Travel Food Help Please

Seakay

I always took parkin on coach journeys - very filling, ginger helps with any coach-queasiness and the oatmeal would be very suitable for a Highland journey!
Here's a recipe:
http://britishfood.about.com/od/recipeindex/r/yorksparkin.htm
but a Google will find you lots of variations
Parkin is a great keeper - in fact it's best to keep it for 3 days -1 week before starting

elaing

Thank you guys, I am afraid I cheated in the end and have bought some cakes/crisps etc from a shop (ok more expensive and not as nice as hm but...)
Mum is going to make up 'pieces' for tomorrow and we will pack flasks for hot drinks. since rain and wind forecast. So at least we should save money on lunches tomorrow and cuppas out on saturday as coffee and cake prob all we need after cooked breakfast!

Thanks for being kind to a newbie (well new to posting I have browsed this forum for a long time!)

Elaine

curlytop12

any ideas for eating cheaply on hol?
eg,making use of kettle in hotel room for a little snack etc?
thanks:)

OrkneyStar

gem68 wrote: »

any ideas for eating cheaply on hol?
eg,making use of kettle in hotel room for a little snack etc?
thanks:)

Pot noodle, or those pasta snack things that supermarkets do.
Cup a soup (with bread to bulk out)
Ready made porridge (use half hot water half milk, might taste ok).
Smash (add grated cheese and mix in with the hot water)...cheesey potatoes!
Hot chocolate/tea/coffee obviously.
Sorry that is all I can think of, not very inspiring but would fill a hole if you were hungry enough!

LittleLauz

Those couscous satchets are good, they just need hot water.

valentina

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3229276
Have a look here, especially post 16 from zippychick

valk_scot

Go camping? Or a self-catering apartment? I can't remember the last time I stayed in a hotel on holiday. We like camping so it's easy enough to fully self cater then though I do tend to splash out a little on BBQ items and such then.

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When my friend and I did our 'Thelma and Louise' road trip in north eastern U.S 4 years ago she is a seasoned traveller and took with her a mini kettle ,powdered milk and two plastic plates knives and forks .We managed to have a great time by buying bits as we went along from a local supermarket ,cheese and bread or ham soon made decent lunches and most hotels/motels had a fridge which we made good use of .We would buy a cooked chicken and some salad bits and when we stayed overnight we would do our best to use a freezer block with which to use to keep stuff in a small cooler bag whist on the road. I took several packets of biscuits (ginger nuts are our favourites) and we also took a flask so we could make up a flask of coffee to drink for our elevenses.My pal June has gone on several 6 month trips around the world with her OH so she is brilliant at organising food.We spent a fraction of what it would have cost us if we had to eat out every night or lunchtime . We actually had dollar left over .breakfast was usually provided when we were on the road and it was a buffet stlye one .We would have extra fruit and rolls and muffins which we snuck out afterwards No one seemed to mind and it seems to be a normal thing over there.Being a pair of very inventive old dears we never went hungry and it certainly never cost us a great deal

tessie_bear

hi...if u are in this country morrisons do a salad bar which can be nice also cooked chickens.....when we have stayed in a hotel room with a mini fridge we have been known to take out the bottles nuts etc and put in our food...remembering to replace it in the morning

VJsmum

Most of my holidays are self catering - either in our touring caravan with all mod cons or in rented houses.

But occasionally we have had long road trip type holidays and with 2 young children we had to be fairly inventive.

It depends where you are going but if you have a fridge then it's a godsend, take a small cool bag and a couple of ice packs and a decent knife - one for chopping one for spreading. I buy a pack of polystyrene bowls and plates, and plastic spoons and kitchen roll from supermarkets when I arrive. Breakfast can then be cereal bought from supermarkets with milk kept in fridge (i also take my own teabags bu that's cos i drink rooibos tea that you can't always get - i even took some to south africa, talk about coals to newcastle :rotfl:), juice for kids from mini cartons. Lunch is either made up sandwiches from subway type shops or buying bread and meat or chees (hence coolbag), crisps, fruit etc all from supermarkets.

As someone said, ready cooked chickens with salad bar salads can be great for either lunch or dinner (i have an abiding memory of my BIL ripping apart a whole chicken and handing lumps out with a chunk of baguette on a walk, on what is now and forever known as Uncle Alan's bridge - one of the best picnics i have ever had)

(plastic tumblers and corkscrews come in handy too )

For me, i would rather eat like this and splash out on a decent meal out occasionally than to try to eat out cheaply all the time.