmmm yummy - fancy some now actually!

zippychick

Hi Elain

Welcome to Old Style - absolutely the right place for the question!:j

I would make some flapjacks (keep for days if wrapped tight) I have made these many times - SO tasty and filling too (and easy) I just adapt to what i have in and the oats and nuts and seeds are filling

Some links which should help -

travel food help please (I'll merge this later once you get some more input )

muesli cereal bars

eggs eggs and more eggs

cheap healthy snacks

healthy snacks for kids

the irrelevant links :rotfl::D
caravan camping and holiday cookery (try saying that without your false teeth:rotfl:)

food to take on holiday in a caravan

self catering from your hotel room

self catering holiday on the cheap

cheap healthy snacks

healthy snacks for kids

I've just realised you will be on a coach, so the links about self catering etc won't apply but I'll leave them in case they help someone else

thanks
Zip

meritaten

hun, what could be more appropriate than...........Scotch Eggs! there is a recipe on food network for Scotch Eggs made with black pudding but I cant remember the chef - but if you search Scotch Eggs I am sure you will find them! they look absolutely gorgeous and fairly easy to make!
Frittata is always nice, and for dessert............little egg custard tarts!

the link for food network is
www.foodnetwork.co.uk

Paulie'sGirl

What about a quiche? You can chuck most bits and bobs in to make it flavourful. I use some of the below (not all at once!) though I always add dried herbs, grated cheese and sliced tomatoes - that's not to say you have to!

Sauteed onions (medium dice)
Any colour of peppers
Leeks
Broccoli
Spinach
Mushrooms
Bacon
Ham
Courgette
Odd ends of cheese (so feta and gruyere or whatever)

If you chuck the egg mixture of potatoes you have a frittata as suggested above.

Sweet things which sit well or get better with time are ginger cake or parkin, muffins, fruit cake, flapjacks, Twinks hobnobs.

Hope you have a great time!

PGxx

elaing

Thank you guys. It is a coach tour (mystery tour that they have now told us where we going!!) and we stay at a hotel and get our breakfast and dinner so suppose its mainly a snack for Friday trip up and probably a cake for Saturday..not sure we will be able to keep food for Sunday, so may need to just buy something..but often these coach trips stop at expensive places that arent particularly nice..suppose even on way up to Dingwall!
So thanks for ideas might make some quiche, dont have lots of stuff in.

Any recipes for fruit cake, as my bf LOVES fruit cake and it be nice for a treat. In fact he loves ANY cake!!!

Thanks

Elaine

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elaing wrote: »

Any recipes for fruit cake, as my bf LOVES fruit cake and it be nice for a treat. In fact he loves ANY cake!!!

Hi elaine,

This thread should help:

fruit cake

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socks_uk

Whenever we go on journeys we always pack-up some Warbartons teacakes. We have them with jam for breakfast and cheese for lunch. No need to worry about them not being in the fridge either! Have a good trip!