Travel Food Help Please

climbgirl

I'd second JackieO's suggestion of buying cheap bits and pieces as you go. I love buying local bread and cheese for lunch, picking up seasonal fruit and things like that. It's so much cheaper than eating out in restaurants for every meal and you get to experience some of the local food rather than bringing snacks and things from home.

One of my favourite things to do abroad is visit the local supermarket and look for all the weird and wonderful delights to try!

Keeping a good knife handy helps, as does cutlery. But you can always pick up disposables if you don't fancy carrying things like that with you.

VfM4meplse

I always take crackers, crisps and dried fruit and nuts just in case as my diet is quiet restrictive, and top that up with fresh fruit which is almost universally available. I really resent paying over the odds for a sub-standard meal I don't want, but in a hotel it can be very useful to have at least one meal a day catered. M&S lunches to go are handy if you are in England or Eire and many of them are vegan - hurrah!

madnotstupid

If you are going to eat out it's usually much cheaper to eat out at lunchtime rather than in the evening - have your main meal in the day and go for bread, cheese, cooked chicken, picnic as a lighter meal later on. seems to work both in the UK or abroad.

In some European countries a lot of restaurants do a set menu / menu du jour /menu del dia - a limited choice and often smaller portion, but usually good value. i know we have set menus in some places here but somehow they're not such good value.

curlytop12

JackieO wrote: »

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

sounds like a great adventure1

curlytop12

aah,good thinking,we've got bed and full english brekkie,thinking if we have a late one,then out for a lunch,then bread/cheese/ham and fruit for the evening.plus biscuits and crisps/bottles of sqash/water.
cheers everyone:T

Bronnie

A tube of this is cheap and handy.

http://www.primula.co.uk/tube_cheese_amp_chive.html

Don't need to refrigerate until opened, then doesn't take up much space in the mini bar fridge! A little goes a long way, so a squirt on a cracker or a bit of crusty bread is nice with a glass of supermarket wine!

zippychick

valentina wrote: »

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

Aren't you just a wee legend!!!!!! :j:D thank you!!!! Here's the linkies :A

caravan camping and holiday cookery

travel food help please

travelling - food to keep me going

Healthyish meals using a kettle

self catering from your hotel room

these threads should also have loads of ideas for you. Ill merge this later on

Zip

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gem68 wrote: »

sounds like a great adventure1

It was amazing we got lost on a back road in Virginia and found this cafe/roadhouse .In we went to ask for some directions and it was full of huge 'Hells Angels'who were facinated that two dotty old English ladies were touring around their country.They surrounded our car with their bikes and showed us the way back to the main highway with great courtesy.Lovely young men who certainly didn't intimidate us at all.We almost felt 'presidential' with our cavalcade.:D At all times we were met with great friendliness in the US I think it was because they thought we were barking mad .Had a fabulous trip that will stay in my memory forever.

Ilona

I've just come back from 11 days in Scotland, staying in youth hostels and camping. I took all my food with me, so ate out of the back of my car. Youth hostels have kitchens with all the equipment you need.

There is quite a lot of tinned food you can eat cold, mixed bean salad, tuna fish or any fish, new potatoes, rice pudding, fruit, sweetcorn. Instead of margarine spread for sandwiches I used peanut butter, ok for a week without refrigeration.

Could you take a toaster with you and basic plate and cutlery? Might give you more options.
Ilona

FatVonD

JackieO wrote: »

It was amazing we got lost on a back road in Virginia and found this cafe/roadhouse .In we went to ask for some directions and it was full of huge 'Hells Angels'who were facinated that two dotty old English ladies were touring around their country.They surrounded our car with their bikes and showed us the way back to the main highway with great courtesy.Lovely young men who certainly didn't intimidate us at all.We almost felt 'presidential' with our cavalcade.:D

I can believe that, despite looking a bit scary I've always found bikers to be lovely, peaceable people. I used to frequent a bikers pub that had live bands and I always felt a lot more comfortable there than I ever have in chavvy pubs!